The criminal prosecution of Alec Baldwin begins on Tuesday 7/9/24
Troubling details soon started to emerge about the film’s set. There were two accidental firings of blank rounds before the accidental discharge that killed Hutchins, and several members of the camera crew had resigned the night before the incident, citing, among other things, safety concerns. The first assistant director, who is in charge of safety on a film set, had been fired from another movie two years earlier after an accidental gun discharge. The armorer, who maintains control of all of the film’s firearms — and there were a lot, as this was a western — was just 24 years old; she’d done the job only once before. While the Sheriff’s Department was continuing its investigation and Carmack-Altwies was considering her options, Baldwin was sinking into despair. He was grieving over having accidentally taken a young woman’s life and coming to terms with the cascading collateral damage to his own life. He was losing jobs, and to make matters worse, in early November, the lawyers representing Hutchins’s widower, Matthew — now the single parent of a 9-year-old boy — sent him a “preservation of evidence” letter, effectively putting him on notice that he was going to be party to a lawsuit. (NY Times)