‘Rust’ Armorer Gets Parole, Must Stay Away From Halyna Hutchins Family

The one one that really went to jail for the 2021 taking pictures dying of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins is free simply weeks after the tragedy suffused Alec Baldwin starring indie Western premiered after which promptly disappeared in a cloud of field workplace mud earlier this month.

According to the New Mexico Department of Corrections, the movie’s armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was granted parole earlier this week and launched on May 23. Having served the state statute required 85% of her 18-month sentence and obtained further marks for good habits and the completion of a drug rehab program, information present Gutierrez-Reed having signed out of the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility on Friday morning. She rapidly headed to her residence in Bullhead City, Arizona the place she’s going to serve out her parole.

A really state of affairs particular a part of that parole is that Gutierrez-Reed can not have contact with Hutchins’ widower, little one or some other member of the filmmaker’s household.

The stepdaughter of famed film gun coach Thell Reed, the comparatively inexperienced Gutierrez-Reed was charged with involuntary manslaughter and proof tampering out of Hutchins’ dying from a gun in Baldwin’s hand going off.  Even earlier than Gurierrez-Reed was charged in January 2023, the prosecution claimed the armorer was liable for reside rounds ending up on the Rust set. In a manufacturing underneath intense finances and time crunches, and movie crews quitting, these reside rounds bought into Baldwin’s Eighteen Eighties Colt .45 reproduction that that fired throughout rehearsals on the Bonanza Creek set, placing Hutchins and director Joel Souza. 

With her parole stretching from May 23, 2025 to May 23, 2026, the twentysomething Gutierrez-Reed has to get a job, in addition to undergo a curfew, and psychological well being evaluation as a number of the situations of her parole. She can also’t personal weapons, has to fulfill frequently with a parole officer and comply with digital monitoring. In level of truth, Gutierrez-Reed is underneath what’s referred to as twin supervision. That shakes down as a yr for her involuntary manslaughter convictions and a yr and a half for a special cost of “unlawfully” getting into a firearm banning Santa Fe bar earlier than Rust went into manufacturing with a gun on her.

On March 6, 2024, a Sante Fe jury discovered the Rust armorer responsible of involuntary manslaughter within the deadly October 21, 2021 taking pictures. Despite the state’s finest effort, the jurors’ resolution was cut up as they determined the defendant was not responsible of proof tampering. Six weeks later, Gutierrez-Reed was sentenced to 18 months bars.

Baldwin by no means ended up spending a second in jail, nor even a full week earlier than a jury in his personal case final summer time. The media frenzy matter was tossed out 4 days in by the decide on account of proof suppression by the prosecution and native cops. All appeals have been dropped, although the 30 Rock actor and now actuality star in January filed paperwork to pursue a civil rights violations lawsuit in opposition to the particular prosecutors.

Gutierrez-Reed continues to have attraction of her conviction transferring by way of the New Mexico courts. Her protection lawyer Jason Bowles didn’t reply Saturday to request for remark from Deadline on his consumer’s launch from jail.

Finding a brand new cinematographer in Bianca Cline, the ultimately completed Rust debuted at a Polish movie competition in December 2024. The film lastly discovered U.S. distribution through Falling Forward Films, with a brief lived home theatrical run beginning on May 2.