Some bureaucratic paperwork between the Santa Fe district attorney and New Mexico’s Board of Finance sheds light on possible, long-awaited next steps prosecutors may take in the fatal shooting on the set of “Rust” last year.
Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies’ emergency request for $635,500 from the state to prosecute gives the first indications of the scale of any criminal case for the killing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the low-budget Western.
In a document viewed by the Los Angeles Times, Carmack-Altwies said she may prosecute up to four people, each requiring their own jury trial — including the well-known actor Alec Baldwin, who authorities said discharged the weapon that accidentally killed the 42-year-old mother of one and injured director Joel Souza.
