An aerial video image shows Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Officers responding to the scene of a fatal accidental shooting with a prop gun at movie set near Santa Fe, N.M. on Thursday.

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An aerial video image shows Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Officers responding to the scene of a fatal accidental shooting with a prop gun at movie set near Santa Fe, N.M. on Thursday.

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SANTA FE, N.M. — A woman has been killed and a man injured Thursday after they were shot by a prop firearm on the set of a movie starring Alec Baldwin outside Santa Fe, authorities said.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said a 42-year-old woman was airlifted to a hospital, where she died, while a 42-year-old man was getting emergency care at another hospital.

Authorities didn’t identify the two people, who reportedly were crew members and not actors.

Production has been halted on the Western movie “Rust,” which is being directed by Joel Souza with Alec Baldwin producing and starring in it.

A spokesperson for Baldwin said there was an accident on the set involving the misfire of a prop gun with blanks.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Officers respond to the scene of the shooting.

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The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Officers respond to the scene of the shooting.

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The Santa Fe New Mexican reported Baldwin was seen Thursday outside the sheriff’s office in tears, but attempts to get comment from him were unsuccessful.

“According to investigators, it appears that the scene being filmed involved the use of a prop firearm when it was discharged,” sheriff’s spokesman Juan Rios told the Albuquerque Journal. “Detectives are investigating how and what type of projectile was discharged.”

Deputies responded about 2 p.m. to the movie set at the Bonanza Creek Ranch after 911 calls came in of a person being shot on set, Rios said.

Filming for “Rust” was set to continue into early November, according to a news release from the New Mexico Film Office.

The movie is about a 13-year-old boy who is left to fend for himself and his younger brother following the death of their parents in 1880s Kansas, according to the Internet Movie Database website. The teen goes on the run with his long-estranged grandfather (played by Baldwin) after the boy is sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancher.