Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the Rust armorer who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins, has reportedly reached a plea deal on a separate felony charge.
Last year, a grand jury indicted Gutierrez-Reed, now 27, on a felony charge of bringing a firearm into a New Mexico bar on Oct. 1, 2021.
On Wednesday, Sept. 4, Gutierrez-Reed's legal team indicated in a court filing obtained by PEOPLE that "the State of New Mexico and Defendant have reached a plea agreement." Gutierrez-Reed has agreed to receive 18 months of probation as part of the agreement, her lawyer Jason Bowles says.
Prior to news of the agreement, the First Judicial District Court of New Mexico was expecting to hear arguments from Gutierrez-Reed's legal team on Sept. 5 about dismissing this charge.
According to previous court documents filed by prosecutors on April 12, investigators discovered a video Gutierrez-Reed took after entering a bar in which she allegedly showed a firearm and said she concealed it from security.
"Upon successfully circumventing the security at the bar she went into the restroom and made a selfie video stating, 'They checked my purse, but they didn't check my butt cheeks! 'Wah wah wah,' " those court documents asserted. "At the same time that she was speaking, she held up a nickel-plated semi-automatic pistol in front of the camera."
Gutierrez-Reed was the weapons handler on the Western film Rust. A prop gun was loaded with live rounds on the set when actor Alec Baldwin was holding it and it discharged, killing cinematographer Hutchins, 42.
She is already serving an 18-month sentence at a New Mexico women's correctional facility after her sentencing hearing in the Rust case on April 15. That sentencing marked the maximum penalty following her conviction on an involuntary manslaughter charge in March.
After Baldwin's criminal case was dismissed mid-trial in July, Gutierrez-Reed's attorneys sent a motion to the court asking that she either receive a new trial or have her conviction dismissed in light of the misconduct discovered during Baldwin's trial.
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