SANTA FE (AP) – Law enforcement officials released a trove of video evidence on Monday in the ongoing investigation of a fatal October shooting of a cinematographer by actor and producer Alec Baldwin on the set of a Western movie.
Data files released by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office include lapel camera recordings taken by a commanding officer as he arrives at a film-set ranch where medics are attending to the wounded, with an evacuation helicopter whirring overhead. A search for the gun leads to the movie production’s armourer, who breaks down in tears.
Other videos show investigators as they debriefing Baldwin within hours of the fatal shooting, talking with him inside an office – and rehearsal clips that show Baldwin in costume as he practices a quick-draw manoeuvre with a gun.
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said in a statement that the investigation by his agency remains open and ongoing as it awaits the results of ballistics and forensic analysis from the FBI as well as studies of fingerprint and DNA.
