Actor Alec Baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of Rust, prosecutors announced on Thursday.
“After a thorough review of the evidence and the laws of the state of New Mexico, I have determined that there is sufficient evidence to file criminal charges against Alec Baldwin and other members of the Rust film crew,” District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said in a statement.
“On my watch, no one is above the law, and everyone deserves justice.”
Ms Carmack-Altwies has also brought involuntary manslaughter charges against Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the on-set armourer who was in charge of weapons.
The film’s first assistant director, David Halls, has agreed to plead guilty to negligent use of a deadly weapon.
Ms Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was wounded when a gun Baldwin was holding during a rehearsal in October 2021 fired a live bullet.
The moment Alec Baldwin learnt of Halyna Hutchins death
The 30 Rock and Working Girl actor, who was also a producer on Rust, has denied responsibility for the shooting.
Baldwin has said he was told the gun was “cold” — an industry term meaning it is safe to use — and that he did not pull the trigger. He has sued crew members for negligence.
An FBI forensic test of the single-action revolver found it “functioned normally” and would not fire without the trigger being pulled.
New Mexico's Medical Investigator Office has ruled the shooting an accident, saying the gun did not appear to have been deliberately loaded with a live round.
Authorities have been trying to determine how a real bullet made its way to the movie set.
Ms Hutchins's family settled a wrongful death lawsuit against Baldwin and other producers last year.
Under the agreement, filming on the low-budget movie is set to resume this month, with Ms Hutchins's husband as an executive producer.
Additional reporting by Lisa Richwine
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Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
