Alec Baldwin fires prop pistol on set, director of photography dies

Tragedy on the set of the western movie ‘Rust’ at Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Actor Alec Baldwin, according to reports in the US press citing the county sheriff, fired a prop pistol, killing the director of photography and injuring the director. To die, explains the Mail Online, Halyna Hutchins, 42. Urgently transported by plane to the University of New Mexico hospital in Albuquerque, the Daily Beast also reports, she died from her injuries. Director Joel Souza, 48, now in intensive care, was injured. According to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office, Baldwin did not know the gun was loaded with live bullets.