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Alec Baldwin pleads not guilty to new charge in fatal shooting on Rust film set

Actor to appear in New Mexico over death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins nearly a year after similar charges were dropped

They brought the case before the grand jury in Santa Fe earlier this month, alleging that Baldwin caused Hutchins’ death either by negligence or “total disregard or indifference” for safety. Baldwin, who also served as a co-producer on the western drama, was pointing a gun at Hutchins during an October 2021 rehearsal when the weapon fired, hitting her and wounding the film’s director, Joel Souza. But an independent forensic test commissioned by prosecutors concluded that Baldwin would have had to have pulled the trigger of the revolver for it to have fired the live round that struck Hutchins in the chest and killed her.

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