In the first elaborate presser conducted by law enforcement officials assessing the Alec Baldwin shooting incident, a suspicion of more live rounds being present on the set of Hollywood movie ‘Rust’ was floated by Adan Mendoza, the Sheriff of Santa Fe County, according to US media reports.

Sheriff Mendoza reaffirmed that the probe was still underway and did not disclose too much information about the possibility of multiple live rounds of the gun — a long Colt revolver– being present on the set, according to reports from CNN.

He further said that the suspicion can be confirmed after the crime labs can conclude their tests on evidence recovered from the site –located in United States’ New Mexico– where 42-year-old Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot last week.

Sheriff Mendoza said in a statement on Wednesday, “I won’t comment further on how they got there. This investigation is active, so I won’t comment on how they got there, but we suspect that they are there”, according to reports from CNN.

He added, “That will be determined when testing is done by the crime lab in reference to whether or not they are officially live rounds or not.”

Court records say that an assistant director, Dave Halls, grabbed the gun from a cart and handed it to Baldwin, indicating the weapon was safe by yelling “cold gun.” But it was loaded with live rounds, according to reports from Associated Press citing a written affidavit from a law enforcement official.  

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, New Mexico said they have recovered a lead projectile believed to have been fired from the gun used in the fatal movie-set shooting.

Officials probing the October 21 incident discussed their initial findings in the shooting in which Baldwin fired a gun, killing Hutchins and wounding ‘Rust’ director Joel Souza.