Hannah Gutierrez was responding to "untruths that person been told to the media," a connection released Thursday nighttime by her attorneys to NBC News said.
"Safety is Hannah's fig 1 precedence connected set," reads the connection from attorneys Jason Bowles and Robert Gorence. "Ultimately this acceptable would ne'er person been compromised if unrecorded ammo were not introduced. Hannah has nary thought wherever the unrecorded rounds came from."
CNN reached retired to Gutierrez's attorneys and the "Rust" accumulation bureau Friday greeting for comment.
Two unit members from the upcoming Nicolas Cage movie "The Old Way," which Gutierrez acknowledged successful a podcast was her lone erstwhile movie acquisition arsenic an armorer, told CNN that they felt she had been reckless connected that project.
But connected "Rust," the guns were locked up each nighttime and astatine lunch, and Gutierrez had nary thought however the unrecorded circular that killed manager of photography Halyna Hutchins and injured manager Joel Souza got connected set, Gutierrez's attorneys accidental successful their statement.
"Hannah and the prop maestro gained power implicit the guns and she ne'er witnessed anyone sprout unrecorded rounds with these guns and nor would beryllium licence that," the connection said, according to NBC.
The investigation into the deadly "Rust" incidental is ample and complex, Santa Fe County District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies told CNN this week, and immoderate reports of anyone shooting unrecorded rounds with the guns has not been confirmed. No 1 has been charged successful the case.
"We don't cognize however those unrecorded rounds got there," the territory lawyer said Wednesday. "And I deliberation that that volition astir apt extremity up being benignant of the linchpin for whether a determination is made astir charges."
Gutierrez's attorneys besides blasted the accumulation for information lapses, saying Gutierrez was hired to execute 2 jobs connected the movie and could not strictly absorption connected her duties arsenic armorer.
"She fought for training, days to support weapons, and due clip to hole for gunfire but yet was overruled by accumulation and her department," the connection reads.
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