US prosecutors in Alec Baldwin case drop ‘enhancement’ charge

PROSECUTORS who have charged Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter over a fatal shooting on a movie set dropped a so-called “firearm enhancement” that carried a potential five-year sentence, officials said yesterday.

The US actor was holding a Colt .45 during rehearsals for low-budget Western “Rust” in October 2021 when it discharged, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding the film’s director, Joel Souza.