Hannah Gutierrez Reed is currently in prison on manslaughter charges in connection with the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Alec Baldwin-directed film.
Hannah Gutierrez Reid, who He worked as a gunsmith on the set of the movie starring Alec Baldwin. rustA man has been sentenced to 18 months of probation after pleading guilty to bringing a gun into a Matador bar in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The 27-year-old actor is currently serving 18 months in prison after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on set. A Santa Fe jury determined that Gutierrez-Reed loaded a live bullet into Baldwin's gun, killing Hutchins.
The bar incident is said to have occurred in October 2021, about three weeks before Hutchins was killed. The indictment came out last fall, at which point the manslaughter conviction was still pending. The new guilty plea does not change the status of the previous prison sentence. The 18-month probation period will be completed in Arizona, where Gutierrez-Reed lives.
In July, Gutierrez-Reed asked to have her conviction dismissed after Baldwin’s manslaughter case was permanently dismissed. Baldwin’s defense attorneys filed an emergency motion alleging that prosecutors and investigators had withheld evidence, and the court granted the motion to dismiss with prejudice.
“This Court declared on July 12 that the integrity of the judicial system requires the court to dismiss Mr. Baldwin’s case with prejudice. How could it be any different with Ms. Gutierrez-Reed’s case, with this proven list of serious disclosure violations?” Gutierrez-Reed’s defense attorney Jason Bowles argued in a 23-page brief. “Justice demands that Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s conviction be immediately vacated, and that the legal system no longer perpetuates this fundamental affront to our system, which has been watched around the world.”
Gutierrez-Reed received the maximum sentence for her role in Hutchins' death, with Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer saying: “You single-handedly turned a safe gun into a deadly weapon. Without you, Mrs. Hutchins would be alive, her husband would have his partner, and the little boy would have his mother.”
