By Saleem Mubarak
This is the story of a young girl who bore the burden of her father at an early age and wrote history by becoming Hollywood’s first Female Armorer. But just as she would have seen her dreams turn into reality a fatal slip-up broke the world as she knew it.
Meet Hannah: The Rising Star
The girl’s name is Hannah. She has the readiness to do anything possible in order to please her father. He is so talented in his line of work that referring to him as a legend does not go beyond the mark. The work he has been doing is making him recognized as one of the most honored armorers in Hollywood.
What is an Armorer?
An armorer is the one who holds the reins of the weapons used during the production period of movie scenes. In addition, they ensure that these weapons are safe to use and are handled with kid gloves.
Hannah’s Training Begins: A Father’s Legacy
One day, Hannah’s father gets an important project. On this occasion, he decides to take his daughter along as his assistant. There, he not only teaches her the rules for handling weapons but also starts to show her all the tricks of becoming an armorer. He trains her so expertly that no one could have thought Hannah wouldn’t become a successful armorer.
Hannah’s Breakthrough: Becoming Hollywood’s First Female Lead Armorer
In just a year, Hannah gets the opportunity to work as the head armorer on a film. With this success, she became Hollywood’s first female lead armorer.
Using the training her father gave her as her weapon, Hannah begins to prove her skills. She impresses everyone with her expertise and capability on this project, and she doesn’t let her father’s expectations down.
The Biggest Opportunity of Hannah’s Career
When she was just 24 years old, fate smiled on her and she was offered her biggest opportunity—she was asked to work as the head armorer on a Western film.
This film was produced by Alec Baldwin, who also had an important role in it. This was an incredible opportunity for Hannah, the moment when she had to prove her skills and responsibilities just like her father.
Hannah’s Responsibility and Growing Unprofessionalism
Hannah immediately accepts the offer. Her responsibility is to supervise all the weapons, check each one thoroughly before use, and ensure everything is safe during production.
While working, Hannah enjoys her craft. She makes friends on set, spends time with colleagues, and sometimes even attends parties after shooting. But soon, her behavior becomes unprofessional.
The Turning Point: Hannah’s Carelessness
Gradually, Hannah begins to neglect her responsibilities. She leaves the armory cart unsupervised carelessly. Weapons are left scattered on the set, and instead of taking this important task seriously, she starts to become negligent.
The Night of the Incident: A Moment of Recklessness
Then, one night after work, Hannah goes out with her colleagues. They have a great time, drink, and even take some drugs. The next morning, she arrives at the set, but the production schedule is already delayed.
During rehearsal, the assistant director suddenly gets angry with Hannah and loudly demands a revolver immediately.
The Fateful Mistake: Live Rounds in the Armory
Hannah quickly runs toward the armory cart to grab the revolver. But in her haste and carelessness, something happens that shakes Hannah’s world.
This is the moment when everything goes wrong, and things spiral out of control. Hannah makes such a careless mistake that she has been suffering the consequences ever since.
The Tragic Accident: A Life Lost
You see, this is a film set, and the revolver actually had dummy rounds—rounds that look like real bullets but are harmless.
However, it’s unclear how or why live bullets ended up on set, and one was mistakenly mixed with the dummy rounds. Without realizing it, Hannah loads a live bullet into the revolver.
The Fatal Shot: How It Happened
Hannah, as usual, takes the revolver from the safe and hands it to the assistant director, but she doesn’t check whether the rounds are really dummy or not. The assistant director doesn’t check it either, and then he hands the revolver to Alec Baldwin. Alec Baldwin doesn’t check it either because he’s preparing for the scene.
The Aftermath: Chaos and Tragedy on Set
Then, during the scene, the cinematographer, named Helena, who was operating the camera, starts giving Alec instructions. She tells him, “Okay, point this weapon under my arm.”
As she directs Alec on where to aim, suddenly the revolver fires, and the entire room falls silent, as though a natural disaster has occurred.
Emergency Response: The Aftermath of the Shooting
As soon as the shot is fired, Helena falls to the ground—she has been shot. Alec Baldwin, seeing the commotion, asks, “Did she faint? Did she have a heart attack? What’s happening?”
And that’s when the rest of the crew sees Helena and the film’s director, Joel, lying on the floor. A bullet passes through Helena’s right side of the chest and hits Joel in the shoulder. Both are severely injured, but Helena loses consciousness.
The Police Investigation: A Devastating Outcome
After a while, someone calls 911, and the police arrive on the scene immediately. A helicopter arrives to take Helena to a nearby hospital, while an ambulance takes Joel away.
Joel eventually recovers, but the police begin questioning Alec Baldwin, and this is the moment when Hannah hears the heartbreaking news—Helena has passed away.
Hannah’s Mistake Comes to Light
The police then begin questioning Hannah, as she was the armorer on set and could be held responsible for the incident. This is the moment when everything falls apart, and the serious consequences of Hannah’s mistake begin to unfold.
The Fallout: Hannah Faces the Consequences
As you can imagine, Hannah is in severe distress and anxiety as she speaks with the police. She says to herself, “I am the only female armorer in this industry, and I’ve ruined my entire career.”
The police officer asks, “Did you study armory? Did you take any classes, or how did you get into this field?” Hannah responds, “My father is the best in the field and one of the best armorers in the world. He trained me,” but now she says, “I’ll be known as a failed armorer in this field.”
The Global Attention: Alec Baldwin’s Crisis
This story captures the attention of the entire world and immediately spreads across the news. Alec Baldwin, who shot Helena, is facing a crisis of his own and has to work hard to recover.
He gives a major interview on a channel where he appears visibly distressed, but he insists that he didn’t pull the trigger: he repeatedly says, “I didn’t pull the trigger. I didn’t pull the trigger.”
The Investigation Continues: Uncovering the Truth
The police officer asks him again, “Did you never pull the trigger?” Alec Baldwin immediately replies, “No, no, no, never. I would never shoot anyone.”
However, he admits that he did pull the hammer back, which is the part that strikes hard and causes the bullet to fire. It’s suggested that pulling the hammer back was the cause of the shot being fired. However, the entire case remains controversial and unresolved.
The Legal Battle: Hannah’s Involuntary Manslaughter Charge
Eventually, after a year of investigation, a 500-page report on the incident was submitted by the local police. Some time later, Hannah was accused of involuntary manslaughter, which became the worst image of her in the film industry.
She felt sleepy and had to admit that she committed a grave error. Consequently, she was arrested for involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to 18 months behind bars.
The Twist: New Evidence Emerges in Baldwin’s Case
However, another defendant is Alec Baldwin, who is also charged with involuntary manslaughter, although he maintains that he did not commit a criminal act. Again, the plot thickens as new information is presented in Alec Baldwin’s trial, changing everything.
The evidence showed that more live bullets were found on set and that the prosecuting attorney hadn’t presented them properly in court, raising suspicions that they were deliberately hidden from the court.
The Verdict: Baldwin Acquitted and Hannah’s Possible Release
With this new evidence, the judge completely dismissed the case against Baldwin. This ruling meant that Alec Baldwin was legally acquitted, and he could never be tried again.
The judge took a stern stance on the matter and was harsh about the concealment of evidence. This was a huge win for Baldwin.
Now that Baldwin has been acquitted, Hannah’s lawyers are trying to get her case dismissed based on the new evidence. If this happens, Hannah may have a chance to be released from prison.
