Alec Baldwin will have to hand over his cell phone to police after fatal shooting on set

Actor Alec Baldwin, 63, will have to hand over his cell phone to the police so that an investigation can be carried out in search of new evidence. A warrant signed by a New Mexico judge last Thursday (16) orders this to happen two months after the fatal shooting on the set of “Rust”.

According to TMZ, which had access to the court documents, Alec told investigators that he exchanged emails with head gunsmith Hannah Gutierrez in which she showed different styles of weapons and knives to be used in the film. Alec says he asked for a bigger gun.

The accident on the set of “Rust” happened on Oct. 21 and left director of photography Halyna Hutchins, 42, dead and director Joel Souza, 48, injured at Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States United. Alec Baldwin was reportedly informed that the weapon was unloaded prior to allegedly firing.

In a recent interview, however, the actor stated that he did not pull the trigger on the gun. “The trigger wasn’t pulled. I didn’t pull the trigger. I would never point a gun at someone and pull the trigger, never,” he said. About the ammunition, he said, “Someone put a real bullet in the gun. A bullet that shouldn’t even be on that property.”

After the accident, Baldwin was sued by two film crew members. Serge Svetnoy, the film’s lighting director, filed a complaint in late November of “negligence” against the actor, the production and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the 24-year-old gunsmith responsible for the pistols used in the filming.

Svetnoy claims that Baldwin, assistant director Dave Halls —who handed the gun to the actor— and Gutierrez-Reed did not follow film industry practices in handling the guns and “allowed a handgun loaded with live ammunition to be aimed at living people” .

A week later, Mamie Mitchell, the film’s screenwriter, also filed another lawsuit against the three. Mitchell said he suffered “emotional stress” and other disturbances for damage “intentionally caused” by the production.

“The events leading up to the firing of a gun carried by Mr. Baldwin are not mere negligence,” warned the screenwriter’s lawyer, Gloria Allred. “Baldwin chose to play Russian roulette when he fired a gun without having checked it and without the gunsmith having done so in his presence.”

More recently, Baldwin became angry with a journalist when asked about the incident. A video shows the actor even approaching and pointing his umbrella at New York Post reporter Jon Levine.