Investigator, media will see video

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Many people still have questions about the details surrounding the events that led to the fatal shooting of 18-year-old University of South Alabama freshman Gilbert Collar by a campus police office r.

Some of those questions may be answered Thursday afternoon when surveillance tape of the shooting will be shown to the news media.

 On Wednesday, an investigator for Jere Beasley, the attorney representing the Collar family, looked at the video.

 A spokesperson for Beasley said members of the Collar family would not be looking at what was recorded by the surveillance camera.

Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran set strict ground rules for Thursday's media viewing: the media can only look at the tape.

 He said, "To protect the integrity of the evidence of the case, I'm not going to release it (the video) to where, essentially, you would be playing it over and over. And I'm not going to let you record it either, nor will I let the family record it.  However, you will be able to see it and, if you would like, to describe to your viewers and to the public just what has transpired."

Cochran also said he would not release the video to the public. However, he said the public may eventually get to see it.

 He said, "Eventually, of course, the tape will be released after the case has gone to the grand jury, or what have you. And then it becomes a public record once it goes to court, but I think it is so important for the public to understand what has happened and that we can be so totally transparent."