A video released by 9News this week sheds light on altercations in the moments before a fatal shooting outside Denver’s Civic Center Park last Saturday afternoon. 

The shooting occurred as two opposing rallies in the park dispersed. One was billed as a “Patriot Muster” and the other a “BLM-Antifa Soup Drive.” 

The video, taken on a cell phone by a 9News producer whom the station and police have not identified, shows the shooting victim — identified as 49-year-old Lee Keltner — in a confrontation with a man wearing a T-shirt that reads, “Black Guns Matter.” That man’s identity was redacted in a probable cause affidavit released Tuesday by the Denver Police Department. A third man, also with his name redacted in the document, tries to break up the argument and physically places himself between Keltner and the unidentified man.

The video shows Keltner pulling out a can of pepper spray or mace and then walking out of the camera’s view. The man wearing the Black Guns Matter T-shirt is heard saying, “Get the cameras out of here or I’m going to (expletive) you up.”

Keltner and the contracted security guard hired by 9News, identified by police as 30-year-old Matthew Dolloff, are then shown in a confrontation before the 9News producer’s video ends. The posted video states the producer stopped recording for 12 seconds and the shooting occurred in that period.

The video then includes footage taken by another observer showing the moment of the shooting. The camera angle is much further away than the producer’s video and it does not have sound, but it shows the cloud of mace or pepper spray sprayed by Keltner and Keltner collapsing after Dolloff’s gunshot.

When the producer’s video resumes, he tells responding police that he is press and says of Keltner, “That guy was going to get me” and “He maced him so that’s when he shot him.” 

Management for 9News released a statement Tuesday saying the company was not aware Dolloff was armed. Dolloff has been held since Saturday pending investigation for first-degree murder.

“9News contracted with Pinkerton and had directed that security guards accompanying our personnel not be armed,” reads the statement. “None of 9News’ crew accompanied by Mr. Dolloff on Saturday were aware that he was armed.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.