Photos: How Alec Baldwin mistakenly killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on movie set of #Rust!

This is really pathetic!

A distraught Alec Baldwin said on Friday there are 'no words to convey his shock and sadness' after accidentally shooting and killing the female cinematographer on the set of his new movie Rust, and that he was cooperating fully with the police investigation into what happened. Baldwin accidentally killed Halyna Hutchins, a 42-year-old married mother-of-two and the Director of Photography on his new movie on a ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Thursday at 1.50pm. 

He is believed to have fired a single round from a prop gun that somehow struck both Hutchins and the movie's director, 48-year-old Joel Souza. Witnesses cited by Showbiz 411 said the single bullet struck Hutchins in the body, and pierced Souza's clavicle. Hutchins was airlifted to the hospital but was pronounced dead. Souza was taken to the hospital by ambulance but was released on Thursday evening. Baldwin, 63, was taken to the sheriff's department to be questioned. He was released without charge after giving a tearful interview. 

Afterwards, he was photographed doubled over in shock and grief as he spoke on the phone. 

In two tweets on Friday, Baldwin said described the shooting as a 'tragic accident. 

'There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours. I'm fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred and I am in touch with her husband, offering my support to him and his family. My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna,' he said. Hutchins' grieving husband Matthew told DailyMail.com on Friday morning that he had spoken with the actor.

'I have spoken with Alec Baldwin and he is being very supportive,' he said. It remains unconfirmed if it was a live round or a blank that was fired; a prop masters' union described it on Friday morning as a 'live round' and Baldwin was heard asking people around him why he'd been handed a 'hot gun'. 'In all my years, I’ve never been handed a hot gun,' he was heard saying. 

A spokesman for both the film production and Baldwin said on Thursday night that it was an accident involving a 'gun loaded with blanks'. It is common on movie sets for actors to use real guns loaded with blanks or dummy bullets to give a more lifelike effect in shooting. 

But it remains unclear how a blank could have killed Hutchins, or how a live round accidentally ended up in the gun's chamber when Baldwin pulled the trigger. The movie's prop master - who is ordinarily in charge of the weapons - has not yet been named. 

Last month, actor Jensen Ackles told a conference in Denver how he'd been able to 'choose' his own gun from the female armorer in a haphazard training session.