Alec Baldwin's 2017 tweet criticizing a Southern California cop's fatal shooting has resurfaced online after the accidental on-set fatal shooting of a crew member on his latest film.
"I wonder how it must feel to wrongfully kill someone," the outspoken star actor tweeted at the time, per The Sun.
His tweet was in response to a video showing a Huntington Beach police officer struggling with a young man in front of a 7-Eleven store before drawing his gun and firing.
It's a chilling echo of what was to come, as on Thursday, October 21, Baldwin discharged a prop firearm on the set of new Western movie Rust, killing a woman and injuring a man.
Per BBC News, the woman has been named as Halyna Hutchins, a 42-year-old director of photography, and the injured man is Joel Souza, the film's director.
Hutchins was transported via helicopter to the University of New Mexico Hospital, but was later pronounced dead, per Deadline.
Souza was taken by ambulance to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, but has since been discharged, actress Frances Fisher wrote on Twitter.
The shooting happened on the film set in New Mexico, Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office said.
A spokesman for 63-year-old Baldwin, who is producing and starring in the film, said there was an accident involving the misfire of a prop gun with blanks, per BBC News.
Meanwhile, Juan Rios, a spokesman for the sheriff's office, said: "This investigation remains open and active. No charges have been filed in regard to this incident. Witnesses continue to be interviewed by detectives."
He added that detectives are investigating how and what type of projectile was discharged.
In a statement to AFP news agency, a Santa Fe sheriff spokesman said Baldwin had spoken to detectives: "He came in voluntarily and he left the building after he finished his interviews."
Police responded to the set at the Bonanza Creek Ranch at about 2 PM local time, following emergency calls of a person being shot there.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that Baldwin was seen on Thursday, October 21, outside the sheriff's office in tears but refused to comment.
The police added that the investigation remains "open and active" and that "no charges have been filed in regard to the incident" so far.