Earlier today, a New Mexico court shut down a request from the attorneys for Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who had been asking that the case against her—i.e., the involuntary manslaughter of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, killed on the movie’s set in October of 2021—be thrown out of court.
Some of the most damning stuff in the piece is easy to fact-check, and pretty shocking: Gutierrez-Reed, for instance, only got the job—her second armorer job while working solo, outside the mentorship of her step-father, veteran industry armorer Thell Reed—because multiple, more experienced armorers turned it down.