Alec Baldwin’s crew recorded 911 calls and audio recordings have shown desperate attempts to save their colleague. There are also allegations of negligence.
Mamie Mitchell was the film’s script supervisor after Baldwin had accidentally shot Halyna Utchins, 42, as well as Joel Souza, 48.
The tragedy occurred on Thursday as the group was filming Western films in the desert near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Mitchell, a veteran script director with credits dating back as far as 1974, calls the assistant direct and accuses them of negligence.
Mitchell calls 911 and tells her that she needs an ambulance at Bonanza Creek Ranch. Two people were accidentally shot on a movie sets.
Mitchell is talking on the phone and instructing someone else to ‘clear’ the road to allow the ambulance to access the site.
Mitchell is then taken to Santa Fe fire and emergency medical services. He sounds panicked and demands a quick response.
‘Bonanza Creek ranch. Two people were accidentally shot on a movie-set prop gun.
‘We need your help immediately. Bonanza Creek ranch. Come on.
Mitchell is then asked for her details by the 911 operators.
Mitchell, who worked on films such as No Country For Old Men, Sicario, and 3:10 To Yuma, can be heard saying, “It sounds like someone else is calling for ambulances.”
“Everybody should. We need some assistance.
“Our director and our camerawoman have been shot.”
She then asks an actor on set: “Are you going to take him on the road?”
The 911 operator asks, “So, was it loaded using a real bullet?
Mitchell replied: “I don’t know, I can’t tell you that.” Two injuries were caused by a movie gunshot.
While the phone operator is inputting the details, Mitchell can be heard telling someone else: ‘OK, this f****** AD that yelled at me at lunch asking about revisions, this motherf*****.
“Did you witness him leaning over my desk and shouting at me?” He’s supposed check the guns. He’s responsible.
According to a Santa Fe court search warrant, the gun was one among three that Hannah Gutierrez, the film’s armorer, had placed on a cart outside of the wooden structure where a scene was being performed.
Alec Baldwin, left, is seen in tears outside Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office. He accidentally shot and killed Halyna Utchins, right.
Assistant director Dave Halls took the gun from the cart, and brought it into Baldwin. He was unaware that it contained live rounds. Detectives wrote in the application.
It is not known whether Mitchell was referring Halls in the audio.
It was not known how many rounds were fired. Gutierrez took out a shell casing from her gun and turned it over to police upon arrival, according to court records.
Mitchell is confused when the 911 operator asks Mitchell how many people were hurt. Mitchell then replies, “No, not, I’m a supervisor of scripts.”
Mitchell answered the operator again. It went off while I was rehearsing, and I ran to get it. We all went there together, but we doubled up on the camerawoman as well as the director.
She tells another woman: “They are clearing roads. Can you go back? Back in the town, back at the Western camp.
Mitchell is flustered and hands the phone over.
“Hello?” The man responds, “Hello?”
“Hi, I have a list of questions that I need to ask you.” The 911 operator asks if you could answer them as best as you can. “Are they fully alert?”
The man responds: “Yes, they’re alert.”
Operator asks if bleeding is controlled. The man replies, “Let’s see what I can do to make it closer…” No.
It is unclear whether he is implying that bleeding cannot be controlled or that he is unable to get closer.
He tells the operator that he has one lying down and that they are near gate 1. They also have a van available to transport the ambulances to the exact spot.
After speaking with investigators, Baldwin was seen looking distraught outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office.
The woman calls back, saying, “Hi, I’m calling from Bonanza Creek Ranch.” We need two ambulances and not one.
The operator replied: “OK, so we’re making a call now for someone else and we’ll get 2 up to you.”
The woman, her voice straining, responds, “OK.” Is that 10 to 15 minutes?
The operator replies, “I don’t know – we’re getting them right away, to you now.”
‘What? What? The woman sounds panicked, as she talks to another person.
“We have two ambulances headed your way.”
“What?” “What?” The woman responds, and then turns to the operator, saying: “OK, thank you.”
Joel Souza, Rust’s director, is seen in November 2019. He was reportedly shot in his shoulder
The operator replied: “You’re welcome, bye.”
Mitchell later claimed that she was standing next Hutchins at the time she was shot.
Mitchell said that he ran to 911 and said, “Bring everyone, send everybody.”
“This woman is gone at her beginning of her career. She was an extraordinary, rare, and very rare woman.
Mitchell said that Mitchell and other crewmembers were attending a private funeral service Friday night in Santa Fe.
Baldwin described the killing of Baldwin as a “tragic accident.”
“There are no words that can express my shock and sadness at the tragic accident that claimed the life of Halyna Houtchins, a wife and mother, and a colleague who we deeply admire,” Baldwin wrote on Twitter. Baldwin posted on Twitter that he was fully cooperating with police investigations.
“My heart breaks for her husband, their son and all who loved Halyna.”
Juan Rios, sheriff’s spokesperson, said that Baldwin was allowed to travel and no charges were immediately filed.
‘He’s a free man,’ Rios said.