LOUISVILLE (WHAS11) -- Newly released evidence is giving a clearer picture of what led up to a deadly shooting between a local gun shop owner and two brothers back in July.
"We heard a bang and I was like that sounds like a gunshot, so I, Bob, got up and he went looked out the door and said Scott hurry up there's a guy with a gun," Pearson said.
This surveillance video shows brothers Cameron and Kyle Pearson struggling in the parking lot behind William Scott Albright's gun store. Albright exits the store, and quickly raises his gun.
"I walked out he was holding the gun to his side, sort of waving it," Albright said.
"Had you ever seen these guys before?" asked the detective.
"I had never seen them before, no. I immediately drew and said, drop the gun drop the gun and he put it to his head, to his face," Albright said.
Albright is now charged with murder and first degree assault. In this interview with police, he said he told the brothers to put down the gun multiple times and that he fired to protect other people in the area, including Pearson's sister.
"I poked back around they are still sort of moving the gun around, the gun comes back pointed at me, I duck back behind the car, hear a gun shot and the third time I poked around with the gun took aim, saw the gun barrel come up and I fired three, four rounds until I saw the threat had stopped," Albright said.
Then the question from the detective, echoed by the Peasron family: Why did Albright get involved?
"Why did you feel the need to interject yourself into it?" asked the detective. "I seen a man with a gun and I knew there were people around there and I was worried about somebody getting hurt," Albright said.
The attorney for Albright, Robert Schaefer, said he received a significant amount of evidence from the prosecution. Schaefer said he has not had the opportunity to review it in detail yet or discuss it with Albright, but what he has reviewed he feels clearly supports Albright's defense.
WHAS11 also reached out to the attorney for the Pearson family, he said they have not had the opportunity to review all the evidence, so they did not have a comment.
