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The production company behind “Rust,” the low-budget western in which actor Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming last fall, contested a New Mexico agency’s findings that it violated its own safety protocols.

On Monday afternoon, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office released a Dropbox filled with documents and video evidence from the ongoing investigation into the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, and wounding of director Joel Souza, on the New Mexico set of the Alec Baldwin film “Rust” last year.

Documents released Monday by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office revealed new details about the day Alec Baldwin accidentally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a New Mexico set last October, as well as the events preceding and following the fatal shooting.

A New Mexico county sheriff on Monday made public case files from his department's investigation of last year's shooting death on the set of the film "Rust" but said a formal decision on criminal charges would depend on analysis of ballistics, DNA and the phone of actor and producer Alec…

Actor Alec Baldwin was holding a prop gun when it was discharged - killing 42-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

State officials deliver highest level of rebuke and say production demonstrated ‘plain indifference’ to employee protection

New Mexico’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau said Rust Movie Productions must pay $136,793, and distributed a scathing narrative of safety failures in violation of standard industry protocols.

New Mexico workplace safety regulators on Wednesday issued the maximum possible fine of nearly $137,000 against a film production company for firearms safety failures on the set of “Rust” where a cinematographer was fatally shot in October by actor and producer Alec Baldwin. New Mexico’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau…

Investigation into fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on set of movie found production company ‘knew that firearm safety procedures were not being followed on set and demonstrated plain indifference to employee safety’