Crew member sues Alec Baldwin and others over deadly Rust set shooting

[ItsjustMe]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/crew-member-sues-alec-baldwin-and-others-over-deadly-rust-set-shooting/ar-AAQzbzc

A member of the Rust crew sued star and producer Alec Baldwin, armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, first assistant director David Halls, and others, accusing the production of negligence in last month's deadly on-set shooting.

Serge Svetnoy, chief of lighting for Rust, filed the lawsuit Wednesday in the Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming he was narrowly missed by the bullet shot by Baldwin that killed the film's director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and wounded director Joel Souza on a set just outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages for Svetnoy as well as a jury trial.

“This incident was caused by the negligent acts and omission of Defendants, and each of them, as well as their agents, principals, and employers,” the complaint states. “Simply put, there was no reason for a live bullet to be placed in that .45 Colt revolver to be present anywhere on the Rust set, and the presence of a bullet in a revolver posed a lethal threat to everyone in its vicinity.”

The suit also shared what Svetnoy believes to be the chain of custody for the .45 Colt revolver that killed Hutchins on Oct. 21.

Svetnoy alleges the chain of custody began when prop master Sarah Zachry retrieved the gun and failed to properly check the gun before handing it to Gutierrez-Reed. Then, the lawsuit alleges, Gutierrez-Reed loaded the gun for an upcoming scene and then either failed to check the gun for any ammunition or loaded the gun with the ammunition herself. Svetnoy alleges Gutierrez-Reed either released or allowed the gun to be released with one piece of ammunition in it before Halls retrieved the gun and failed to inspect it.

[brush]

1. One of many still to come. The chain of custody of the weapon tells the story.

The first assist director failed to check the weapon before handing it to Baldwin. The armorer failed to check the weapon's chambers when she got it from the prop master and the prop master also failed to check the chambers. It was just an amateurish sequence of errors that one would think would never occur on a professional movie set.

Many of those peoples' movie production careers are dead now.

[keithbvadu2]

2. Willful negligence, criminal negligence, hurry...

Willful negligence, criminal negligence, hurry...

So many ways to express a lack of professionalism.

[jimfields33]

3. Yep. I hope they win and get a bunch of money

Clearly they went through hell on that set literally.

[Marcuse]

4. What damage is he claiming? The exhilaration/trauma of a near miss?

Serge Svetnoy, chief of lighting for Rust, filed the lawsuit Wednesday in the Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming he was narrowly missed by the bullet shot by Baldwin that killed the film's director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and wounded director Joel Souza on a set just outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages for Svetnoy as well as a jury trial.