Alec Baldwin’s testimony found suspect after it was contradicted by the final FBI forensics report. This is all on the accidental shooting that killed “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The FBI forensics report finds that Hutchins’ gun could not have fired “without a pull of the trigger while the working internal components were intact and functional.”
In a December 2021 interview with ABC News Baldwin originally said that he did not pull the trigger during a scene’s rehearsal. Baldwin claims he was told the weapon was “cold,” or unloaded of live rounds. Two were injured in the onset accident, Director Joel Souza was hurt while Hutchins was fatally wounded.
“I’m not shooting to camera lens. I’m holding the gun where she told me to hold it, which turned out to be below her armpit,” Baldwin told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “But we kept doing this…. I start to cock the gun. She said, just ‘cheat it down, could you see that, could you see that.’ I let go of the hammer of the gun, the gun goes off.”
“The trigger wasn’t pulled,” he insisted. “I would never point a gun at anyone and pull a trigger at them. Never.”
Alec Baldwin: “I didn’t pull the trigger.”
A FBI analysis of the gun held by Baldwin during the shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has been complete. It has concluded “the firearm used in the shooting could not have been fired without pulling the trigger”. pic.twitter.com/YNh1wBjaH2
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) August 14, 2022
ABC News claimed in a shocking report released on Friday, that they have obtained a copy of the Bureau’s most current forensic analysis report.
According to ABC’s reporting the FBI investigation found that the gun involved was a revolver, a .45 Colt caliber F.lli Pietta, which could not have been shot without someone pulling the trigger. A conclusion they reached after performing testing for unintentional discharge tests using the same single-action, .45 Colt Pietta gun that Baldwin shot off that fateful day.
The investigation found that if the hammer was not cocked back, “without a pull of the trigger when the hammer was struck directly,” the gun could only fire a primer and not a projectile.
Santa Fe investigators have waited for the FBI ballistics report to be finished before pressing charges. Baldwin has turned over his phone to Suffolk County police in New York. Investigators are now waiting for phone records to continue with the investigation.
A “prop gun” as CBS News calls it doesn’t kill people. Alec Baldwin aiming a loaded gun at someone and pulling the trigger does. https://t.co/UF4QKgM4Gr
— H.L. Chiselfritz (@RotNScoundrel) August 14, 2022
The Suffolk County Police Department in New York’s homicide and computer crimes investigators are still actively aiding the Santa Fe Sheriffs’ office in obtaining and processing Alec Baldwin’s phone data.
Sources: Abcnews, Westernjournal, Nypost