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.