Dave Halls Claimed Gun on Alec Baldwin Set was Safe Before Giving It to Actor

This guy is in trouble.

We don’t know what happened on the set of Alec Baldwin’s production in New Mexico but we are gaining some bits of information.   It’s reported that a man on location assured Baldwin that the gun was safe to use.  The man’s name was Dave Halls.

Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer on a New Mexico film set with a gun a crew member had assured the actor was safe, a tragic mistake that came hours after some workers walked off the job to protest conditions and production issues.

An assistant director, Dave Halls, grabbed a prop gun off a cart at a desert movie ranch and handed it to Baldwin during a Thursday rehearsal for the Western film “Rust,” according to court records made public Friday.

“Cold gun,” Halls yelled, declaring the weapon didn’t carry live rounds and was ready to fire.

But it wasn’t. When Baldwin pulled the trigger, he unwittingly killed 42-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza, who was standing behind her inside a wooden, chapel-like building.

In 2000, Halls was the second unit’s first assistant director on The Crow: Salvation, the sequel to the film in which Bruce Lee’s son Brandon Lee was killed in an on-set firearms mishap in 1993.  He’s been involved in numerous movies over his career:

This does not look good for Halls.  What a tragedy. 

(This post has been updated with his previous work record.)

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