Rust Shooting Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed Released From Prison

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23-05-2025

Originally appeared on E! Online
Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is free.
The 28-year-old—who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter over the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins—was released from prison May 23, a New Mexico Corrections Department public information officer confirmed to NBC News.
Gutierrez-Reed was discharged on dual supervision, meaning she is still serving a probation term and a parole term.
In April 2024, Gutierrez-Reed was ordered to serve 18 months at a correctional facility after being found guilty by a New Mexico jury. A judge overseeing her sentencing said at the time that, as Rust's armorer, Gutierrez-Reed "turned a safe weapon into a lethal weapon" when a live round was discharged from a prop gun held by Alec Baldwin.
"I find that what you did constitutes a serious violent offense," the judge told Gutierrez-Reed. "You were the armorer, the one that stood between a safe weapon and a weapon that could kill someone."
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Baldwin also faced an involuntary manslaughter charge over the shooting. However, the case against the 67-year-old—who pleaded not guilty—was dismissed with prejudice in July 2024 after prosecutors were accused of hiding evidence.
During Baldwin's trial, crime scene technician Marissa Poppell testified that former Arizona police officer Troy Teske—a friend of Gutierrez-Reed's father, veteran Hollywood armorer Thell Reed—had given her live rounds following Gutierrez-Reed's verdict that he believed were related to the Rust case.
Poppell testified that she logged the ammunition under a different case number as a "supplemental report," but denied allegations from Baldwin's legal team that it was intentionally done so to bury it from the defense.
Baldwin's attorneys said they were never informed of the ammunition Teske provided and argued that it would've been "favorable" to the 30 Rock alum's defense had they known of its existence.
According to Baldwin's wife Hilaria Baldwin, the actor has experienced a "mental health decline" since the shooting.
"He was diagnosed with PTSD," she shared in a February episode of The Baldwins, "and he says in his darkest moments, 'If an accident had to have happened this day, why am I still here? Why couldn't it have been me?''
For more on the tragic events that unfolded on the Rust set, keep reading.
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