Santa Fe DA Pushes Back on Claims of ‘Sabotage’ Behind Alec Baldwin Rust Shooting: ‘We Do Not Have Any Proof’

Santa Fe County District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies took umbrage with the idea that Alec Baldwin’s fatal, accidental shooting of Halyna Hutchins was the result of “sabotage” on the Rust film set.

ABC News’ Kaylee Hartung spoke to Carmack-Altwies about the ongoing investigations into the shooting, and whether there have been any developments on who is criminally liable for Hutchins’ death. Carmack-Altwies couldn’t say how live ammunition got onto the movie set, but she then referred to “some defense attorneys [who] have come up with conspiracy theories and used the word ‘sabotage'” to describe the chain of events behind the shooting.

“We do not have any proof,” she said.

As Hartung pointed out, it is highly likely that Carmack-Altwies was referring to Jason Bowles, the attorney for Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was on Good Morning America last week. Gutierrez-Reed has come under scrutiny for her connection to the safety issues reported from the film set, and Bowles defended his client by suggesting someone might have been trying to “sabotage” the film by adding live rounds to the stockpile of dummy rounds that were being loaded into Baldwin’s gun.

Carmack-Altwies went on by flatly denying “sabotage” as a possibility behind the incident. This prompted Hartung to ask “if it were to be found that this was a case of sabotage, would you be looking at a murder charge?”

“Certainly a higher level of murder charge than we would potentially be looking at with the facts that we have now, yes,” Carmack-Altwies answered.

Watch above, via ABC.