Incident takes place in southern state of New Mexico, says US media<\/strong> Incident takes place in southern state of New Mexico, says US media United States actor Alec Baldwin discharged a \u201cprop firearm\u201d on a movie set, killing the director of photography for the film he was working on and wounding its director, the US media reported on Thursday evening. Quoting Santa Fe County Sheriff\u2019s Office in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[12948,12949],"yoast_head":"\n
\n<\/a>United States actor Alec Baldwin discharged a \u201cprop firearm\u201d on a movie set, killing the director of photography for the film he was working on and wounding its director, the US media reported on Thursday evening.
\nQuoting Santa Fe County Sheriff\u2019s Office in the southern state of New Mexico, the media reported cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, and film director Joel Souza, 48, were shot with a prop gun during the filming of the Western film Rust, in which Baldwin is starring.
\nHutchins was airlifted to the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, where she was pronounced dead, while Souza is undergoing treatment for his injuries at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe, the sheriff\u2019s office said.
\nAccording to police, no charges have been filed so far, but the witnesses continue to be interviewed by detectives.
\nMeanwhile, a spokesperson for Baldwin stressed there was an accident on the set involving the misfire of a prop gun with blanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"