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		</div><p>A prop firearm discharged by veteran actor Alec Baldwin, who is starring and producing a Western movie, killed his director of photography and injured the director, police said.</p>
<p>Sheriff’s officials in Santa Fe, New Mexico, said Halyna Hutchins, director of photography for the movie Rust, and director Joel Souza were shot on Thursday.</p>
<p>Hutchins (42) was airlifted to University of New Mexico Hospital, where she was pronounced dead by medical personnel, authorities said.</p>
<p>Souza (48) was taken by ambulance to Christus St Vincent Regional Medical Centre, where he is undergoing treatment for his injuries.</p>
<p>Production has been halted on the film.</p>
<p>A spokesperson for Baldwin said there was an accident on the set involving the misfire of a prop gun with blanks.</p>
<p>The Santa Fe New Mexican reported the 68-year-old Baldwin was seen outside the sheriff’s office in tears on Thursday, but attempts to get comment from him were unsuccessful.</p>
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The International Cinematographers Guild confirmed that the woman fatally shot was Hutchins, a cinematographer.</p>
<p>“The details are unclear at this moment, but we are working to learn more, and we support a full investigation into this tragic event,” guild president John Lindley and executive director Rebecca Rhine said in a statement.</p>
<p>Hutchins was director of photography on the 2020 action film Archenemy, starring Joe Manganiello.</p>
<p>A 2015 graduate of the American Film Institute, she was named a “rising star” by American Cinematographer in 2019.</p>
<p>“I’m so sad about losing Halyna. And so infuriated that this could happen on a set,” said Archenemy director Adam Egypt Mortimer on Twitter.</p>
<p>“She was a brilliant talent who was absolutely committed to art and to film.”</p>
<p>Deputies responded about 2pm to the movie set at the Bonanza Creek Ranch after 911 calls came in of a person being shot on set, sheriff’s spokesman Juan Rios said.</p>
<p>He said detectives were investigating how and what type of projectile was discharged.</p>
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<p>“This investigation remains open and active,” Rios said in a statement.</p>
<p>“No charges have been filed in regard to this incident. Witnesses continue to be interviewed by detectives.”</p>
<p>Filming for Rust was set to continue into early November, according to a news release from the New Mexico Film Office.</p>
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