Halyna Hutchins, the director of cinematography, and Joel Souza, the director, had been shot while rehearsing a scene on the movie “Rust.” During the initial investigation, it was determined that actor-producer Alec Baldwin was the person that fired the weapon.

Transcript More Suspected Live Rounds Were Found on ‘Rust’ Set, Sheriff Says Investigators in New Mexico recovered the lead projectile fired by Alec Baldwin that killed the film’s cinematographer and wounded its director, the revolver they believe fired the shot, as well as more possible live rounds of ammunition. Asked if it was an actual bullet that had been fired - and not a blank - he said, “We would consider it a live round, a bullet, live, because it did fire from the weapon and obviously caused the death of Ms. Baldwin had fired from the gun had been recovered from the director’s shoulder, and said that it was apparently the same round that had killed Ms. The sheriff said that the “lead projectile” that Mr. Baldwin rehearsed a scene on Thursday, killing the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, 42, and wounding its director, Joel Souza, 48. 45 Long Colt, contained a live round, Sheriff Adan Mendoza of Santa Fe County said at a news conference Wednesday.

It turned out that the gun was not “cold.” The revolver, a. “He advised he should have checked all of them, but didn’t,” according to an affidavit, which was signed by Detective Alexandria Hancock of the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office. Before he handed a revolver that he had declared “cold” to the actor Alec Baldwin on the set of the film “ Rust” last week, Dave Halls, an assistant director on the film, told a detective he should have inspected each round in each chamber, according to an affidavit that was released Wednesday.

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