The Biggest Bombshells From Alec Baldwin’s Rust Shooting Trial

The Set Was Treated Like a Crime Scene

LeFleur testified that he went to his vehicle to get crime scene tape to secure the perimeter (as seen in the body-cam footage) but couldn’t remember if he was asked to or if it was just instinctual.

“I knew we needed to start one,” he said.

Alec Baldwin, seen in the footage smoking a cigarette, was not separated from the rest of the witnesses before authorities took his statement, LeFleur said, but “I did tell him to stop talking.”

The video showed that Baldwin continued to converse with first assistant director David Halls, who was sentenced to six months unsupervised probation in March 2023 after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon. Investigators determined that Halls and production armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were the last people to handle the gun that discharged the fatal bullet before it was given to Baldwin.

Gutierrez was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March and sentenced to a maximum 18 months in prison, the same sentence Baldwin is facing if convicted.

On cross-examination, LeFleur testified that he did not know, when he put the tape up, whether a crime had been committed or an accident had occurred.