ALEC Baldwin is being sued by Halyna Hutchins' family over the "reckless" shooting death on the Rust film set.
Hutchins, the director of photography, was fatally shot while director-writer Joel Souza was injured when Baldwin discharged a prop firearm on the set on October 21, 2021.
The suit claims Baldwin and the other defendants in the case "failed to perform industry standard safety checks and follow basic gun safety rules while using real guns to produce the movieRust, with fatal consequences."
"Halyna Hutchins deserved to live, and the Defendants had the power to prevent her death if they had only held sacrosanct their duty to protect the safety of every individual on a set where firearms were present instead of cutting corners on safety procedures where human lives were at stake, rushing to stay on schedule and ignoring numerous complaints of safety violation," the lawsuit continued.
The suit was filed on behalf of Hutchins' husband, Matthew, and their son Halyna.
Along with Baldwin, the family is also suing El Dorado Pictures, Rust Movie Productions, Short Porch Picture and several others.
The Sun exclusively reported last October that Baldwin could be hit with civil charges over the film set shooting.
Leslie Y. Garfield Tenzer, a Pace Law School professor and host of Law to Fact podcast, told The Sun that rookie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed and Assistant Director David Halls could be charged with involuntary manslaughter.
And Bill Davis, a police officer for 21 years turned prop master armorer who has worked on more than 300 movies and TV shows including SAW, told The Sun the same thing in a separate interview.
Their comments came as the Sante Fe County District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies revealed she is not ruling out criminal charges, saying: "Everything at this point, including criminal charges, is on the table", the New York Times reported.
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