Actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a New Mexico film set for the 19th Century western Rust causing the death of a woman and injury to a man.
Halyna Hutchins, 42, was shot while working on the set as director of photography. She was flown to hospital by helicopter but succumbed to injuries.
The man, 48-year-old director Joel Souza, was taken from the scene at Bonanza Creek Ranch by ambulance.
According to her personal website, Ms Hutchins was from Ukraine and grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle. She studied journalism in Kyiv, and film in Los Angeles, and was named a “rising star” by the American Cinematographer magazine in 2019.
She was the director of photography for the 2020 action film Archenemy, directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer.
Police said they were investigating and that no charges had been filed.
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