Family Of Halyna Hutchins Files Lawsuit Against Alec Baldwin, Producers In ‘Rust' Shooting Death

By CBSLA Staff, CBS Los Angeles:

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – The family of Halyna Hutchins — a cinematographer who was shot and killed on a New Mexico movie set last year — has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin and the film’s producers and certain crewmembers.

Attorneys held a news conference in Los Angeles Tuesday to announce the lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of Hutchins’ widower, Matthew Hutchins, and their young son, Andros, claiming the “Rust” production company “breached the most basic rules of firearm use on a film production.”

On the afternoon of Oct. 21, on the set of the Western “Rust,” just outside Santa Fe, a single live round from a Pietta Colt .45 revolver fired by Baldwin struck and killed Hutchins and wounded the film’s director, 48-year-old Joel Souza.

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