On Thursday of last week, 42-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed by actor Alec Baldwin after he fired a prop gun on the New Mexico set of the film Rust. Director Joel Souza, who was standing behind Hutchins, was also wounded but has since recovered.

Information about the incident has been slowly trickling out, but some details are fuzzy and others are unverified. It's still unclear how the gun misfired, why it had potentially damaging projectiles in it, or what, exactly, Baldwin was doing when the gun went off.

Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza and Santa Fe district attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies held a joint news conference on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing investigation into the shooting incident on the movie set.

Baldwin, 63, who's said to be incredibly distraught by the incident, described the killing as a "tragic accident."

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