Police Get Search Warrant for Alec Baldwin’s Phone

• Law enforcement attained a lookup warrant for Alec Baldwin’s telephone on Thursday.
• Law enforcement intend to assessment all text messages on the mobile phone, as very well as location info.
• They are investigating the Oct 21 killing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Santa Fe police received a search warrant Thursday authorizing them to seize Alec Baldwin’s cellphone as aspect of their investigation into the lethal taking pictures on the established of “Rust,” in accordance to files obtained by Insider.

The look for warrant authorizes law enforcement to review all textual content messages and pics on the actor’s Iphone, as well as any saved site data, as element of their investigation into the dying of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Hutchins, 42, was killed on October 21 immediately after currently being hit by a projectile from a prop gun that Baldwin was keeping for the duration of the filming of a scene. Baldwin has mentioned he assumed the gun only contained “dummy” rounds, and has insisted that he did not pull the bring about.

Police are continue to hoping to identify how a “stay” spherical ended up in gun.

According to the look for warrant, Baldwin explained to law enforcement that he exchanged e-mail with the film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, about what style of gun to use in the film, finally selecting on a Colt .45 pistol.

Gutierrez Reed informed police that she loaded the gun with five vacant rounds ahead of lunch on the day of the taking pictures incident, for every the research warrant. Gutierrez Reed reported of the weapon that she “failed to definitely check out it much too considerably” right after lunch, including that she did have hassle loading it with yet another vacant spherical. She then additional a further, bringing the complete rounds to 6.

A lawyer for Gutierrez Reed has recommended the set could have been the victim of “sabotage.” But she herself discounted the chance that any one, in the words and phrases of the law enforcement, would “be that destructive to deliver dwell ammo onto the established.”