Lawyers for Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on set for “Rust,” said Wednesday that a third party may have introduced the live round that killed Halyna Hutchins on set of the film as an act of “sabotage.”
Attorneys Jason Bowles and Robert Gorence told “Today” host Savannah Guthrie that Gutierrez-Reed loaded the gun that killed Halyna Hutchins from a box labeled “dummy rounds” and that she inspected the rounds. They said what remains unknown is how a live round wound up in a “dummy” box, and they suggested that the round could have come from someone on the production who was unhappy.