FBI Report Concludes Trigger Was Pulled On Set of Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’

Almost 10 months ago, actor Alec Baldwin’s prop gun was discharged on the “Rust” movie set, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza.

Baldwin has maintained that he did not pull the trigger of the gun, telling ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos last December that he had “no idea” how a live bullet got onto the film set, but that he “didn’t pull the trigger” on the firearm.

The FBI has now completed its forensics investigation and handed the case over to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office. According to the FBI forensic report, which was obtained by ABC News, the gun used in the fatal shooting on the New Mexico movie set could not have been fired without pulling the trigger.

With the hammer in the quarter- and half-cock positions, the gun “could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger,” the report stated.

In a postmortem report obtained by ABC News, the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator classified Hutchins’ death as an accident. (Read more from “FBI Report Concludes Trigger Was Pulled On Set of Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust'” HERE)

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