Rusty Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed sentenced to 18 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
- The 27-year-old is the first Rust crew member to be convicted of charges related to Hutchins’ death
- Alec Baldwin, who allegedly fired the bullet that killed the mother-of-one, will be the subject of a criminal trial set to begin in July
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Hannah Guttierez-Reed, the primary weapons handler on the set of the ill-fated indie film Rust, was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison for the fatal, on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
The young armorer wept as her fate was read out to her in court today by a judge who reprimanded her for her apparent lack of remorse.
“Your lawyer had to tell the court that you were remorseful,” Judge Mary Marlow Sommer said.
Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March by a jury, making her the first crew member to be convicted in the accidental shooting death of Hutchins by actor Alec Baldwin.
Gutierrez-Reed, 27, was found guilty after a jury determined she mistakenly loaded a live round into a revolver Baldwin used on set.
Baldwin’s criminal trial is set to begin July 10 after a grand jury indicted him in January for involuntary manslaughter.
Hannah Guttierez-Reed was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Monday for the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Halyna Hutchins, 42, was a mother-of-one and aspiring cinematographer when she was fatally shot on the set of the Alec Baldwin-produced indie western ‘Rust’
The first firearms professional, who is the stepdaughter of Thell Reed – a respected Hollywood firearms trainer – was sentenced by Judge Sommer in New Mexico District Court.
Lawyers for Gutierrez-Reed requested that she receive a suspended sentence, but prosecutors argued for the 18 months because of an apparent lack of remorse from the defendant.
Judge Sommer sided with prosecutors and handed down the full recommended sentence to Gutierrez-Reed after it was pointed out that she had called jurors ‘idiots’ and said the judge had been ‘paid off’ during phone calls she made from prison.
She also continued to blame Baldwin and others on set and on the production team for the shooting.
After her conviction last month, she spent a month in the Sante Fe County Jail.
After her sentence was handed down, the judge said: ‘you were the armorer standing between a safe weapon and a weapon that could kill someone. For you she would be alive.’