By The Big Magazine Staff
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March for her role in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, and was sentenced to 18 months in prison Monday by a New Mexico district court judge.
Gutierrez-Reed has spent more than a month in a county jail awaiting sentencing for the 2021 incident on the set of “Rust.” During filming, Alec Baldwin was rehearsing a scene with a revolver when the gun went off with live ammunition, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin, claimed he never pulled the trigger, was indicted by a grand jury for involuntary manslaughter in January with a trial set for this summer, according to the Associated Press.
The sentence was issued by Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer. Prosecutors argued for Gutierrez-Reed to receive the full sentence due to her “recklessness” and “complete and total failure to accept responsibility for her actions.”
Gutierrez-Reed’s verdict and trial were a glimpse of what Baldwin could face when his trial starts July 9.
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