SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – Alec Baldwin fatally shot a person man or woman and wounded yet another throughout a prop gun mishap Thursday on the set of Western movie “Rust.”

The Sheriff’s Business office suggests Baldwin killed 42-year-previous Halyna Hutchins, director of photography, and hurt 48-12 months-outdated Joel Souza, the movie’s director.

Deputies responded Thursday afternoon to the Bonanza Creek Ranch in close proximity to Santa Fe, New Mexico following 911 dispatchers been given phone calls of somebody shot on the established.

The sheriff’s place of work said Hutchins was airlifted to the University of New Mexico Healthcare facility the place she was pronounced lifeless. Souza was rushed by ambulance to Christus St. Vincent Regional Clinical Heart where he is becoming dealt with for his injuries.

“According to investigators, it seems that the scene becoming filmed included the use of a prop firearm when it was discharged,” sheriff’s spokesman Juan Rios told the Albuquerque Journal. “Detectives are investigating how and what type of projectile was discharged.”

Deputies taped off a church on set which was place on lockdown, and production was halted.

Created by Joel Souza, “Rust” also stars Travis Fimmel, Brady Midday, Frances Fisher and Jensen Ackles. Filming was scheduled to carry on into November.

The film follows the tale of a notorious outlaw performed by Baldwin, 68, who goes on the operate with his 13-yr-outdated grandson just after the boy is sentenced to hold for the accidental killing of a community rancher.

As of Thursday, no costs had been filed as investigators continue to interview witnesses.

In 1993, Brandon Lee, 28, son of the late martial-arts star Bruce Lee, died just after remaining strike by a .44-caliber slug though filming a demise scene for the motion picture “The Crow.″ The gun was supposed to have fired a blank, but an autopsy turned up a bullet lodged close to his spine.

In 1984, actor Jon-Erik Hexum died after shooting himself in the head with a prop gun blank while pretending to engage in Russian roulette with a .44 Magnum on the set of the tv sequence ″Cover Up.″

The Associated Push contributed to this report.

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