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- Criminal charges are on the table in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
- The Santa Fe County district attorney told The New York Times that nothing has been ruled out.
- An investigation into the fatal incident is ongoing.
Criminal charges could be possible in the accidental shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza on the set of Alec Baldwin's "Rust" last week, the Santa Fe County district attorney said Tuesday amid an ongoing investigation into the fatal incident.
"We haven't ruled out anything," District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies told The New York Times. "Everything at this point, including criminal charges, is on the table."
Baldwin on Thursday was rehearsing with a firearm he had been told did not contain live rounds when the gun was discharged, killing Hutchins.
The prop gun contained a "live round," a prop masters union told its members on Friday. A source in the union told the Los Angeles Times that "live round" in the film industry refers to any item loaded into a gun, including blanks. It remains unclear what type of projectile was in the gun that killed Hutchins.
Carmack-Altwies told The Times the investigation is focusing on ballistics to try and determine what kind of round killed Hutchins, as well as who had put the ammunition in the firearm before the shooting. Court documents released Monday show that investigators recovered nine spent casings, as well as three black revolvers and "loose ammo" from the scene.
"There were an enormous amount of bullets on this set, and we need to find out what kinds they were," Carmack-Altwies told the outlet.
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