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Convicted 'Rust' Armorer Recorded Saying She Wants Alec Baldwin 'In Jail': Court Documents

Convicted “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s reported comments about Alec Baldwin could complicate the actor’s upcoming trial on an involuntary manslaughter charge.

Though prosecutors filed a motion to force Gutierrez-Reed to testify in Baldwin’s case and his lawyers have placed her on their most recent witness lists, court documents filed in April and recently obtained by HuffPost claim that the firearm specialist was recorded during a prison phone call saying she wanted Baldwin “in jail.”

The alleged comments were outlined in prosecutors’ objection to Gutierrez-Reed’s request for a conditional discharge, which would have offered her probation instead of a prison sentence.

Gutierrez-Reed was sentenced to 18 months in prison in March after being found to have negligently and unknowingly placed live ammunition in a prop gun being used on the set of the film “Rust” in 2021.

Baldwin was handling the firearm when it discharged, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza.

The prison phone calls cited in the objection did not include transcripts but extensively summarized Gutierrez-Reed’s comments in order to illustrate her lack of remorse and show she was unsuitable for conditional release.

In addition to her comments about Baldwin, Gutierrez-Reed also allegedly called special prosecutor Kari T. Morrissey a “bitch” and described members of the jury as “idiots” and “assholes.”

“Hannah says that if she is subpoenaed to Baldwin’s trial she will not show up,” another call summary stated.

During a May 14 pretrial interview, Gutierrez-Reed invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The armorer is appealing her conviction and further comments from Gutierrez-Reed are likely to

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