Alec Baldwin Kills His Cinematographer

 

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Most peculiar news: that Alec Baldwin accidentally shot the cinematographer and the director of his current film, using a prop gun. The first is dead, the second in intensive care.

It seems extremely improbable for there to have been a live round in a prop gun on set. It is doubly improbable, then, for there to have been two. It seems extremely improbable to have shot and killed one person by mistake. It seems doubly improbable—we are up to multiple improbabilities--that, having shot the first person and seeing the gun was loaded, you would still go ahead and shoot someone else—accidentally.

It seems plausible that an actor might be shot accidentally—by a prop gun no one realized was loaded, during a scene. But why would a prop gun ever been fired at the cinematographer, or the director.

Perhaps some explanation will surface. But it looks to me like murder. The only question is whether it was fully premeditated, or done in a moment of rage. 

It seems to me it must have been premeditated—it takes time and some planning to load a prop gun with real bullets. Why would anyone do it, unless murder was premeditated?

If Baldwin is not charged with murder, I suspect a fix.