Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria were seen running errands as they geared up to leave New York City on Friday, the day after a search warrant was issued for his iPhone following the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust.
The actor, 63, was dressed in a black T-shirt and black pants as he picked up a cup of java at Think Coffee in his neighborhood, while Hilaria, 37, was spotted with two of their six children.
The outline of Baldwin’s cellphone was visible in his pocket as he walked to and from the coffee shop with disheveled hair and without a coat, despite the weather only being in the high-50s.
On the same day, he was seen loading up their SUV with bags, luggage, and a holiday wreath as they got ready to leave the city ahead of the weekend. The family was not traveling light and appeared to be leaving the city for a while.
Baldwin filled an entire SUV with just their stuff alone, and they presumably needed at least one more vehicle, possibly two, to accommodate their entire family and nannies.
Alec Baldwin, 63, was seen out and about in New York City on Friday, one day after New Mexico police issued a search warrant for his iPhone in regards to the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins
The outline of Baldwin’s cellphone was visible in his pocket as he walked to and from Think Coffee in his neighborhood
The actor loaded the car up with bags, luggage, and a holiday wreath
Meanwhile, his wife Hilaria, 37, was spotted walking with two of their six children
Hilaria, who was also wearing a mask, was seen walking with their one-year-old son Eduardo ‘Edu’ Pao Lucas strapped to her chest, with a coffee in one hand and her cellphone in the other.
She was joined by their seven-year-old daughter Carmen Gabriela.
The busy mom had on a tie-dye half-zip sweatshirt, faux leather leggings, and funky black slippers adorned with colorful baubles as she hit the streets with her kids.
The public outing came just one day after Baldwin took to Twitter to deny that he had had requested a larger Colt gun before Hutchins was fatally shot on the set of Rust.
The actor was dressed in a black T-shirt and and black pants, despite the weather only being in the mid-50s
Baldwin was still wearing his face mask when he left the coffee shop with a cup of java and a paper bag
Baldwin was sporting a bit of facial scruff when he headed out for the coffee run
He tweeted an article from Newsweek, which claimed that he had requested a bigger gun before the accidental shooting.
‘This, in fact is a lie,’ Baldwin wrote over the article link.
‘The choices regarding any props by me for the film RUST were made weeks before production began. To suggest that any changes were made “before fatal shooting” is false,’ he added.
His tweet came after Sante Fe sheriffs in New Mexico issued a search warrant for his iPhone in regards to the fatal October 21 shooting.
The search warrant authorizes police to review all text messages and photos on the actor’s iPhone, as well as any stored location data, as part of their investigation.
Hilaria had her one-year-old son Eduardo ‘Edu’ Pao Lucas strapped to her chest, with a coffee in one hand and her cellphone in the other
The mother of six was joined by her seven-year-old daughter Carmen Gabriela
On the same day, Baldwin was seen packing up his family’s SUV ahead of the weekend
The family appeared to be getting ready to leave the Big Apple for Christmas
Alec Baldwin, 63, tweeted for the first time since he and his wife, Hilaria, 37, deactivated their accounts on the social media platform on December 6. The actor labelled Newsweek’s article on his request for a larger gun after the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust on October 21st as a ‘lie’ on Thursday evening
Alec Baldwin is seen on October 21, after speaking to investigators about the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin’s phone is now being sought by the team probing Hutchins’s death
Baldwin was seen on his phone making a call shortly after the shooting.
Judge David Segura, a magistrate in Santa Fe, approved the request on Thursday afternoon.
Detective Alexandria Hancock — referred to in the warrant as the ‘affiant’ — said that they requested Baldwin hand over his phone, but the actor and his lawyers said that they require a warrant first.
‘Affiant requested Alec’s phone from him, as well as his attorney, and was instructed to acquire a warrant,’ the warrant request states.
Hancock, in the request for the warrant, spelt out in detail what she wanted to obtain from Baldwin’s phone – a list that included his contacts, call records, photos, videos, and text messages.
Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins (center) died after being shot by Baldwin during a rehearsal on October 21 in New Mexico
Halyna Hutchins was described by Baldwin as ‘fantastic’, as he paid tribute to her vision and professionalism
The set of Rust, at the Bonanza Creek Ranch outside of Santa Fe
‘Affiant is requesting a warrant for the seizure and search of Alec Baldwins’ cell phone to search for any evidence relating to the death investigation of Halyna Hutchins,’ the warrant request states.
‘Affiant believes there may be evidence on the phone, due to individuals using cellular phones during and/or after the commission of crime(s).
‘Such information, if it exists, may be material and relevant to this investigation.
‘Affiant was also made aware there were several emails and text messages sent and received regarding the movie production ‘Rust’ in the course of interviews.’
Baldwin is seen on December 9, at the RFK Ripple of Hope gala in Manhattan
She was shot just moments after the crew entered a church set to rehearse a scene (above)
According to the search warrant, Baldwin told police that he exchanged emails with the film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, regarding what style of gun to use in the film.
They ultimately decided on a Colt .45 pistol.
Baldwin had been handed the antique pistol for the scene, and was told that it was ‘cold’ — not loaded.
He was rehearsing a scene in which he pulls out his gun and, in an interview with ABC on December 2, said that he never pulled the trigger, but the gun went off anyway.
Hutchins, a 42-year-old cinematographer, was shot and killed. The director of the film, Joel Souza, was shot in the shoulder and survived.
