Alec Baldwin may be hit with new charges just six months after the charges against him were dropped in the death of Rust photographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021.
Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis, who are special prosecutors in the Rust case, say, “After extensive investigation over the past several months, additional facts have come to light that we believe show Mr. Baldwin has criminal culpability in the death of Halyna Hutchins and the shooting of Joel Souza.”
The terrible event happened on October 21, 2021, on the set of the independent western movie in New Mexico.
“We believe the appropriate course of action is to permit a panel of New Mexico citizens to determine from here whether Mr. Baldwin should be held over for criminal trial,” the two said Tuesday.
Special prosecutors charged earlier this month that the makers of Rust and Baldwin were getting in the way of their investigation into what really happened at the Bonanza Creek Ranch, which is shown in The Land of Enchantment.
Baldwin has said his whole life that he didn’t fire the gun that killed Hutchins and hurt Rust director Joel Souza.
It’s too bad that this bad case was turned into a terrible tragedy, Baldwin’s lawyers Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro of Quinn Emanuel said about the new charges. “We will answer any charges in court.”