It tends to make you think the video either supports the defense or muddies up the State’s case.
If it supports the prosecution, and shows an obvious murder, it seems like they would have no problem releasing it.
Prosecution argued they did not have time to prepare video for the defense. However, the state is planning to use the video (or portions of it) during the defendant’s bond hearing tomorrow, Feb. 5.
Regardless of the video, this is damning eyewitness testimony about the shooting:
“Later, a witness recalled the shooting. James Cummings testified that Reeves seemed very agitated after Chad Oulson told him that he was texting his young daughter.”I saw popcorn going into the air but I could not tell you who threw the popcorn,” he said. “It seemed like a very very short time after that, there was a bright flash and a gun went off.”After the shooting, Cummings said, Reeves had words for Oulson.”Something like ‘Throw something at MY face?’” Cummings recalled Reeves saying.Later in the afternoon, the judge heard testimony from Sumter County Corporal Allen Hamilton, who was in the movie theater off duty when the shooting happened — just a few seats away from Chad Oulson.Hamilton’s testimony included details about the conversation between Reeves and his wife after Oulson had been shot.”He leaned toward his wife and made a comment, and she postured and said ‘that was no cause to shoot anyone.’ And then he leaned back around, stuck his finger out, as to scold her, and said ‘you shut your f***in mouth and don’t say another word.’ Reeves gets up and goes down one chair and again postures, and the look on her face, she was P.O.ed at him.”Hamilton said Oulsen was the aggressor who was shouting and cursing at Reeves in the theater.”
Link to theater shooting video, now posted on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G27d9hCjsUE&feature=youtube_gdata_player