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Actor Alec Baldwin, who shot and killed a woman as well as injured a man on the set of his movie “Rust,” has flashed his trademark temper again.
The 63-year-old was confronted by a reporter for The New York Post on Monday night and had to be restrained by his wife Hilaria Baldwin as he rushed at the reporter.
“Mr. Baldwin, I have to ask you, what brings you to New York City?” the reporter said as Hilaria approached him.
“I asked you to leave,” she said.
“Mr. Baldwin, who is here?” the reporter continued.
“I asked you to go away,” Hilaria responded. “Please go away.”
And then Baldwin went off the rails and began to charge at the reporter.
“You are not allowed to photograph onto somebody’s private home,” Alec Baldwin said as his wife prevented him from getting too close to the reporter. “You can’t photograph onto somebody’s private home.”
“This is public property,” the reporter said. “Who is here? Did you really not pull the trigger? Do you believe it went off without you pulling the trigger? Was it a malfunction?
But Baldwin was not answering any questions as he and his wife retreated into the house.
NEW … I ran into Alec Baldwin on the Upper East Side pic.twitter.com/8pG5Vpshw2
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) December 7, 2021
This comes after the District Attorney investigating the shooting insinuated that Baldwin could still face criminal charges for the shooting after an interview where he insisted he heard he would not face charges.
“Someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn’t even supposed to be on the property,” the actor said to ABC News host George Stephanopoulos said. “Someone is responsible for what happened, and I can’t say who that is, but I know it’s not me.”
“I don’t know what happened on that set. I don’t know how that bullet arrived in that gun. I don’t know,” he said. “But I’m all for doing anything that will take us to a place where this is less likely to happen again.”
He said he placed his faith in the professionals he had working on the set, as he shoved them under the bus.
“In terms of the handling of the gun, that day I did exactly what I’ve done every day on that movie,” the 63-year-old said. “The actor’s responsibility is to do what the prop armorer tells them to do.”
“When that person who was charged with that job handed me the weapon, I trusted them” he said. “And I never had a problem, ever.”
But then he made the statement that has ruffled the feathers of some in law enforcement who are working on the case.
“I’ve been told by people who are in the know, in terms of even inside the state, that it’s highly unlikely that I would be charged with anything criminally,” he said.
First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies appeared to respond directly to Baldwin’s interview on Friday when she said to Deadline, “certain individuals may be criminally culpable for his/her actions and/or inactions on the set of Rust.”
She said that she plans to “exercise my prosecutorial discretion to its fullest, including filing charges that are supported by probable cause,” Carmack-Altwies also said today that her office is “exploring various legal theories at the time.”
“Everyone involved in the handling and use of firearms on the set had a duty to behave in a manner such that the safety of others was protected, and it appears that certain actions and inactions contributed to this outcome,” she said.
“As the First Judicial District Attorney, I have not made a decision to charge or not charge any individuals involved in the shooting that resulted in the death of Halyna Hutchins and injury of Joel Souza,” she said.
