Alec Baldwin sues 'Rust' armorer, more over fatal prop gun shooting - USA TODAY

After settling a wrongful decease lawsuit with Halyna Hutchins' household past month, Alec Baldwin has filed a complaint of his own against respective radical implicit the prop weapon shooting that took the "Rust" cinematographer's life.

In a countersuit filed successful Los Angeles Superior Court Friday, Baldwin's attorneys allege Hutchins died owed to the negligence of defendants Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the film's armorer; adjunct manager David Halls; props maestro Sarah Zachry; guns and ammunition supplier Seth Kenney; and Kenney's business, PDQ Arm and Prop.

USA TODAY has reached retired to attorneys for Gutierrez-Reed and Halls for comment. Contacts for Kenney and Zachry could not be located arsenic of Friday evening. The Santa Fe District Attorney's bureau is inactive conducting a reappraisal of the incident.

By filing the complaint, Baldwin seeks "to wide his name" of the shooting, successful which helium has been "wrongfully viewed arsenic the perpetrator" for firing the weapon during filming, the filing states. The actor, 64, besides aims to clasp the defendants "accountable."

"There tin beryllium nary uncertainty that others person suffered from Cross-Defendants’ negligence acold much than Baldwin has," the suit reads. "Hutchins mislaid her life, and her young kid mislaid his mother. Producer Joel Souza was changeable successful the enarthrosis and has suffered carnal and affectional pain. Though by nary means comparable, Baldwin indispensable unrecorded with the immense grief, and the resulting emotional, physical, and fiscal toll, caused by the information that Cross-Defendants’ negligent conduct, assurances, and supervision enactment a loaded limb successful his manus and led him, Hutchins, and everyone other connected acceptable to judge that his directed usage of the limb was safe."

The suit adds: "This calamity happened due to the fact that unrecorded bullets were delivered to the acceptable and loaded into the gun, Gutierrez-Reed failed to cheque the bullets oregon the weapon carefully, Halls failed to cheque the weapon cautiously and yet announced the weapon was harmless earlier handing it to Baldwin, and Zachry failed to disclose that Gutierrez-Reed had been acting recklessly disconnected acceptable and was a information hazard to those astir her."

The suit claims Baldwin, who is besides 1 of the film's producers, played nary relation successful hiring Gutierrez-Reed. It also alleges Kenney and his company stored inventory without due labels oregon enactment and that "their cavalier disregard for due separation betwixt unrecorded and dummy ammunition was 1 of the factors that led to the beingness of unrecorded ammunition connected the set."

The suit besides says that, arsenic an actor, Baldwin did not carnivore the work for checking the ammunition successful his prop weapon and that he's "lost galore occupation opportunities and associated income" as a effect of the shooting.

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"Over the past year, Baldwin has suffered important harm arsenic a effect of the events connected October 21," the suit says. "He has suffered physically and emotionally from the grief caused by these events. Not a time goes by that helium doesn’t deliberation about, and endure from, the events that happened that day."

In aboriginal October, Baldwin announced helium reached a colony successful a wrongful decease suit filed by Hutchins' family. As portion of the settlement, the cinematographer's husband Matthew Hutchins volition service arsenic an enforcement shaper connected the movie, which is acceptable to resume accumulation successful January. He was a plaintiff successful the suit on with the couple's 9-year-old son, Andros.

"We person reached a settlement, taxable to tribunal approval, for our wrongful decease lawsuit against the producers of 'Rust' including Alec Baldwin and Rust Movie Productions," Matthew Hutchins said successful a connection provided to USA TODAY astatine the time. "I person nary involvement successful engaging successful recriminations oregon attribution of blasted (to the producers oregon Mr. Baldwin). All of america judge Halyna's decease was a unspeakable accident. I americium grateful that the producers and the amusement assemblage person travel unneurotic to wage tribute to Halyna's last work."

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USA TODAY besides obtained a connection from Baldwin's attorney, Luke Nikas of Quinn Emanuel: "Throughout this hard process, everyone has maintained the circumstantial tendency to bash what is champion for Halyna’s son. We are grateful to everyone who contributed to the solution of this tragic and achy situation.” 

The presumption of the colony were not disclosed.

The Santa Fe District Attorney's bureau indicated the agreement would person nary bearing connected the transgression case.

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Contributing: Brian Truitt