SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Law enforcement authorities are scheduled to discuss initial findings about a fatal movie-set shooting with a prop gun discharged by actor Alec Baldwin that left a cinematographer dead and the film director wounded. The news conference in New Mexico by Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza and area District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies on Wednesday morning may shed new light on a deadly sequence of events that has baffled film-set safety experts. Baldwin has described the killing as a “tragic accident.” Court records say that an assistant director grabbed the gun from a cart and indicated the weapon was safe by yelling “cold gun.”
Photo: A Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputy briefly talks with a security guard at the entrance to the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, N.M., Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. A camera operator told authorities that Alec Baldwin had been careful with weapons on the set of the film “Rust” before the actor shot and killed a cinematographer with a gun he’d been told was safe to use, court records released Sunday show. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
