‘Rust’ armorer Hannah Guitierrez-Reed now works at an Arizona tattoo shop: report

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the infamous armorer during the deadly production of low-budget western “Rust” is working at a tattoo shop in her Arizona hometown, according to a report.

According to paparazzi photos obtained by TMZ, Gutierrez-Reed was spotted leaving Belton Tattoo shop in Bullhead City, Ariz., a town located between Las Vegas and Phoenix. She is reportedly the shop’s receptionist, but it’s unknown how long she’s worked there.

The photos were taken by The Image Direct.

Gutierrez-Reed, 24, was on the on-set armorer on “Rust” and is the crew member who handed a loaded gun to assistant director David Halls before he handed it to star Alec Baldwin. The actor then shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on Oct. 21 at a ranch in New Mexico. Director Joel Souza was also injured in the shooting.

The family of Hutchins filed a wrongful death lawsuit last week accusing producers and crew members, including Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed. The paperwork alleged that Baldwin acted recklessly and, because of cost cutting, the production failed to follow industry standards for gun safety, which resulted in the cinematographer’s death.

The Santa Fe County sheriff’s office is still investigating the shooting, with a focus on how a live round got into the gun. No criminal charges have been announced yet.

“We’re used to people coming in from out of town to play cowboy who don’t know how to use guns,” Randi McGinn, the Hutchins family’s lawyer in Albuquerque, said last week. “You don’t hand somebody a gun until you give them safety training. … No one should ever die with a real gun on a make-believe movie set.”

Gutierrez-Reed is herself a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the prop weapons supplier contracted by the “Rust” production team. According to her lawsuit, Seth Kenney and PDQ Arm & Prop, his company, mismarked a box of ammunition that was brought to the set and contained live rounds.

A box of ammunition found on the set after the shooting was labeled “dummies” but actually had seven live rounds.

Kenney has denied any wrongdoing.

According to Gutierrez-Reed’s lawsuit, Kenney and Thell Reed, her father and an armorer in Hollywood, brought live ammunition to the production of Paramount Plus series “1883″ last year in Texas so actors could shoot vintage guns at a firing range.

Thell Reed told Sante Fe Sheriff’s deputies Kenney took a can of live ammunition containing 200 or 300 rounds back to New Mexico with him after the Texas trip.

Ultimately, the production safeguarded the guns on set, but not the ammunition, her lawsuit states.