Dave Halls

"Halyna Hutchins was not just one of the most talented people I’ve worked with, but also a friend. I’m shocked and saddened by her death. It’s my hope that this tragedy prompts the industry to reevaluate its values and practices to ensure no one is harmed through the creative process again."

"This tragedy is overwhelming to all of us .. it's deeply saddening to my client. This idea my client grabbed the gun and handed it to Baldwin absolutely did not happen. The armorer brought the weapon in The armorer opens the firearm... [Halls] didn't load it."

"I want to start with the fact that in the affidavit it states that my client grabbed the gun off of a prop cart and handed it to Baldwin. That absolutely did not happen. That ABSOLUTELY did not happen. In addition to me presenting not only what Mister Halls has told me, we, our defense team, has interviewed witnesses and some of those witnesses that we've talked to, when we talked to them, they hadn't even been interviewed by the police yet. And those witnesses also confirm that they remember that the armer or the armer's assistant brought in the firearm, brought it onto the set. So this idea that my client grabbed the gun off of a prop cart and handed it Mister Baldwin absolutely did not happen. .. Okay, one of the problems that some of the witnesses have had is that, um... most of the crew knew each other, but not all of the crew knew the armers. So the armers were relatively new to this particular crew, and both of the armer and the assistant armer were women in their twenties. And so some of the witnesses are getting confused whether the armer came in or the assistant armer. But regardless whether it was the armer that brought the firearm on the set or the assistant armer that brought the firearms on set, my client did not bring the armer .. did not bring the firearm on set. He did not grab it from.. I have received information from crew members that the armer handed it directly to Baldwin, and then Baldwin put it inside where his, uh, holster would be, and then at some point he pulled the firearm out and he wanted to adjust, um, the holster, and then he hands the firearm to Mister Halls who immediately hands it right back after he's adjusted the holster. Other witnesses have said that, um, that the armer brought the firearm in, that they checked the firearm, that my client checked the firearm, there was another crew member who checked the firearm, and that she handed it to him like a pass-through, and that he then handed it immediately over to Baldwin because he was between the two. So I can't tell you verbatim what happened: these people are overwhelmed by the grief and the shock."

"When pressed further, the attorney said she has spoken to some crew members who remember Gutierrez-Reed handing the weapon to Baldwin while others recall seeing Halls pass it to the actor directly after being passed the weapon by Gutierrez-Reed himself."

"According to authorities in Santa Fe, four people handled the gun before the shooting: Baldwin, Halls, Gutierrez-Reed and prop master Sarah Zachry, according to Fox News."