"Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed sentenced to 18 months in prison over deadly 2021 shooting
"Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed sentenced to 18 months in prison over deadly 2021 shooting
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on Alec Baldwin's film "Rust," was given the maximum sentence of 18 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter.
I can empathize that this sucks to go through because I haven't read anything to suggest she had murderous intent, but even accidents have consequences. There have to be penalties for setting up dangerous conditions to make sure that happens as rarely as possible. It's why charges like "involuntary manslaughter" exist.
While this was technically an accident, I put it in the same league as driving drunk and killing someone. It was preventable by doing the bare minimum of what her job responsibilities were.
I agree and that's why I finished by saying even these situations, where there's no intent, have to be prosecuted and punished. While I empathize with making mistakes (having made my own albeit none nearly so serious) I still think there's a good reason she's headed to prison.
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It's "an accident" in the same way getting shit faced and going for a cross country drive and wrecking is "an accident".
She violated pretty much every safety regulation, and I believe was even getting drunk and shooting the prop guns on set with live bullets. She was definitely shooting them on set, I just don't know if they proved she was doing it while drunk.
A drunk driver doesn't mean to kill anyone either. But most don't say it was just an accident and try to emphasize with the irresponsible sociopath who got someone killed because they thought they knew more than the law.
She wasn't qualified to do a very specific job she was hired specifically to do. The people who hired her are also at fault, but her very actions and incompetence at her duties lead to a shooting and death. You don't just shrug and say oops, accidents happen if a certified electrician or utility worker messes up so badly they burn your house down.
People do more time for growing medicinal fungus than she will for manslaughter .
And she will do more time in prison for manslaughter then every rich person who has committed manslaughter and never see a day behind bars.
Your honor, when I took on 'Rust,' I was young and naive. But I took my job as seriously as I knew how to,"
Why say this?
Because she is still young and naive.
And she took the court proceedings as seriously as she knew how to?
It's the "I'm just a little guy" defense strategy.
Because sometimes it works.
a fall guy to the producers who brought a bunch of non union workers on set during a strike. obviously she fucked up, but this isn't just on her, she was at work.
This is a dumb take. Her only job was to make sure the weapons are safe, and she had live ammo on set. The producers may share some of the blame with her, but she's no fall guy.
She additionally lacked remorse. She was feeling sorry for herself and how this conviction would adversely affect her own modeling career.
I think 18 months was very little all things considered.
And she's also the child of an armorer so it's not like this was her first rodeo.
interesting that it was actually a white dude in a position with considerable power who discharged the firearm, maybe Baldwin could have checked the gun too.
If i'm caught accidentally shooting someone with live ammunition can I blame the last person who held the weapon, or is it my responsibility to check it myself?
Alec Baldwin shot an killed a woman ffs, and the buck has stopped with some low level minion.
While what you said is factual, this also was the very specific reason she was brought to the set: the safe and professional handling of firearms and firearm analogous props. Her entire job was to ensure no one got shot. 18 months for manslaughter is a slap on the wrist.
Wait, so what's the role of an armorer on set?
They are a subsection of Props which covers everything an actor holds or interacts with during a scene (minus things like furniture) and some things worn during a scene like jewelry (some overlap with costume dept there so not exclusively everything is props)
Armorer specifically deals with the sourcing and safe handling of weapons and armor. Depending on where you are all Props people need to be licenced to handle weapons wherever licencing programs exist so all props people can do the most basic armorer tasks but generally speaking once you stop dealing with rubber toy look-alikes and airsoft weapons most shows will upgrade to an armorer who has specialized knowledge to handle loading, proper storage and instruction on proper handling and guidance.
So she didn't bring live rounds on set and put those live rounds in a prop gun intended for actors in a movie?
Hire scabs, get scabs results.
Damn. No one cares that it's wildly irresponsible to give a 24 year old with no experience a job of this magnitude and responsibility?
Mega corp and ultra rich actor found a patsy...
I don't think it's a patsy when the person who was criminally negligent is held accountable.
She’s the daughter of a famous armorer / sharp shooter. She was raised around that stuff and should’ve known better.
Are you suggesting Alec Baldwin hired her?
He probably didn't... But he also didn't take the weapon from her on the set. He took it from the 1st AD who had absolutely no fucking business handling that weapon in the first place. To give a parable it would be like if you regularly go bungie jumping and the person who is supposed to check your equipment and buckle you in pre jump isn't around but the parking attendant still wearing his vest shows up gives you a pat down and a thumbs up and says "good to go boss!"
Like if it was your first day on and you somehow got past all the safety layers of people who should give you the full safety spiel... But really? This was not the first nor second rodeo. This was a neon red flashing sign of bad practice.
She really only had ONE job. She failed.
50:30 in case anyone just wants the sentencing part, but the lead up is more rewarding. She doesn't react much to the sentence itself.
Yea, you can tell during her statement that she made it more about her and I knew that would bite her in the ass. Sure enough, the judge caught it.
This wouldn't have happened with a Go armourer, just saying.
She can do that easy