
“I cannot tell you that,” the woman said. The scene required him to point the gun toward the camera.Ī Santa Fe County Sheriff's deputy talks to a security guard at the entrance to the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, N.M. He then handed it to Baldwin, who sat in a church pew facing the camera and crew.īaldwin was demonstrating a “cross draw” – pulling a gun from a holster on the opposite side of his body from his draw hand. One camera was set up, but because they were just rehearsing, nothing was being filmed or recorded.Īssistant director Dave Halls fetched a prop gun from a cart outside the church and yelled “cold gun!,” indicating it was unloaded. From Serge Svetnoyīaldwin, dressed in Old West clothes, was huddled with Souza, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and a few others inside the simple wooden structure. It's unclear from Svetnoy's Facebook post when the photo was actually taken. Hutchins - wearing a pair of headphones over a tan hat, with a puffy jacket - is seen to the right of the film camera, with Alec Baldwin in the background. Serge Svetnoy, a "Rust" crew member, shared on Facebook what he called the last photo of Halyna Hutchins on the film set in New Mexico. Baldwin and crew members began rehearsing a scene in the rustic church, broke for lunch, and then returned to the set. A six-person camera crew had recently walked off the job, complaining about pay and housing, and a new crew had been brought in.īut even with the delay, things appeared to be going smoothly, director Joel Souza told Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies in the affidavit. Mornings typically started with breakfast at 6:30 a.m., but that day they were behind schedule. In the film Baldwin plays a grizzled outlaw on the run from authorities with his 13-year-old grandson.
#MOMENT BY MOMENT MOVIE#
The crew was filming last Thursday at Bonanza Creek Ranch, a Western movie set outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Here, based on a search warrant affidavit and 911 calls, is a moment-by-moment account of what happened that day.

The next minute, two people were bleeding from gunshot wounds – one of which would prove to be fatal – and everyone was reeling from confusion and shock.


One minute, producer-star Alec Baldwin and a handful of others were rehearsing a scene in a wooden church on a dusty Old West movie set meant to look like 1880s Kansas. The cast and crew of “Rust” had just returned from lunch when it happened.
