"Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has sued Seth Kenney, the person who supplied the prop ammunition utilized by the manufacturing crew of the Alec Baldwin film, which was halted following a deadly capturing in October.
Gutierrez-Reed filed the lawsuit Wednesday in New Mexico, citing the state's unfair-trade-practices legislation. She additionally sued Kenney for breach of contract, creation of a harmful situation and misleading product labels, amongst different issues, based on the courtroom submitting obtained by Unique News Digital.
Gutierrez-Reed requested a six-person jury and is searching for compensatory damages, punitive damages, legal professional's charges and extra.
The lawsuit detailed Gutierrez-Reed's model of the occasions that unfolded on and earlier than Oct. 21, the day Baldwin was holding a firearm that discharged, fatally hitting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Gutierrez-Reed's lawsuit accuses Kenney's prop firm, PDQ Arm & Prop, of offering a mixture of dummy and reside rounds to the set, making a "dangerous condition."
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed filed a lawsuit towards prop distributor Seth Kenney. Gutierrez-Reed's lawsuit accused Kenney's prop firm, PDQ Arm & Prop, of offering a mixture of dummy and reside rounds to the set making a 'harmful situation on the film set.'
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"Defendants distributed boxes of ammunition purporting to contain dummy rounds, but which contained a mix of dummy and live ammunition to the Rust production," the lawsuit states. "Hannah and the entire Rust movie crew relied on the Defendants’ misrepresentation that they provided only dummy ammunition. In so doing, Defendants created a dangerous condition on the movie set, unbeknownst to Hannah Gutierrez Reed, which caused a foreseeable risk of injury to numerous people."
Kenney advised authorities that he had acquired "reloaded ammunition" that had a emblem matching dummy and clean ammunition he offers to movies, however later denied that the reside spherical on the set of "Rust" may have come from his prop firm.
"It’s not a possibility that they came from PDQ or from myself personally," Kenney beforehand advised ABC News.
Here is a have a look at Gutierrez-Reed's timeline of occasions, based on the go well with:
Unintentional discharge results in fallout
Gutierrez-Reed claims within the lawsuit that prop grasp Sarah Zachry's unintentional/negligent discharge on Oct. 16 led to a fallout between herself and Kenney.
The armorer claims that she confronted Zachry concerning the discharge and tried to report it to manufacturing. She alleges that she and Kenney had a "heated text exchange" and that the props distributor took Zachry's facet. In response to Gutierrez-Reed, Kenney allegedly appeared to need to downplay the "security incident."
Gutierrez-Reed goes on to say that days later Kenney contacted a police officer in Arizona, who was a good friend recognized by means of Gutierrez-Reed's dad, veteran armorer Thell Reed, and accused Gutierrez-Reed of utilizing derogatory language towards Zachry "three times."
New field of ammo arrives
Within the lawsuit, Gutierrez-Reed describes a full field of ammunition showing on the set of "Rust" the morning of Oct. 21.
Gutierrez-Reed claims she discovered the field on prime of one among her luggage positioned within the prop truck, however claims she by no means had seen the field earlier than that morning. The armorer says she requested Zachry and prop assistant Nicole Montoya the place the complete field got here from, however didn't obtain a solution.
"It was a busy morning and Hannah was happy that they had a full box of dummy rounds to work with and because Sarah as prop manager had brought dummy boxes to the set in the past as part of her duties, Hannah didn't think any more of it at the time," the lawsuit learn.
Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was tragically killed on the set of ‘Rust’ in October.
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Not a scheduled rehearsal
In response to Gutierrez-Reed, the scene Baldwin was practising was not a scheduled rehearsal, and as a substitute, assistant director Dave Halls had been "sitting in" with the gun. Within the lawsuit, the armorer claims a gun wasn't supposed for use in any respect throughout that point.
Gutierrez-Reed was not allowed within the church on the time on account of COVID-19 protocols. All through filming, video screens had been positioned exterior of buildings getting used so crew members may see what was occurring. On the day of the capturing, the screens weren't working, based on the lawsuit.
Gutierrez-Reed claimed if she had been notified that a gun was getting used, she may have instructed Baldwin on secure gun apply whereas cross-drawing a weapon.
"Hannah would never have let Baldwin point the weapon at Halyna, as part of standard safe gun practices," the lawsuit stated.
Alec Baldwin was holding a firearm that discharged, fatally hitting Hutchins.
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Try and shift blame?
Following the capturing and throughout the ensuing police investigation, Kenney tried to get Gutierrez-Reed to shift the blame onto assistant director Halls, the lawsuit claims.
In textual content messages exchanged with Gutierrez-Reed and included within the lawsuit, Kenney allegedly advised the armorer that she "got rolled" by Halls. In response to the lawsuit, Kenney allegedly advised Gutierrez-Reed he would "have her back" if she shifted the blame to Halls.
Seth Kenney and a rep for Sarah Zachry didn't instantly reply to Unique News' request for remark.
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