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 Baldwin shot Halyna Hutchins,
the photography director of "Rust", and Joel
Souza, the film's director, at the Bonanza Creek
Ranch, a production location south of Santa Fe,
according to the Santa Fe Sheriff's Department.
Hutchins was transported by helicopter to the
University of New Mexico Hospital, where she was
pronounced dead.
Souza was taken by ambulance to Christus St.
Vincent Regional Medical center to undergo
treatment for his injuries. The severity of his
injuries could not immediately be determined.
Actress Frances Fisher said on Twitter that
"Souza texted me that he's out of hospital."
Asked whether Souza had been discharged, medical
center spokesperson Arturo Delgado said he was
not allowed to release information about
patients.
The Sheriff's office said that no charges have
been filed and they are investigating the
shooting and interviewing witnesses.
"The investigation remains open and active," the
Sherrif's office said in a statement.
Entertainment news site Deadline https://deadline.com/2021/10/female-crewmember-dies-on-new-mexico-set-of-alec-baldwin-film-rust-1234860416
cited a source in the Sheriff's office as saying
that Baldwin was questioned by investigators and
later released.
Baldwin went to the sheriff's office willingly
and provided a statement to investigators, the
Santa Fe New Mexican reported, citing
spokesperson Juan Rios.
Deputies were still trying to determine whether
what happened was an accident, the newspaper
added. Rios did not immediately respond to
requests for information from Reuters.
Baldwin's representatives did not immediately
respond to requests for comment. Earlier on
Thursday, news magazine People reported that a
spokesperson for Baldwin had said there was an
"accident" involving the "misfire of a prop gun
with blanks."
Baldwin was seen "distraught and in tears" as he
spoke on the phone outside the sheriff's office
headquarters on Thursday, the Santa Fe New
Mexican wrote.
Baldwin, 63, is a co-producer of "Rust", a
Western movie set in 1880s Kansas, and plays the
eponymous character who is an outlaw grandfather
of a 13-year-old boy convicted of an accidental
killing.
Production of the film had been halted for an
"undetermined period," several news outlets
quoted the film's production company, Rust Movie
Productions LLC, as saying.
An e-mail to an address for the film production,
which was listed on a New Mexico government
statement, went unanswered.
The shooting evoked memories of an on-set
accident in 1993 when U.S. actor Brandon Lee,
son of Bruce Lee, died aged 28 after being
fatally wounded by a prop gun filming "The
Crow".
"Our hearts go out to the family of Halyna
Hutchins and to Joel Souza and all involved in
the incident on 'Rust'. No one should ever be
killed by a gun on a film set. Period," said a
tweet https://bit.ly/3jsrSMV from Lee's account,
which is handled by his sister.
UKRAINIAN ORIGINS
Earlier on Thursday, Baldwin posted a picture of
himself on Instagram sporting a grey beard and
dressed in Western cowboy-style attire in front
of trailers. He appeared to have a fake blood
stain on his shirt and jacket.
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 "Back to in person at the
office. Blimey ... it's exhausting," he wrote.
The post was deleted late on Thursday night.
Known for his impersonations of former U.S.
President Donald Trump on NBC's comedy sketch
show "Saturday Night Live," Baldwin has a long
history in film and television, including roles
in "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "30 Rock."
Baldwin was charged in 2018 after a fight over a
New York parking spot. He pleaded guilty to
second-degree harassment and agreed to
participate in an anger management program.
In 2014, he was given a summons for disorderly
conduct after an argument with police who
stopped him from riding his bike down a one-way
street in New York. And in 2011, he was thrown
off a plane for refusing to stop playing the
game "Words with Friends" before take-off.
Hutchins, 42, who was originally from Ukraine
and grew up on a Soviet military base in the
Arctic Circle, once worked as an investigative
reporter in Europe, according to her website.
She graduated from the American Film Institute
in 2015 and was selected as one of American
Cinematographer's Rising Stars of 2019,
according to her website biography http://www.halynahutchinsdp.com/bio.
She described herself as a "Restless Dreamer"
and an "Adrenaline junkie" on her Instagram
page.
Her last post, two days ago, shows her grinning
under a wide-brimmed hat as she rides a horse.
"One of the perks of shooting a western is you
get to ride horses on your day off:)" she
captioned the video.
April Wright, a writer, director and producer,
paid tribute to her on Facebook.
"I'm in disbelief," wrote Wright. "So young,
vibrant, and talented. Such a wonderful soul. My
heart goes out to her son and family."
Representatives for Hutchins did not immediately
respond to a request for information about her
death.
Souza, 48, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area
with his wife and two children, according to the
IMDB website. His LinkedIn page credits him as
the "writer/director" of action film Crown Vic
and comedy Christmas Trade.
"This is still an active investigation and we do
not yet have all the facts," said SAG-AFTRA,
which describes itself as the world's biggest
labor union representing performers and
broadcasters.
"We will continue to work with production, the
other unions, and the authorities to investigate
this incident and to understand how to prevent
such a thing from happening again."
(Reporting by Bhargav Acharya in Bengaluru and
Alexandra Ulmer in San Francisco; Editing by
Karishma Singh, Noeleen Walder, Muralikumar
Anantharaman and Mike Collett-White)
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