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1 UNITED STATES
Baldwin’s gun was aimed at camera, says film’s director
Actor Alec Baldwin was practising a scene that involved him pointing a gun “towards the camera lens” when it accidentally went off, killing his director of photography, according to a written statement by the film’s director, Joel Souza.
Souza said he heard what “sounded like a whip and then a loud pop”. He said he saw the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins clutch her midriff and stumble backwards. Souza noticed that he himself was bleeding from the right shoulder.
Baldwin (pictured below) was assured he was handling a “cold gun”, Souza told investigators. The film’s armourer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, checked prop weapons, and the assistant director, Dave Halls, rechecked them. It was Halls who gave Baldwin the gun, police said.
Affidavits painted a picture of a dysfunctional and feuding set, where five crew members walked out just hours before the fatal shooting at Bonanza Creek Ranch in New Mexico. They were unhappy with pay and conditions.
Halls was the subject of a complaint on a previous movie, it emerged last weekend. He did not immediately comment.
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2 BARBADOS
President elected on eve of nation becoming republic
The Caribbean island has elected its first president with just weeks to go until Barbados becomes a republic and ceases to recognise Queen Elizabeth II as
