St. Louis police to release two videos from CVPA shooting on Wednesday

ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department plans to release two videos on Wednesday from the day of a 2022 shooting at Central Visual Performing Arts High School.

This comes after a force investigations unit officially closed the case file into the shooting on Friday.

On Oct. 24, 2022, a 19-year-old gunman, Orlando Harris, killed two people in a shooting at the south St. Louis school. Police later shot and killed Harris, who hurt seven others in the incident. Teacher Jean Kuczka and student Alexzandria Bell also died in the shooting.

SLMPD says these videos will be released on Wednesday through the department's open records portal and will be the only videos released to the public.

The first video consists of school surveillance footage and tracks movement of the armed intruder within the school. It does not include audio except a police traffic communication advising officers of an active shooter. That video is around nine minutes long.

The second video consists of bodycam footage of a responding officer arriving at the school and running onto the third floor and eventually approaching the suspect. It shows a shootout between the suspects and police officers, according to SLMPD.

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