Alec Baldwin Appears to Suggest Who’s to Blame for Fatal Shooting of Set Worker

Alec Baldwin has stayed relatively mum since he accidentally killed director of photography Halyna Hutchins on the set of his movie “Rust.” But on Wednesday, he retweeted a story apparently trying to shift blame off of himself.

The story was published in The New York Times and was titled, “Gun Handed to Alec Baldwin Was Not Thoroughly Checked, Affidavit Says.”

“Before he handed a revolver that he had declared ‘cold’ to Alec Baldwin on the set of the film ‘Rust,’ Dave Halls, an assistant director, told a detective he should have inspected each round in each chamber, according to an affidavit. But he did not,” the tweet’s caption read.

Baldwin retweeted the above tweet to his foundation’s account on Wednesday evening in an apparent signal that he agreed with its content, the New York Post reported.

It is absolutely fair to say multiple people from the movie bear some responsibility for last week’s accident. In the article, the Times details shortcomings from both Halls and the movie’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed.

The paper reported Halls was previously fired from the 2019 movie “Freedom’s Path” after another accidental discharge of a firearm.

Meanwhile, Gutierrez-Reed said on a podcast in September that she had just completed her first head armorer job with a different Western movie called “The Old Way.”

“I was really nervous about it at first, and I almost didn’t take the job because I wasn’t sure if I was ready, but doing it, it went really smoothly,” she said.