Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed sobs after handing cops the pistol that killed Halyna Hutchins: 'I'm so sorry... I'm so scared'

Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is seen handing over the gun used by Alec Baldwin to accidentally kill cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, telling the officers then told crew how 'scared' she was, new videos played at her trial reveal. 

Both Reed and Baldwin are charged with involuntary manslaughter for Hutchins' death.

She is accused of flouting gun safety procedures by handing Baldwin the weapon loaded with a live round. 

'That's the gun,' Reed said, while another member of the crew held one arm around her. 

Moments later, she sobbed as she spoke with Assistant Director Dave Halls. 

'I'm so scared,' she said.  

Prosecutors painted a picture of a 'disorganized' and 'chaotic' Reed who mixed live rounds with dummy blanks on set and did cocaine the night before the shooting. 

Her attorneys, in response, told the jury that she has become the scapegoat of Baldwin's carelessness, and that he should never have pointed the gun in the victim's direction.

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 25, has entered a New Mexico courtroom to face trial for the 2021 death of a cinematographer fatally shot by Alec Baldwin during a rehearsal

Prosecutors tried to portray Gutierrez as negligent and unorganized. They showed the above image to the jury on Thursday

Baldwin was rehearsing a scene for Rust - his western movie - when he accidentally shot Hutchins. 

He maintains he thought the gun was loaded with blanks and that he'd been assured it was safe, but says he did not even pull the trigger. 

Five other live rounds were later found on the set by investigators. 

Gutierrez-Reed sat in court wearing a gray blazer and white top looking impassive as District Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer read out the charges to the jury. Opening statements were delayed on Thursday due to a juror's tardiness.

'We believe that it was the negligent acts and failures of the defendant that resulted in both the acts that contributed to Miss Hutchins' death and the live rounds being brought onto the set,' prosecutor Jason Lewis said on in the state's opening remarks.

Gutierrez-Reed’s attorneys have previously claimed that live rounds arrived on set from an Albuquerque-based supplier of dummy rounds. 

One of the prosecution's evidence photos is seen above. Authorities found six rounds of ammunition on the movie set in locations that included a box, a gun belt and a bandolier worn by Baldwin

Alec Baldwin said he had accidentally killed Hutchins and denies pulling the trigger. The jury was shown raw footage from the filmmaking process of Baldwin practicing drawing a gun while sitting on a church pew

On Thursday they put the fault on Baldwin, saying the actor 'violated basic gun safety rules' as he rushed to finish filming, and did not do training that Gutierrez had requested.

Defense attorney Jason Bowles said: ‘This scene didn't require him to draw that weapon. Instead for whatever reason Mr Baldwin pulled it out and it ends up being pointed right at Miss Hutchins and Mr Souza.’

According to Bowles, Baldwin ‘controlled the set’ as he was the lead actor and one of the producers. By pointing a gun at another person, Baldwin ‘violated some of the most basic gun safety rules you can ever learn’, Bowles said.

Prosecutor Lewis, on the state's part, said that it was a ‘fairly chaotic’ day when the shooting happened, as the evening before a group of camera operations who had ‘some concerns about safety issues on set sent an email to the production team saying they were going to be quitting.’

Baldwin, the lead actor and a co-producer on the Western movie Rust, was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins (pictured) during a rehearsal outside Santa Fe in October 2021 when the gun went off, killing her

The next day the producers decided to ‘push ahead with filming anyway and use less camera equipment’, as they tried to ‘improvise and make do with what they had’.

‘During lunch hour Miss Gutierrez took the gun from Mr Baldwin and she took it back to the safe, the gun safe that was loaded on a prop cart,' the prosecutor told the jury.

‘Once lunch was over, production decided they wanted to continue working inside the church.  At this point they weren’t filming anything. They were doing blocking, that is in film terms what you do before you get to rehearsal, a very rough rehearsal where the lighting director, camera operator are trying to get things so they can move into a rehearsal.

Gutierrez-Reed had a live round mixed with with dummy ones on set, prosecutors told the jury in her manslaughter trial on Thursday.

Lewis said that several witnesses and ‘one in particular’ will say that ‘for purposes of blocking Baldwin could have been using a stick, a rubber gun, anything that would allow him to mimic a gun.'

During the morning Gutierrez had only put five rounds in the gun Baldwin was using but for the afternoon shooting she put a sixth bullet in there, Lewis said. She took it to the church and handed it to First Assistant Director Dave Halls.

They both did a ‘sloppy and incomplete safety check of the gun, the dummy rounds were not removed and rattled,' which would have told them what kinds of rounds were in the gun.

Lewis added: ‘Instead she cracked open the gun and partially spun the cylinder to show Mr Halls a few of the rounds. They were not removed from the gun and they were not all checked.

‘After the incident happened and when Miss Gutierrez was being interviewed she stated when she removed the gun from the safe she didn’t recheck the ammunition. When she put the sixth bullet in she didn’t check the rounds at that time either.

‘Witnesses will testify when the defendant pulled the gun out of the safe, what she should have done was open the gun and checked each and every round. Then when she took it to the church she should have done a second complete ammo check with Mr Halls. This double redundancy is what helps prevent the kind of incident that occurred to Miss Huchins from happening.'