Overview
- Filed Oct. 22 in New Mexico, the 35-page complaint names roughly 34 defendants including Alec Baldwin, armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, director Joel Souza, assistant director David Halls and Matthew Hutchins.
- Seth Kenney, owner of PDQ Arm & Prop, alleges Baldwin and others worked with media fixers and online creators to cast him in a false light and says discovery is needed to trace the alleged campaign.
- The suit asserts the production misused his rented firearm, failed to pay for it, and violated safety protocols, and Kenney says the fallout ruined his career and finances.
- Investigators have not determined how live rounds entered prop ammunition; Gutierrez-Reed was convicted and later paroled while appealing, and Baldwin’s criminal case was dismissed over withheld evidence.
- Baldwin has revived a separate lawsuit alleging prosecutorial misconduct that the state moved to dismiss on immunity grounds, and he is scheduled for a Nov. 12 Zoom deposition in a civil case brought by Halyna Hutchins’ mother and sister.