FILE - Alec Baldwin performs emcee duties astatine the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award Gala astatine New York Hilton Midtown connected Dec. 9, 2021, successful New York. Baldwin has surrendered his cellphone arsenic portion of the probe into a fatal shooting connected a New Mexico movie acceptable past fall. A Santa Fe County Sheriffs Office spokesperson says Baldwins telephone was turned implicit Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, to authorities successful New York's Suffolk County and that accusation from the telephone volition beryllium provided to investigators. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) (Evan Agostini, 2021 Invision)

SANTA FE, N.M. – Alec Baldwin has surrendered his cellphone to authorities arsenic portion of the probe into a fatal shooting connected a New Mexico movie acceptable past fall, a instrumentality enforcement authoritative said.

Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Juan Rios said Baldwin's telephone was turned implicit Friday to instrumentality enforcement officials successful Suffolk County, New York, who volition stitchery the accusation from the telephone and supply it to Santa Fe County investigators, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported.

Sheriff's bureau investigators successful December obtained a hunt warrant for the phone's contents successful their probe into the Oct. 21 shooting connected the “Rust” movie acceptable astatine Bonanza Creek Ranch adjacent Santa Fe.

Baldwin was an histrion and co-producer, and the hunt warrant for his telephone sought substance messages, images, videos, calls oregon immoderate different accusation related to the movie.

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Authorities person said Baldwin’s prop revolver discharged a unrecorded circular during a rehearsal, sidesplitting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding manager Joel Souza.

Baldwin’s lawyer, Aaron Dyer, said his lawsuit had been cooperating with authorities passim the people of the investigation, and the hold successful providing accusation from the telephone was nary denotation otherwise.

“Alec voluntarily provided his telephone to the authorities this greeting truthful they tin decorativeness their investigation,” Dyer said Friday successful a statement. “But this substance isn’t astir his phone, and determination are nary answers connected his phone.”

Baldwin, who has denied immoderate wrongdoing successful the shooting, and said successful an Instagram connection connected Jan. 8 that New Mexico needed to spell done New York instrumentality enforcement and that the process of specifying precisely what is needed took time.

“They can’t conscionable spell done your telephone and instrumentality your photos, oregon your emotion letters to your wife, oregon what person you,” helium said.

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Baldwin has said helium didn’t cognize the weapon helium was holding contained a unrecorded circular erstwhile it went off. Investigators are trying to find the root of the unrecorded round.

No charges person been filed successful the shooting.

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This communicative has been corrected to amusement that the fatal shooting occurred connected Oct. 21, not Oct. 11.

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