Alec Baldwin may again face involuntary manslaughter charges in the case Rustin which the cinematographer died Halyna Hutchins in October 2021, due to a new report claiming his gun could only have been fired if he pulled the trigger. On April 20, Baldwin, who has maintained the version that he never pulled the trigger on the prop revolver he was holding, was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter charges against him.
The special prosecutors in the case, Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis, dismissed those charges after evidence was presented that the gun had been modified before it was delivered to the set of Rustand the question arises as to whether the weapon worked or not correctly at the time of shooting.
Morrissey and Lewis commissioned a new forensic examination of the gun, which had broken during FBI testing, to determine whether or not the gun was working properly at the time of the accident and to decide whether to re-charge the actor. “It’s Complicated” (2009).
This Tuesday the report presented by the weapons expert Lucien C. Haag was made public, who after the reconstruction of the pistol determined that despite Baldwin’s denials, “the trigger had to be pulled or pressed hard enough” for it to be fired. “This deadly incident was the result of manual retraction of the firing pin to its fully rearward and cocked position, followed, at some point, by pulling or depressing the trigger back,” read the report, collected by the US media.
Prosecutors had stated in the past that if the gun was proven to be working properly, Baldwin would be charged again. According to the newspaper Los Angeles Times, Prosecutor Morrissey indicated Tuesday that his office was still gathering information in the face of a possible new accusation.