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‘Rust’ Director Joel Souza Says He Didn’t See Who Handed Gun To Alec Baldwin Before Fatal Shooting, Recalls Being Wounded And Thinking “Nothing Made Sense”


Souza was injured in the 2021 incident on the set of the movie.

Rust director Joel Souza took the stand today in the trial of armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, telling the court that he did not see who gave Alec Baldwin the firearm in the fatal shooting incident. “I didn’t see anybody give it to him,” Souza said, emphasizing that there was “an enormous amount going on” in the New Mexico church set at the time. “I know I got a behind her to try to see on the monitor, and there was an incredibly loud bang, that was not like the half and quarter loads you hear on a set.

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