Live Rounds Found With Blanks on Rust Set
Investigators found live bullets along with so-called dead ones when they searched the Rust set following the shooting, Santa Fe Sherriff’s Office crime scene technician Marissa Poppell testified July 11.
There were live rounds in the prop cart, inside a munition box and in gun holsters for two actors, she acknowledged during Spiro’s cross-examination. Image shown in court showed that the live ammo had a silver dot at the bottom, while the dummies were more golden or bronze.
“Your working theory, as you evaluated the ammunition and looked at the similarity between the Starline nickel live and the Starline nickel dummies is that they could have been easily commingled there?” Spiro asked.
She said yes. Added Spiro? “In other words, somebody could have mistaken one for the other, right?”
Poppell replied, “Yes.”
According to her July 10 testimony, Poppell was the one who collected Baldwin’s shoulder holster from the church after the shooting and it held one live round of ammunition.
