Investigators believe that Baldwin’s phone may contain information useful in resolving the case
Actor Alec Baldwin has dismissed allegations that he was uncooperative with the investigation into the shooting that killed photographer Helena Hutchins while filming Rust in New Mexico last year.
Police want Baldwin’s phone, which investigators hope will help in their investigation.
Although a search warrant was issued more than three weeks ago, officials were unable to obtain his phone.
It will take time, Baldwin says, deciding what is needed from his phone.
In a lengthy video message via his Instagram account, yesterday, Saturday, the actor said, “Any suggestion” that I deliberately evaded investigations is “a lie.”
“They can’t just look at your phone and get your pictures, your love letters to your wife, or what you have. This is a process that takes time,” he added.
“But of course we will cooperate 1,000 percent with whatever they ask,” Baldwin, 63, added.
On Friday, New Mexico law enforcement officials asked authorities in New York for help in their efforts to obtain the phone.
Mary Carmack, the district attorney who oversees the investigation, said her office is working with the New York Police Department and Baldwin’s attorney to “obtain any material from Baldwin’s phone related to the Rust investigation.”
In the search warrant issued on December 16, investigators said they were looking for any text messages, photos, video or communications related to the film’s production.
Cinematographer Hutchins died of a gunshot wound while Alec Baldwin was rehearsing the shooting scene in the movie Rust from a mock gun.
Baldwin insisted he did not pull the trigger, but a lawsuit once morest him alleges that the script did not include gunfire, when Hutchins was shot and killed.
Lawyers handling the case described the behavior of Baldwin and the film’s producers as “reckless” and accused them of failing to follow safety rules.
