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    Alec Baldwin is stone-faced as jurors are shown tragic bodycam footage of fatally wounded Halyna Hutchins

    By Priscilla DeGregory,

    5 days ago

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    SANTA FE, N.M — Alec Baldwin appeared stone-faced in court Wednesday as jurors were shown dramatic body camera footage depicting first responders attempting to save cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ life after the “30 Rock” actor allegedly shot her by accident on a movie set.

    The footage came on t he first day of testimony for Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial . The New York native, 66 — wearing a dark suit, light purple shirt and maroon tie — gave away little emotion, occasionally taking notes and at one point putting his hand on his brow and bowing his head slightly.

    Emergency responders showed up at Bonanza Creek Ranch on Oct. 21, 2021 where Hutchins and director Joel Souza had been shot after Baldwin was mistakenly handed a gun with a live .45-caliber round during filming for the gun-slinging Western.

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    Alec Baldwin appeared mostly stone-faced as dramatic footage was shown to a jury of the aftermath of the accidental shooting of Halyna Hutchins. Court TV via Reuters
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    Body camera footage showed first responders surrounding Halyna Hutchins as she laid on the ground inside a small church on the set of “Rust.” Court TV via Reuters
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    The jurors were also shown outtakes of filming the moments before the shooting. Getty Images

    The footage was taken from the body-worn camera of Santa Fe police officer Nicholas LeFleur — who walked the jurors through the mayhem that unfolded in the aftermath of the deadly shooting.

    New Mexicans aren’t happy to see ‘narcissistic’ Alec Baldwin in Santa Fe for involuntary manslaughter trial

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    Baldwin listening to opening statements on the first day of his trial on July 10, 2024. via REUTERS
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    Retired Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant Tim Benavidez testifies about the firearm used in the shooting. via REUTERS
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    Special prosecutor Erlinda Ocampo Johnson shows a bullet in an evidence bag. Photo by Ross D. Franklin – Pool/Getty Images

    Hutchins and Souza could both be seen on the ground inside a small church where they’d been filming surrounded by medics, first responders and medical equipment.

    “Halyna, deep breaths, deep breaths,” one unidentified woman could be hear repeating to Hutchins during footage. In the background, a man groaned in apparent pain.

    Earlier, prosecutors said that Baldwin “played make-believe with a real gun” on the set of “Rust” — and Hutchins died as a result.

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    Hutchins was fatally shot on Oct. 21, 2021. @HALYNAHUTCHINS via REUTERS
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    Hutchins with Baldwin and other cast members of “Rust.” Josh Hopkins/Instagram

    Alec Baldwin ‘played make-believe with real gun’ on ‘Rust’ set, prosecutor says at manslaughter trial

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    The gun used in the fatal shooting. via REUTERS

    Baldwin’s lawyer, meanwhile, said he was merely an “actor, acting” and that the people who handed him a gun loaded with a live round are the ones responsible for the 42-year-old mother’s death.

    Baldwin arrived at court Wednesday morning with wife Hilaria and brother Stephen Baldwin for support. He did not answer questions from a gaggle of reporters.

    The “Saturday Night Live” mainstay and father-of-8 faces up to 18 months in prison if convicted.
    LeFleur — who was seen in the video handing medical equipment to someone tending to Hutchins — testified that when he arrived at the scene his main concern was “priority of life” and he tried to “make sure whoever needs help gets help, and that the threat is stopped.”

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    Hilaria Baldwin greeting her husband during his hearing. AP
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    Alec with his brother Stephen in court. AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool
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    Stephen and Hilaria Baldwin watching the hearing. Court TV via Reuters

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    LeFleur — who was a Santa Fe County sheriff’s deputy at the time of the “Rust shooting” — said he called for a helicopter to lift Hutchins out because an ambulance could take roughly 20 minutes to get to a hospital. She later died.

    A later moment in the footage showed Baldwin smoking a cigarette as he was asked to stay apart from the other crew so that sheriff’s deputies could secure the crime scene.

    Baldwin lawyer Alex Spiro asked LeFleur during cross-examination about Baldwin’s words to him.

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    Baldwin leaving court with his wife Hilaria. Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images
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    Baldwin’s siblings Stephen Baldwin and Elizabeth Keuchler leaving the courtroom. AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool

    “When you got to the scene Mr. Baldwin walked up to you and said, ‘I was holding the gun,’” Spiro said.

    “He blurted it out, right?”

    “Yes,” LeFleur answered.

    “And in fact, he was very shocked,” Spiro said, before he started to ask whether it seemed like Baldwin had carried out the act accidentally.

    “I don’t know the individual’s intentions, but his demeanor was sad. Upset,” LeFleur said.

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