'Rust' Dolly Grip Recalls Fatal Shooting of Halyna Hutchins

Ross Addiego testifies that #HannahGutierrez allegedly loaded the gun that was given to #AlecBaldwin which led to death of #HalynaHutchins. In day 3 of the Baldwin Movie Shooting Trial the moments surrounding the fatal shooting on the 'Rust' set are detailed by the dolly grip.

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[CheriHammer-Sullivan]

Mr. Addiego, you have done a superlative job of speaking calmly, concisely and in translating terms we otherwise wouldn't have the meaning of. Your testimony has been most excellent.

[debbiejames]

What a great witness, I learned so much about the film industry from his testimony and he seems like a really nice and kind man.

[cats.addict]

Bless Ross Addiego for his sincere, honest and emotional testimony... he is very human and very touching!
Unlike Guttierrez who was so cold and with absolutely NO emotions

[lillybullen]

Ohhh. I do so hope that someone is there to give Ross a hug when he gets home.

[jordanleighwheatley]

This man seems so sweet. I hope he's able to work through this experience

[ypaulbrown]

My Heart goes out to Ross, experiencing this tragedy and having to
recall it for the

[wildflowerb]

Im so confused as to WHY would there be any live rounds on the movie set at all?? Someone please tell me? That girl was way too young to have that position but apparently just because her father did this in Hollywood for years they thought that made HER capable???

[Juke]

You can tell he is still traumatized by the deadly shot. I feel bad for him. 😢 he seems like a good guy.

[lindsaymccartney]

Aw bless him , hes the best witness yet what a excellent testimony, clear and precise, i can tell he's a very decent kind man

[turnthepage]

1. Master armourers belong to the union. 2. Alec side stepped the union, and hired inexperienced Hannah. Plus, he made her propmaster and armourer. 3. The union has strict safety protocols and a two-year apprentice program for armourers .4. The union requires three separate people on a weapons set; propmaster, armourer and assistant armourer.
4...So the root cause is selfishness and negligent hiring.

[ToCam-flry]

I have worked on various TV sets, not as an armorer, but as a production assistant, including on the set of the very popular police TV show Chicago PD, where the entire cast uses real, and various weapons non-stop, from various types of pistols to machine guns, and from my experience I can say that It's best when everyone on a film set has to check their guns, both armorers and actors. For extra security, just to be sure. The best-case scenario is also to hire actors who know how to handle weapons in real life.

And I must say that the cast of Chicago PD is a shining example here. The Chicago PD cast is highly trained in weapons and some of the guys there know weapons incredibly well, almost as well as professional armorers and police officers. For example, actor Jesse Lee Soffer, who plays an Afghanistan veteran and cop on the show, Jay Halstead, is an accomplished& excellent shooter in real life, knows his way around almost every gun and ammunition, and is generally very athletic, and one of the real-life veteran cops from Chicago, Brian Luce, who is the expert and producer on the show, told me that Jesse is the only one out of the cast who could be a great cop in real life.

So, it's best to have well-trained actors in movies and TV series that require using a lot of firearms, then there's nothing to worry about. And such actors exist, and still, they are later additionally trained, just like on the set of Chicago PD. The only difference is that since it's a police procedural/cop show, there were real police officers and weapons experts from Chicago working there as experts and armorers, so the training was top-notch. Rust definitely had a very chaotic, unprofessional production department and an unprofessional, irresponsible armorer. Such a tragedy would certainly not have happened if the best, most experienced weapons experts had worked on this set.

[maggiebeth]

Ross Addiego was an incredible witness, a great advocate for his deceased friend, and clearly, another victim of the consequences resulting from extreme negligence on the Rust set. The way defence council went after him was shameful and I can only imagine infuriated the jury as much as it did for those of us watching online

[bodacious]

Who let this moonbat within a 100 miles of a firearm?

[inannashu]

Poor man, having to relive that in front of everyone. Hannah not looking bothered at all.

[Jsh]

Poor guy. He’s crying. She’s sitting there stone cold.

[deliawolfe]

This man is an IATSE Union Member. In the 1980s-1990s I worked with many of these seasoned professionals and I can tell how angry and traumatized he is about the failings he describes as a witness to this senseless tragedy. Under questioning, he outlines in great detail the roles of those persons on set and specifically tells what he - in his experience - has seen and expected from someone hired as a professional Set Armorer.

[melissalichty]

I just do not understand why there would ever ever ever be any live ammunition on a movie set....so sad for everyone 😢

[metal--babble]

this guy had time to set a camera up, take it down, the reset the camara on a different apparatus. Meanwhile Hannah was "using the bathroom, aka, getting high", and never bothered to check the ammo in the gun.

[MrFreeman]

A still unanswered question: why was there a live round on a film set at the first place?
It does NOT make any sense.

[tombishop]

So only one person checks the firearm ??? When the armorer handed off the firearm it should have been checked again!