CNN —Joel Souza, the director and screenwriter of the “Rust” film, took to the stand Friday in the involuntary manslaughter trial of the film’s armorer, to testify about the moment he was shot on set.
“There was an incredibly loud bang” unlike typical discharges on set, Souza testified.
“I distinctly remember (Hutchins) being lowered to the ground, people had her sort of on either side.
“I remember initially thinking, ‘Had she been startled by it?’ and then I saw the blood on her back.” Hutchins was fatally shot during the October 2021 incident.
At the hospital, the filmmaker said did not understand he had been shot by a bullet.
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