Rust Armourer received an 18-month sentence for the death of Halyna Hutchins

In March, the 26-year-old armourer was convicted guilty of involuntary manslaughter. On a second accusation of tampering with evidence related to Halyna Hutchins' 2021 shooting on the Rust set, she was found not guilty.

The maximum punishment that could have been given to Gutierrez-Reed was given. In July, Mr. Baldwin, 65, will also go on trial for manslaughter.

He entered a not guilty plea to the allegations. According to Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer, who imposed the sentence in a New Mexico court on Monday, Gutierrez-Reed's acts constituted a violent, significant offense that was carried out in a physically aggressive way.

Judge Sommer went to the armorer and remarked, "You alone turned a safe weapon into a lethal weapon." If it weren't for you, Ms. Hutchins wouldn't be dead.

A young child would have his mother, and a husband would have his partner." Ms. Hutchins, 42, lost her life when a gun that Mr. Baldwin had been practicing with went off on the Western set in New Mexico.

Miss Hutchins was killed on set in 2021

Gutierrez-Reed, according to the prosecution, neglected to make sure the gun was only loaded with dummy rounds, or phony bullets that are designed to look and sound real. During closing statements in the trial, prosecutor Kari T. Morrissey stated, "This case is about constant, never-ending safety failures that resulted in the death of a human being."

Ms. Morrissey told the jurors that Gutierrez-Reed was "negligent," "careless," and "thoughtless" for not realizing that live bullets had mixed with simulated rounds in a box of ammo on set. Prosecutors claimed that one of those bullets was in Mr. Baldwin's gun.

After three hours of deliberation, the jury returned a verdict in March. Both Ms. Hutchins' sister and dad expressed their "satisfaction" with the decision.

Their press release stated: "We look forward to the justice system continuing to make sure that everyone else who is responsible for Halyna's death is required to face the legal consequences for their actions."

Before she was sentenced, Gutierrez Reed addressed the court, saying that her heart aches for the Hutchins family and friends.

"The jury found me guilty; that does not make me a monster. That makes me human," she said through tears.

But Judge Sommer said she felt the armourer did not take responsibility for her actions. "I did not hear you take accountability," the judge said.

Ms Hutchins' mother and sister also spoke in recorded videos from their native Kyiv, Ukraine. The mother, Olga Solovey, said in a translated video that no one involved in her daughter's death ever reached out to express sympathy.

"It's very important to me that there is justice," she said.

During the trial, prosecutors presented evidence that Gutierrez-Reed had brought a box of live bullets to the New Mexico film set from her California home. They said these live rounds slowly spread throughout the set over the course of 12 days.

Ms Morrissey said she believed the armourer did not intend to bring live rounds to the set, but rather that Ms Hutchins' death was a case of tragic negligence.

The prosecutor added that Gutierrez-Reed was more "worried about her career" and less about the victims in the aftermath of the shootin

Gutierrez-Reed did not testify in the two-week trial, but her lawyer said in closing arguments that prosecutors had failed to prove his client was the sole person responsible for the fatal shooting.

"The [ammunition] boxes don't matter, because we don't know what was in them three or four days before," her lawyer, Jason Bowles told the jury, arguing his client did not know that there were real bullets on set.

Mr Bowles also blamed Mr Baldwin, arguing that he had "gone off-script" when he pointed the gun at film crew. "It was not in the script for Mr Baldwin to point the weapon," he said. "She didn't know that Mr Baldwin was going to do what he did."

Bowles had vowed to appeal the guilty verdict.

Gutierrez-Reed was found not guilty of evidence tampering stemming from accusations that she attempted to dispose of a small bag of narcotics after the shooting.

Last year, the movie's cast and crew finished filming in tribute to Ms Hutchins, with her husband serving as an executive producer.