“All options are on the table … No one has been ruled out at this point,” Carmack-Altwies said, referring to potential criminal charges. He held the short press conference with the Santa Fe district attorney, Mary Carmack-Altwies. And I think there are some safety issues that need to be addressed by the industry and possibly by the state of New Mexico,” Mendoza said. I think there was some complacency on this set. “I think the industry has had a record recently of being safe. Mendoza also confirmed that his office was investigating reports of informal incidents of target practice having taken place on or near the set before the incident, and rumors of crew members drinking the night before. The actor was also a producer on the movie, where filming was shut down and has not resumed since Hutchins’s death. Mendoza said more interviews still needed to be conducted, including a possible additional interview with Baldwin, whom the sheriff described as “cooperative”. He refused to speculate, when questioned by reporters, about what happened to result in a single bullet evidently killing one and then injuring another person. Possible additional live rounds, including the bullet the authorities believe killed Hutchins, will be submitted to the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Virginia, confirmed the sheriff. The third one, handed to Baldwin on the assumption it was safe, was a. Mendoza also said that officials recovered about 600 items of evidence, including three firearms and approximately 500 rounds of ammunition from the set of the desert western that was being filmed. The single, apparently live round that injured Souza and probably also killed Hutchins was found in Souza’s shoulder after he was treated for his injuries at a local medical center, Mendoza said when giving updates on the investigation relating to last week’s tragedy on the set in New Mexico. He added that his investigators believe they have also recovered “the spent shell casing from the bullet that was fired from the gun”. 02:23 Single bullet likely caused death after Alec Baldwin fired gun on set, police say – videoįilm-makers showed “complacency” about safety on set, the sheriff said initial inquiries had led the authorities to believe.
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