With the hammer in the quarter and half cock positions, the gun “could not fire without pulling the trigger,” the report said. He added that the gun could not go off “without pulling the trigger when the hammer was struck directly.” Such a response is normal for this type of revolver, the report said. The report, first reported by ABC-TV, contradicts what Baldwin claimed in a December interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. Baldwin said at the time that he did not pull the trigger on the gun. “The trigger was not pulled,” he said. “I didn’t pull the trigger.” Reps for Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who checked the guns on set, have not responded to the report. Santa Fe County Sheriff’s investigators say they received the completed FBI forensic reports on Aug. 2, which were then sent to the New Mexico Office of the Medical Examiner for review. “OMI had informed the Sheriff’s Office that they requested these forensic reports to complete their investigation,” said a statement from the Sheriff’s Office, which received the reports Wednesday. Meanwhile, Santa Fe County Sheriffs are still working with the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department and the Office of the First District Attorney to obtain, process and release Oscar nominee Baldwin’s phone records. Once the office reviews Baldwin’s OMI and phone records, it will send the final Rust case file to the Santa Fe district attorney’s office for final charging decisions. “The DA’s office has worked with the Suffolk County PD and Baldwin’s attorney to obtain the phone records. Once Suffolk County PD has completed assisting the agency and sent these records to New Mexico law enforcement, our detectives will then need to thoroughly review these phone records for evidentiary purposes,” said Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza. The Santa Fe district attorney’s office did not respond to a request for comment on the status of the investigation. Baldwin’s attorney said in April that the OSHA investigation “exonerates” Baldwin. The report (read a summary here) concluded that management at Rust Movie Productions LLC “knew that firearms safety procedures were not being followed on set and showed a clear disregard for employee safety by failing to review work practices and obtain corrective measures’ when the fatal incident occurred on Oct. 21, when Baldwin, the star of such films as The Aviator and Boss Baby, was given the all-clear by the First AD to discharge a support weapon, which took Hutchins’ life. Recently, Rust script supervisor Mamie Mitchell’s lawsuit against Baldwin and other producers was rescheduled for September 28. Judge Michael E. Whitaker moved the hearing to give the plaintiff the option and time to file an amended complaint. Mitchell was standing next to Hutchins when he was fatally shot and claims gross negligence on the New Mexico set and that the scene for Baldwin was rehearsing never asked him to fire the gun. Anthony D’alessandro and Dominic Patten contributed to this report.
