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The Alec Baldwin shooting pieced together

🔴It is now possible to reconstruct the events leading up to the moment when cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was accidentally killed on October 21.

📸Jim Weber

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🔴Even in the run-up to Alec Baldwin accidentally shooting Halyna Hutchins dead, crew members working on the film set of 'Rust' sensed danger.

Staff had reportedly already complained of lax gun safety

Ammo left 'unsecured'

One of the people in the spotlight over the incident is chief armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed.

🔴Reports have emerged of film crew members using live bullets in the guns for target practice during their down time

But on the morning of the shoot, Ms Gutierrez-Reed told detectives that she checked all the ammunition to ensure none were "hot," according to a search warrant affidavit

'Cold gun'

As they rehearsed the scene they were about to film, assistant director Dave Halls took one of the guns – a long-barreled Colt .45 revolver - from the cart and handed it to Baldwin

🔴It was at this stage that Mr Halls should have conducted the required safety checks

A 'loud pop'

As the afternoon sun blazed down, with streams of light coming in through the windows of the chapel, Baldwin was sitting on one of the pews in the weathered wooden church

As Baldwin pulled out the gun - manufactured by an Italian company - it went off.

It is still not known whether Baldwin actually pulled the trigger, or the gun went off inadvertently

In a statement to police, Mr Souza said he heard what sounded like a "whip" followed immediately by a "loud pop".

🔎Read the full reconstruction of the moments leading up to the death of Halyna Hutchins here 👇

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