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Safety issues plagued the set of Rust in the days leading up to the fatal accident, according to new reports. On Thursday, Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, on set of the Western indie. Director Joel Souza, 48, was hospitalized but has since been released. The Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office is investigating the shooting, which occurred "during the filming of a scene."
There were two misfires on the prop gun and one the previous week, a source tells the Los Angeles Times, adding "there was a serious lack of safety meetings on this set."
Deadline confirms "at least one previous incident involving a misfiring of a weapon that was used days before in a scene."
"A gun had two misfires in a closed cabin," a source claimed. "They just fired loud pops — a person was just holding it in their hands and it went off."
Both outlets report that the film's camera crew walked off the set in protest of their working conditions before the accident.
"Corners were being cut — and they brought in nonunion people so they could continue shooting," a source tells the Los AngelesTimes. The paper notes that Hutchins was among those advocating for safer conditions.
One crew member purportedly addressed the walkout in a private Facebook post.
"We cited everything from lack of payment for three weeks, taking our hotels away despite asking for them in our deals, lack of COVID safety, and on top of that, poor gun safety! Poor on-set safety period!" the person wrote, per Deadline. "They brought in four non-union guys to replace us and tried calling the cops on us."
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Questions mount about safety protocols on set of "Rust" after Alec Baldwin accidentally shoots and kills cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.