Source : Perth Now news
A movie armourer convicted in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the western movie Rust has been released from a New Mexico prison after completing an 18-month sentence.
Prison records show Hannah Gutierrez-Reed signed out of the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility in Grants on Friday to return home to Bullhead City, Arizona, on parole related to her involuntary manslaughter conviction in the death of Halyna Hutchins in 2021.
Gutierrez-Reed also is being supervised under terms of probation for a separate conviction on a charge of unlawfully carrying a gun into a licensed liquor establishment.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer for Rust, was pointing a gun at Hutchins during a rehearsal on a movie set outside Santa Fe when the revolver went off, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.
A jury convicted Gutierrez-Reed of involuntary manslaughter in March in a trial overseen by Mary Marlowe Sommer, who later sentenced her to the maximum 18-month penalty.
Gutierrez-Reed has an appeal of the conviction pending in a higher court.
Jurors acquitted her of allegations she tampered with evidence in the Rust investigation.
Prosecutors blamed Gutierrez-Reed for unwittingly bringing live ammunition onto the set of Rust and for failing to follow basic gun safety protocols.
Gutierrez-Reed carried a gun into a downtown Santa Fe bar where firearms are prohibited weeks before Rust began filming.
An involuntary manslaughter charge against Baldwin was dismissed at trial in 2024 on allegations that police and prosecutors withheld evidence from the defence.
The filming of Rust was completed in Montana.
The western was released in cinemas in May.
