New Mexico prosecutors are expected to bring criminal charges as early as this week in the accidental deadly shooting by Alec Baldwin of a cinematographer on the set of "Rust," a low-budget western movie.
Baldwin, the movie's star, was rehearsing a scene in an old wooden church on a ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico, with Halyna Hutchins, the film's cinematographer, and Joel Souza, the director. Hutchins, who was in charge of photography, wanted to line up a camera angle to capture Baldwin slowly pulling his prop gun — a vintage Colt .45 revolver — from his leather holster and aiming it at the camera.
The gun went off, firing a bullet that pierced Hutchins' chest, then lodged into Souza's shoulder. Hutchins died that afternoon; Souza recovered from his injury.
