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Baldwin faces involuntary manslaughter charge in set death

FILE - Actor Alec Baldwin attends a news conference at United Nations headquarters, on Sept. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Prosecutors linked Alec Baldwin to an expansive list of alleged failures in firearms safety as they filed a felony involuntary manslaughter charge Tuesday against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a New Mexico movie set.

Halyna Hutchins died shortly after being wounded during rehearsals at a ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe on Oct. 21, 2021. Baldwin was pointing a pistol at Hutchins when the gun went off, killing her and wounding the director, Joel Souza.

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