Alec Baldwin voices ‘shock and sadness’ over shooting death of Halyna Hutchins

• Actor accidentally shot and killed cinematographer on film set
• Some workers reportedly walked off in protest before incident

Alec Baldwin has expressed his deep shock and sadness" after he accidentally shot and killed his director of photography with an apparent real bullet on the set of his latest movie.

The actor was acting in or rehearsing for the western Rust when he discharged what he thought was a prop firearm. The cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally struck and the director Joel Souza was wounded, the Santa Fe sheriff's office said.