New Mexico authorities said Wednesday they have recovered lead projectile believed to have been fired from the gun used in the fatal movie-set shooting.
Investigators discussed their initial findings in the shooting in which actor Alec Baldwin fired a gun, killing a cinematographer and wounding the director.
Testing is being done to determine whether the lead projectile recovered from director Joel Souza’s shoulder was fired from the gun used by Baldwin.
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said it’s too early to comment on whether any charges will be filed.
Mendoza said they recovered about 500 rounds of ammunition from the set, which is a mixture of blanks, dummy rounds and "what we are suspecting, live rounds."
He said there were three firearms recovered on the set: the gun believed to be fired by Baldwin, a revolver that appears to have some kind of modification to the cylinder, and a plastic non-functioning revolver.
"I think there was some complacency on this set, and I think there are some safety issues that need to be addressed by the industry and possibly by the state of New Mexico, but I'll leave that up to the industry and the state as to what those need to be," Mendoza said. While there is camera footage from the scene, Mendoza said there is no footage of the actual shooting.
The shooting has baffled Hollywood professionals and prompted calls to better regulate firearms on sets or even ban them in the age of seamless computer-generated imagery.
Court records say that an assistant director grabbed the gun from a cart and indicated the weapon was safe by yelling “cold gun.”
Baldwin has described the killing as a “tragic accident.”
(The Associated Press, CBS News contributed to this report.)
