Baldwin

and assistant gunsmith

Hanna Gutierrez-Reid

will be charged with two counts by the end of January, The Hollywood Reporter clarifies.

citing Santa Fe District Attorney

Mary Cormack-Oltwiss

.



The prosecutor's office, as noted by The New York Times, emphasized that Baldwin was obliged to ensure proper inspection of weapons and ammunition and that he should not have pointed the gun at someone.



"After a careful study of the evidence and the laws of the state of New Mexico, I have come to the conclusion that there is enough evidence to initiate criminal proceedings against Alec Baldwin and other members of the "Rusty" film crew," the prosecutor said.



Such a late decision to file charges (one and a half years have passed since the incident) was explained by the Santa Fe prosecutor's office because they only recently received the final report of experts on the shooting.

In addition to Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reid, the defendant in the criminal case is assistant director

David Golz

, who handed the gun to Baldwin and assured him that the weapon was not loaded.

Golza will be charged with negligent use of a deadly weapon.



Alec Baldwin and Anna Gutierrez-Reid have not yet commented on the announcement of the Santa Fe prosecutor's office.



The incident that killed Ukrainian cameraman Galina Hutchins and injured director

Joel Sows

, took place on October 21, 2021, on the set of the western "Rust".

During the shooting of one of the scenes of the film, Baldwin fired a weapon that was supposed to be loaded with blank cartridges.

One of the bullets hit 42-year-old Galina Hutchins.

She was taken by helicopter to the University of New Mexico Hospital, where doctors pronounced the woman dead.

Galina Hutchins

  • The deceased Galina Gatchins, as stated on her website, was born in Ukraine and grew up "on a Soviet military base behind the Arctic Circle."

    In Kyiv, she graduated from the Faculty of Journalism, after that she worked as an investigative journalist shooting documentaries in Europe.

    In 2015, she received a cinematographic education in the USA and started her career in Hollywood.

    In 2019, the magazine of the Society of Cinematographers of America included Gutchins as one of the rising stars of film.