The woman convicted for an on-set death on the Western film “Rust” pleaded guilty Monday to a separate gun crime.
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 27, was convicted earlier this year of involuntary manslaughter for the death of Halyna Hutchins in 2021.
As part of that investigation, she turned over her cellphone to authorities. Cops found a video on her phone in which she bragged about brandishing a gun inside a New Mexico bar, even though bringing firearms into places with a liquor license is illegal in the state.
Gutierrez-Reed pleaded guilty Monday to violating that law, and Judge T. Glenn Ellington sentenced her to 18 months of probation. That sentence will be served concurrently with her 18-month prison term for involuntary manslaughter, meaning she’ll complete a significant portion while already behind bars.
“I’d just like to apologize to the court and thank you for your judgment today,” Gutierrez-Reed said at the hearing.
Gutierrez-Reed was the only person convicted in connection with Hutchins’ death. Though actor Alec Baldwin was holding the gun when it fired a bullet that killed Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza, his case was tossed in July due to mishandled evidence.
However, a judge ruled the same procedural error would not save Gutierrez-Reed, who investigators said brought live ammunition onto the set and loaded it into the gun that Baldwin later held. She began serving her 18-month sentence in March, immediately after she was convicted, and her appeal was rejected in September.
In addition to the 18 months of probation, Gutierrez-Reed’s plea deal bans her from possessing firearms, taking drugs and consuming alcohol. She was also fined $180.
“She’s not gotten a fair shake from the beginning,” her mother, Stacy Reed, told The Associated Press after the hearing.
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