Newly released Santa Fe County sheriff’s investigative reports on “Rust” highlight a flurry of messages Alec Baldwin sent in the days after the accidental fatal shooting of a cinematographer as the actor grappled to make sense of what happened that day — and if he would face charges.
Following the tragedy, Baldwin reached out to the low-budget western’s prop master, a camera operator who was in the old wooden church that day, the sheriff’s detective investigating the incident and the husband of Halyna Hutchins, who died after a bullet fired from a prop gun pierced her chest.
The attorney for Hutchins ultimately sent Baldwin a “cease and desist” letter, according to a report that was part of a 551-page investigative file released Friday by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office.
