Parole Granted For ‘Rust’ Armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed Must Stay Away From Halyna Hutchins’ Family

The one one that in reality went to jail for the 2021 capturing demise of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins is loose simply weeks after the tragedy suffused Alec Baldwin starring indie Western premiered after which promptly disappeared in a cloud of field administrative center mud previous this month.

According to the New Mexico Department of Corrections, the movie’s armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was once granted parole previous this week and launched on May 23. Having served the state statute required 85% of her 18-month sentence and won additional marks for just right habits and the finishing touch of a drug rehab program, data display Gutierrez-Reed having signed out of the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility on Friday morning. She temporarily headed to her house in Bullhead City, Arizona the place she’s going to serve out her parole.

An excessively state of affairs particular a part of that parole is that Gutierrez-Reed can not have touch with Hutchins’ widower, kid or some other member of the filmmaker’s circle of relatives.

The stepdaughter of famed film gun trainer Thell Reed, the fairly green Gutierrez-Reed was once charged with involuntary manslaughter and proof tampering out of Hutchins’ demise from a gun in Baldwin’s hand going off.  Even prior to Gurierrez-Reed was once charged in January 2023, the prosecution claimed the armorer was once answerable for reside rounds finishing up at the Rust set. In a manufacturing underneath intense finances and time crunches, and movie crews quitting, the ones reside rounds were given into Baldwin’s 1880s Colt .45 copy that that fired all over rehearsals at 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 task, in addition to put up to a curfew, and psychological well being evaluation as one of the most stipulations of her parole. She can also’t personal weapons, has to fulfill frequently with a parole officer and comply with digital tracking. In level of truth, Gutierrez-Reed is underneath what’s referred to as twin supervision. That shakes down as a 12 months for her involuntary manslaughter convictions and a 12 months and a part for a special fee of “unlawfully” coming into a firearm banning Santa Fe bar prior to Rust went into manufacturing with a gun on her.

On March 6, 2024, a Sante Fe jury discovered the Rust armorer accountable of involuntary manslaughter within the deadly October 21, 2021 capturing. Despite the state’s easiest effort, the jurors’ determination was once cut up as they determined the defendant was once no longer accountable of proof tampering. Six weeks later, Gutierrez-Reed was once sentenced to 18 months bars.

Baldwin by no means ended up spending a 2d in jail, nor even a complete week prior to a jury in his personal case ultimate summer time. The media frenzy subject was once tossed out 4 days in by means of the pass judgement on because of proof suppression by means of the prosecution and native law enforcement officials. All appeals were dropped, even though the 30 Rock actor and now truth celebrity in January filed bureaucracy to pursue a civil rights violations lawsuit towards the particular prosecutors.

Gutierrez-Reed continues to have attraction of her conviction transferring in the course of the New Mexico courts. Her protection attorney Jason Bowles didn’t reply Saturday to request for remark from Deadline on his shopper’s unencumber from jail.

Finding a brand new cinematographer in Bianca Cline, the sooner or later completed Rust debuted at a Polish movie pageant in December 2024. The film in any case discovered U.S. distribution by means of Falling Forward Films, with a brief home theatrical run beginning on May 2.