Forward of Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed‘s scheduled sentencing for involuntary manslaughter on April 15, her household has began a GoFundMe to assist pay for the price of an attraction.
The 26-year-old Arizona girl faces as much as 18 months in jail for her position within the unintentional taking pictures dying of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the low-budget Western. Gutierrez-Reed has been in custody for the reason that Santa Fe jury’s verdict was learn on March 6.
Throughout her trial, Gutierrez-Reed was represented professional bono by New Mexico lawyer Jason Bowles. The GoFundMe, begun by her father, longtime leisure business armorer Thell Reed, asks donors to contribute to appeals bills, with a fundraising objective of $100,000.
The taking pictures occurred Oct. 21, 2021, when an old school revolver dealt with by Alec Baldwin went off whereas he was working towards drawing the prop firearm. Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was injured.
In the course of the trial, prosecutors stated that Gutierrez-Reed, who has maintained that she believed she loaded Baldwin’s gun with “dummy” rounds, was careless in dealing with firearms and ammunition on the Rust set. The protection argued that Gutierrez-Reed was a scapegoat for bigger questions of safety on the low-budget Western that she couldn’t management and faulted Baldwin, one among greater than a dozen producers on the movie, amongst others. Baldwin, who is about to go to trial in July on involuntary manslaughter expenses, has pleaded not responsible.
The textual content accompanying the Reed household’s GoFundMe says, “Gutierrez-Reed was singled out by prosecutors as the principle individual accountable, primarily based on a botched, suspiciously biased investigation by New Mexico authorities, regardless of what official OSHA studies and OSHA investigators discovered to be unsafe actions and a tradition of lack of security all through the manufacturing, clearly inserting blame on the movie’s producers and producing workers.” The household’s request goes on to state that, “The judicial scales in Hannah’s case are unfair and unbalanced. Justice for Halyna doesn’t imply justice for Hannah.”
Forward of Gutierrez-Reed’s sentencing, supporters of the armorer, together with Edward Romero, a former ambassador to Spain underneath President Clinton and Hispanic neighborhood chief in New Mexico, and Sacramento Kings head coach Mike Brown have despatched letters to the choose on her behalf.
A sentencing memo Gutierrez-Reed’s attorneys filed with the court docket on April 10 says that the armorer has been struggling anxiousness, concern and despair for the reason that taking pictures, and has been looking for counseling on the Mohave Psychological Well being Clinic in Arizona.
“Days after this tragedy occurred, Ms. Gutierrez-Reed wished to precise her deep unhappiness relating to this tragedy and the dying of Halyna, to the Hutchins household,” the sentencing memo says. “Authorized proceedings and the looming investigation, nonetheless, made that not possible. Although she exercised her constitutional proper to a jury trial, it didn’t imply that she didn’t and doesn’t nonetheless really feel extremely saddened and heartbroken by what occurred on that tragic day on the Rust set. The tragic sequence of occasions that unfolded that day destroyed and altered many individuals’s lives, together with Ms. Gutierrez’s Reed’s.”