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‘Rust’ armorer faced tearful testimony and claims of ‘unprofessional’ handling of guns in first week of trial

Several people took the stand throughout the first week of Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s trial, which included emotional testimony from the film’s assistant director.

Halls, who also served as the film’s safety coordinator, pleaded no contest to negligent use of a deadly weapon last year and as part of a plea deal was sentenced to six months of unsupervised probation. Defense attorney Jason Bowles said in his opening statements that his client served as both armorer and a props assistant, which distracted her from being able to sufficiently oversee the weapons during filming. In a second round of questioning from the day of the shooting, played for jurors, Gutierrez-Reed admits that she did not have much official training and that most of her job opportunities had come directly from her stepfather, Thell Reed, a famous Hollywood armorer.

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