US authorities have authorised a search warrant for actor Alec Baldwin’s phone in the latest development concerning a fatal shooting on the set of his upcoming western, “Rust”.
Baldwin, who was starring in and producing “Rust”, was holding a revolver which contained live rounds when it went off, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and seriously injuring director Joel Souza.
Baldwin maintains that it was Hutchins herself who asked him to point the gun just off camera and toward her armpit before it went off.
In a recent, tearful interview on network ABC Baldwin denied pulling the trigger, adding "I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them. Never.”
In the same interview Baldwin described his admiration for Hutchins and said the event was the worst thing that ever happened to him.
The “Rust” shooting which has attracted considerable controversy and Investigators have described ``some complacency'' in how weapons were handled on the New Mexico set.
