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By Felicity Ripper with wires

Alec Baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter. Here's how the Rust shooting unfolded and what the charge means

Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin was on the set of his new film Rust when the prop gun he was holding went off, killing a cinematographer and wounding a director. 

A New Mexico prosecutor has now announced she will charge Baldwin and armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed with involuntary manslaughter, after more than a year of investigation into the October 2021 shooting on a film set.

Baldwin last year sought to clear his name by suing people involved in handling and supplying the loaded gun that was handed to him on set.

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