A search warrant has been issued for the cellphone of actor Alec Baldwin in the investigation of Fatal shooting of a cinematographer in October On the New Mexico set of his western film Warning, court documents filed in the case were shown on Thursday.
A New Mexico prosecutor overseeing the investigation said the search warrants and accompanying affidavits were filed in Santa Fe County Magistrates Court about two weeks after some of the men who wielded guns on the film’s set faced criminal charges. death of helena hutchins,
Investigators request Baldwin’s seizure Apple To check iPhone text messages, email correspondence, social network communications, browser activity and other information on the device, according to the seven-page affidavit.
“There may be evidence on the phone due to people using cellular phones during and/or after the crime,” the affidavit said. “Several emails and text messages were sent and received in connection with film production ‘Rust’ during (police) interviews,” the document said.
Baldwin was holding a handgun on the set of the film when it went off during rehearsal, killing Hutchins.
Earlier this month, the actor said during a lengthy television interview that he never pulled the trigger, and he denied responsibility for the shooting. He had then also said that he did not know how the live rounds happened on the sets of the film.
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