Search warrant issued for Alec Baldwin’s phone following fatal shooting

The tragic event happened in October this year

A search warrant has been issued by police for Alec Baldwin's phone following the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Haylna was tragically killed in October when Baldwin was holding a prop gun which misfired while mistakenly loaded with live ammunition. The search warrant was issued by the Santa Fe court in New Mexico, the same state where the incident happened during production for the western Rust. "The phone belongs to Alec Baldwin and is believed to be in his possession," reads the warrant. [caption id="attachment_306989" align="alignnone" width="2048"] Halyna Hutchins passed away in October (Photo: Getty)[/caption] The warrant has been issued due to the belief that "conversations between the affiant and Alec Baldwin being conducted through "iMessages" may exist on the phone. Baldwin has since said in his first public interview that he did not pull the trigger of the gun. "Well the trigger wasn't pulled, I did not pull the trigger," he told interviewee George Stephanopoulos of ABC. "No, no, no, no, no, I would never point a gun at anyone and pull a trigger at them, never," he continued. "Someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn't even supposed to be on the property." The film's director, Joel Souza, was also hurt during the incident but didn't suffer life-threatening injuries. Cases of deaths on film sets are unfortunately more common than you might think. Perhaps most famously, Bruce Lee's son Brandon Lee died when a real bullet was fired on the set of The Crow in 1993. What's more, an Associated Press investigation from 2016 revealed that at least 43 had people died on TV and film sets in America alone since 1990. Related links:

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