Given information from witnesses, it is being said that the armorer for the film Rust, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, was allegedly intoxicated or recovering from past alcoholic intake when loading the gun that was used on the day that Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins while on set.

Witnesses allegedly claimed that Reed “was drinking heavily and smoking marijuana in the evenings during the shooting of Rust.” As a result, have prosecutors allegedly concluded: “It is likely that Defendant Gutierrez was hungover when she inserted a live bullet into a gun that she knew was going to be used at some point by an actor while filming a shooting scene with other actors and crew members.”

Despite this development and two already existing counts of involuntary manslaughter, Reed will plead not guilty. Her attorney Jason Bowles had this to say, “The prosecution has so mishandled this case and the case is so weak that they are now resorting to character assassination tactics to further taint the jury pool…the prosecutorial misconduct in this case began at inception and has infected this prosecution at every turn…This investigation and prosecution has not been about seeking Justice; for them it’s been about finding a convenient scapegoat.” Beyond this, Bowles claims that there were problems with the collection of evidence.