investigators are always suspicious and should be suspicious and it s suspicious that that time period is not there. so, yes, i would be suspicious. and until i have the digital video system in my hand, until i can say or an investigator can say everything is in tact, this is what was recorded, i would be highly suspicious of this. reporter: so after fighting for months on a city street corner and in the county courthouse to get the survey lensz video, kendrick johnson s parents still do not know who was in the gym before kendrick ran in, nor who, if anyone, was there or what happened in those moments after. victor blackwell joins us. so what does the school district and sheriff s department say? anderson, we sent a long list of questions to both an attorney for the sheriff s office and an attorney for the school district. we have not received an answer to the question from the attorney from the her riches office but received a response from the attorney for the school district.
efforts, what the video says and doesn t say about the death of this young man. one note, in all the clips you ll see we deliberately blurred the faces of other students. here is victor blackwell. we are kendrick johnson. that s my child and we ll fight until it s over, until we get the truth. that s all we ask for is the truth what happened to kendrick job son. reporter: jackelyn johnson and her husband kenneth hope to find that truth in the video the day the 17-year-old died. look carefully, there he is in a white t-shirt and jeans carrying a yellow folder. the johnsons have this folder as the result of a lawsuit. cnn filed a motion to get access to the video. investigators told the johnsons and their attorneys that kendrick climbed into a gym mat reaching for this shoe and his death was an accident. they know their child did not climb into a wrestling mat, get
decision as to what they provide the police. reporter: after hours after analysis, fredericks questions whether lowdnes schools provided all of the video. there is a hole of time where none of the cameras provide any record that i ve been provided. reporter: fredericks has all the camera angles and all the video released by the sheriff s office. there are four cameras in the gym that records motion from when the lights turn on in the morning until when the lights are turned off at night, except for the area of interest. reporter: the moments before kendrick johnson enters the gym, look at what happens to the recordings from these four cameras in the gym. the time is recorded with the video. the first camera captures images from the start of the day until 12:04 p.m. then nothing. it picks up again at 1:09 p.m. there is consistent surveillance from the second camera until 11:05 a.m., then it stops and
for the next hour, there are multiple gaps in the video surveillance in the gym. and that is crucial. it s really important. well, it really is the only option to answer the question what happened. reporter: and there is no video showing the initial discovery of a body in the gym. the next time we see kendrick johnson is the following day when he s being wheeled out of the gym in a body bag. do you believe it s a coincidence that time period in the gym is missing? oh, boy. investigators are always suspicious and should be suspicious and it s suspicious that that time period is not there.
surveillance video the day kendrick johnson was found and asked the school board s information technology worker for a copy of the surveillance video for the entire wing of the school with the old gym for the last 48 hours. five days later, that it worker provided a hard drive, and according to the incident report, the detective verified it contained the requested video. the investigator s responsibility is to acquire the entire digital video recording system and have their staff define what they want to obtain. you don t want somebody who might be party to the responsibility to make the decision as to what they provide the police. reporter: after hours after analysis, fredericks questions whether lowdnes schools provided all of the video. there is a hole of time where none of the cameras provide any record that i ve been provided. reporter: fredericks has all the camera angles and all the