It is unclear why it has taken so long for New Mexico police to seize Baldwin’s phone.
The actor has insisted that he has fully cooperated with the investigation.
Baldwin on December 2 gave an emotional interview to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, in which he said he did not pull the trigger, and felt no guilt because he believed he had done nothing wrong.
‘I let go of the hammer, bang. The gun goes off. Everyone is horrified. They’re shocked. It’s loud,’ he said.
Following the interview, New York Post’s Jon Levine attempted to quiz the actor about the claim.
Baldwin refused to engage, and his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, repeatedly asked the journalist to leave and ‘please go away,’ and trained her cellphone camera on him.
Levine met the couple as they were leaving Woody Allen’s townhouse, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
An irate Baldwin was caught on video lunging at a New York Post reporter while gripping an umbrella
The confrontation took place outside Woody Allen’s Upper East Side home, where reporter Jon Levine was waiting for Baldwin to quiz him about the shooting on the set of Rust
When Levine would not stop asking questions about the shooting, Alec charged at him while grasping his umbrella and yelling that he was not allowed to be on someone’s private property.
He did not make contact with the reporter, who pointed out to him that the sidewalk was, in fact, public property.
Baldwin has spoken of his devastation at Hutchins’s death, and paid tribute to her as a wonderful cinematographer and a great person.
He told Stephanopoulos that he didn’t know she’d died until hours later, at the end of his police interview when he was photographed in the sheriff’s parking lot in Santa Fe.
He said that he has been told by people ‘in the know’ that it is ‘highly unlikely’ he’ll face criminal charges.
‘Someone is responsible for what happened, and I can’t say who it is, but it’s not me,’ Baldwin told Stephanopoulos.
‘Honest to God, if I thought I was responsible I might have killed myself. And I don’t say that lightly.’
He also took a swipe at former President Donald Trump, his media foe who he impersonated on Saturday Night Live, for suggesting that he ‘loaded the gun himself.’
‘He said that I did it deliberately. Just when you think things can’t get any more surreal, here’s the president of the United States making a comment on this tragic situation.’
Baldwin spoke to George Stephanopoulos for an interview which aired on December 2
Baldwin, after the interview aired, posted to Instagram a photo of him cradling one of his six young children.
‘No matter what happens to me. No matter what I suffer. If I win or lose, anything. Anything. No one can take away from me the joy and love you have given me, @hilariabaldwin,’ he wrote.
‘These are tough times. The world is choked with fumes of hate. But you have given me a reason to live. Our life with our family is all I care about. Nothing else. I owe that to you.’
Baldwin described in detail for the first time the immediate aftermath of the accident on October 21. He was filming a scene inside a church on the set of the movie when the gun was handed to him.
‘She’s getting me to position the gun – everything is at her direction. I draw the gun, to her marker. I’m not shooting to the camera lens, I’m shooting just off. In her direction. This was a completely incidental shot, that may not have ended up in the film.’
Baldwin says he cocked the gun, and was discussing with Hutchins how it looked on camera.
‘I’m just showing. I go, ‘How ’bout that? Does that work? You see that? Do you see that?’ And then she goes, “Yeah, that’s good.”
‘I let go of the hammer, bang. The gun goes off. Everyone is horrified. They’re shocked. It’s loud. They don’t have their earplugs in.
Hutchins’ October 19, 2021 Instagram post showed cast members and staffers, including Baldwin alongside Hutchins herself and armorer Gutierrez-Reed (circled left to right) on the set of Rust in Santa Fe, New Mexico
‘No one was – the gun was supposed to be empty. I was told I was handed an empty gun. If they were cosmetic rounds, nothing with a charge at all, a flash round, nothing.
‘She goes down, I thought to myself, “Did she faint?” The notion that there was a live round in that gun did not dawn on me ’till probably 45 minutes to an hour later.’
He added: ‘Well, she’s laying there and I go, “Did she hit by wadding? Was there a blank?” Sometimes those blank rounds have a wadding inside that packs, it’s like a cloth that packs the gunpowder in. Sometimes wadding comes out, it can hit people, and it could feel like a little bit of a poke.
‘But no one could understand. Did she have a heart attack? Because remember the idea that someone put a live bullet in the gun was not even in reality.”
‘I never pulled the trigger. No, no, no. You would never do that.’
Dave Halls, the assistant director who was watching, confirmed Baldwin’s account, through his lawyer.
He said he stood over her for ‘about 60 seconds’ and was then ushered out. Was she conscious?’ Stephanopoulos asked. ‘My recollection is yes,’ said Baldwin.
He said ‘no one had any idea’ there was live ammunition used until a police officer showed a photo of the shrapnel removed from Souza’s arm.
He said then began ‘the agony, insanity, that someone put a live bullet in the gun. She was laying there and she was there for a while I was amazed at how long they didn’t get her in a car or get her out, but they waited until a helicopter came,’ he said.
‘And by the time the helicopter took off with her we were literally all glutted to that process outside.
‘When she finally left, I don’t know how long she was there for. She kept saying, she’s stable, just as you disbelieve there was a live round in the gun, you disbelieve its going to be a fatal accident.
‘At the end of my interview with the sheriff’s department, they told me ‘we regret to inform you she didn’t make it,’ they told me then and there.’
He added: ‘That’s when I went outside and called my wife.’
