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Posted: 2024-04-15T18:35:28Z | Updated: 2024-04-15T19:37:04Z

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after being found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the fatal 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film Rust.

The sentence, reported by the Associated Press, was handed down by Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer in a Santa Fe, New Mexico, court on Monday morning, over a month after Gutierrez-Reed, a movie weapons supervisor, was found guilty .

Jurors determined Gutierrez-Reed was partially responsible for the shooting, finding she unknowingly brought live ammunition to set, in violation of the productions strict ban on live rounds. The incident took place during shooting for Rust outside of Santa Fe in October 2021.

At the film shoot, Gutierrez-Reed improperly loaded the live ammunition into a prop gun, which actor Alec Baldwin was holding when the bullet that killed Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza was fired.

During sentencing, Judge Sommer placed the bulk of the blame on Gutierrez-Reed, saying, You were the armorer, the one that stood between a safe weapon and a weapon that could kill someone.