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Family Sees Shooting Video
posted 11:27 pm Thu July 24, 2008 - South Boston, VA
reporter: Ashley Singh
posted by: Webteam
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The family of the man police shot and killed outside a South Boston Sheetz have seen the surveillance video from that night and say they still don't understand how it happened. Thursday Neal Seamster's family met with prosecutors to get more details.
We talked to his aunt afterwards and she says the video didn't help, even after watching it three times. Seamster and his girlfriend were there to buy rolling papers for marijuana. Officers who were not in uniform approached their car.
The Seamster family says Neal thought he was being carjacked and drove in reverse, clipping two of the officers. That's when a third officer shot through the windshield killing Seamster. The Seamsters say the Sheetz video lasts only eight seconds, not enough time for them to figure out what was going on.
Seamster's aunt believes her nephew was in the wrong place at the wrong time and she can't understand why police had to shoot him.
Angela Meredith, Neal's Aunt - "When we watched the video, we saw one thing, they saw it another way. And they kept saying well that's perception that’s how you view it."
Police are still looking for witnesses from that night. If you have any information they ask that you call them. The family tells us the video will probably be made public next month.
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