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Horror details from 911 call after Alec Baldwin shooting revealed

This is the horror 911 call made after Alec Baldwin shot dead Halyna Hutchins on set as a crew member can be heard “blaming a colleague”.

911 call released after Alec Baldwin fatal shooting

Details of the 911 call made after Alec Baldwin shot dead Halyna Hutchins on set have been revealed including how a crew member was heard “blaming a colleague” for the horror accident.

The panicked call, made by the film’s script supervisor Mamie Mitchell, reveals how the team asked for help “immediately” after the shooting ordeal.

In the footage obtained by TMZ, the woman can be heard telling operators: “We‘ve had two people accidentally shot on a movie set by a prop gun.

“We need help immediately.”

The crew member making the call, who had left the building where the two injured people were located, said that she couldn‘t confirm if a real bullet was fired.

She also then told the dispatch it was during a rehearsal that the gun went off.

A distraught Alec Baldwin pictured in the aftermath of last week’s deadly accident. Picture: Jim Weber/Santa Fe New Mexican
A distraught Alec Baldwin pictured in the aftermath of last week’s deadly accident. Picture: Jim Weber/Santa Fe New Mexican

But she said she couldn‘t say if the bleeding on either victim was serious.

While on the 911 call, the script supervisor then appears to speak to someone else with her as she begins “placing the blame” of the loaded gun on another crew member.

She said: “he‘s supposed to check the guns, he’s responsible,” before the operator then asks more questions.

A man then takes over the call from the film set – and tells the operator where both people are alert and says that a medic is tending to them.

The gun Alec Baldwin fired in the fatal shooting on the Rust movie set was handed to the actor loaded with a live round, according to a warrant from the ongoing police investigation.

The warrant says that an assistant director handed the gun to the actor and told him that it was “cold” before he fired it, fatally striking cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza on Thursday.

The warrant, obtained by the Associated Press, also says that the assistant director was not aware that the gun was loaded.

The gun that was fired was one of three laid on a cart by the film‘s armourer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed.

Assistant director Dave Halls grabbed the gun from the cart, believing it was unloaded, and brought it inside to Alec, who was filming a scene, the warrant says.

It‘s not clear at this time how many rounds were fired.

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Gutierrez-Reed, 24, is reportedly the daughter of longtime film industry armourer, Thell Reed. She said in a recent podcast interview that she had trained from a young age.

She also said that she had only recently completed her first job as a head armourer on a film called The Old Way, starring Nicolas Cage – and initially worried she may not be “ready” for the position, but added that it went ”smoothly”.

A distraught Alec Baldwin lingers in the parking lot outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff's offices on Camino Justicia after being questioned on October 20. Picture: Jim Weber/Santa Fe New Mexican
A distraught Alec Baldwin lingers in the parking lot outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff's offices on Camino Justicia after being questioned on October 20. Picture: Jim Weber/Santa Fe New Mexican

Halls has been in the business for decades, working as an assistant director on major productions like Fargo, The Matrix Reloaded, and Reno 911.

In a chilling twist, it emerged that Halls worked on the 2000 film The Crow: Salvation, the sequel to The Crow, which suffered its own infamous on-set tragedy when star Brandon Lee – the son of Bruce Lee – was shot dead.

He worked as a first assistant director for the second unit.

Rust‘s script supervisor, Mamie Mitchell, said she was standing next to Hutchins when she was shot.

“I ran out and called 911 and said bring everybody, send everybody,” she told the AP. “This woman is gone at the beginning of her career. She was an extraordinary, rare, very rare woman.”

The gun that went off and other prop guns and ammunition were taken in as evidence, as well as Alec‘s bloodstained costume, the warrant says.

According to the accounts of people familiar with the set, Thursday‘s deadly accident was not the first time there were safety issues at the New Mexico film location, Deadline reports.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission

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