{"id":2378371,"date":"2026-04-18T00:04:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2378371"},"modified":"2026-04-18T00:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:04:04","slug":"alec-baldwin-ordered-to-face-civil-trial-over-fatal-rust-shooting-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/alec-baldwin-ordered-to-face-civil-trial-over-fatal-rust-shooting-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Alec Baldwin ordered to face civil trial over fatal &#8216;Rust&#8217; shooting: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/23\/entertainment\/alec-baldwin-reveals-health-struggles-after-rust-shooting-trial\/\">Alec Baldwin<\/a>\u00a0is going back to court.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/alec-baldwin-rust-shooting-civil-trial-negligence-1236724621\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Variety<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/alec-baldwin-to-face-civil-trial-in-lawsuit-from-rust-crew-member-claiming-negligence-in-2021-shooting-incident-11952960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">People<\/a>\u00a0reported Friday that a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge has ruled a civil lawsuit filed by a \u201cRust\u201d crew member can proceed to trial. <\/p>\n<p>Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died in October 2021 after a gun Baldwin was holding fired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA reasonable jury could find that Mr. Baldwin recklessly disregarded the probability that pointing a gun in the direction of someone, with the finger on the trigger, would cause emotional distress,\u201d the judge wrote in the filing, obtained by Variety.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital reached out to Baldwin\u2019s representatives for comment.<\/p>\n<p>While the\u00a0\u201c30 Rock\u201d\u00a0actor originally faced criminal charges, a Santa Fe judge <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/12\/us-news\/alec-baldwins-rust-involuntary-manslaughter-case-dismissed-in-middle-of-trial-in-shocking-twist\/\">dismissed Baldwin\u2019s involuntary manslaughter<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>charge<\/a> with prejudice in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Serge Svetnoy initially sued Baldwin back in 2021, less than a month after Hutchins\u2019 death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimply put, there was no reason for a live bullet to be placed in that .45 Colt revolver or to be present anywhere on the Rust set, and the presence of a bullet in a revolver posed a lethal threat to everyone in its vicinity,\u201d his lawsuit read at the time.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Alec Baldwin will head back to court after a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ruled that a civil lawsuit filed by \u201cRust\u201d crew member Serge Svetnoy can proceed to trial.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Svetnoy was standing behind the monitor and about six to seven feet away as Baldwin rehearsed the scene the crew was about to film. Baldwin had been practicing a cross-draw maneuver when the gun fired.<\/p>\n<p>Svetnoy, the film\u2019s gaffer, spent the next 20 to 30 minutes rendering aid to Hutchins after realizing the cinematographer had been shot. <\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until after the paramedics took over that Svetnoy understood the gravity of the situation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed in October 2021 after Baldwin fired a Colt Revolver on set. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe realized that he had been squarely in the zone of danger posed by the loaded weapon in Defendant Baldwin\u2019s hand, and what he felt pass by him from the discharge of the Colt Revolver was not mere pressurized air,\u201d the civil lawsuit read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for an inch or two, possibly less, that bullet could have ended his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/11\/11\/rust-lawsuit-serge-svetnoy-alec-baldwin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Svetnoy\u2019s lawsuit<\/a>, Baldwin was not supposed to be firing a gun in the scene they filmed on that fateful October day.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Baldwin was dismissed of an involuntary manslaughter charge in July 2024. <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe scene did not call for Defendant Baldwin to shoot the Colt Revolver, which should not have contained any live ammunition,\u201d the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin has maintained in multiple interviews he did not pull the trigger of the gun. <\/p>\n<p>The actor described the moment the gun was discharged during a TV appearance in December 2021, months after the fatal shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Svetnoy was not injured in the shooting.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alec Baldwin\u00a0is going back to court. Variety\u00a0and\u00a0People\u00a0reported Friday that a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge has ruled a civil lawsuit filed by a \u201cRust\u201d crew member can proceed to trial. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died in October 2021 after a gun Baldwin was holding fired. \u201cA reasonable jury could find that Mr. Baldwin recklessly disregarded the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2378372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[344890,21741,368323,306767],"class_list":["post-2378371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-alec-baldwin","tag-entertainment","tag-shootings","tag-trials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Alec-Baldwin-ordered-to-face-civil-trial-over-fatal-Rust.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378373,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378371\/revisions\/2378373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2378372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}