New Unverified Surveillance Clip Sparks Fresh Controversy Surrounding Marathon Clothing Shooting

There is a whisper moving through corners of the internet that refuse to stay quiet.

A video — raw, uncut, real or digitally tampered — is being shared in private groups, on fringe forums, and in DMs between strangers who shouldn’t trust each other but do, just enough.

It’s what they’re calling the “new CCTV footage” from the day hip‑hop lost one of its brightest stars.

Some swear it’s proof of things the public was never meant to see.

Skeptics call it a hoax.

Even law enforcement won’t comment.

And somewhere between those two extremes the rumor has grown teeth.

The scene it claims to show is familiar to anyone who remembers that shocking afternoon in South Central Los Angeles: Nipsey Hussle, artist, community figure, entrepreneur, standing outside his own Marathon Clothing store, the sun slicing through March air, people milling, fans unaware of how quickly life can change.

What follows in this purported video — fragments of grainy frames, shadows flickering like ghostly patrons in an old film reel — is triggering a debate that refuses nuance.

Because the story isn’t simple anymore.

Nipsey, whose real name was Ermias Asghedom, was shot and killed outside The Marathon Clothing store / parking lot on March 31, 2019.

Eric Holder Jr. was later convicted of first‑degree murder and sentenced to 60 years to life in prison for the crime. That much is law, documented, settled in the courts.

But the footage now circulating online — shared in private channels and hinted at in cryptic posts — suggests a picture that, if real, would rewrite how many remember that day.

None of the glimpses anyone has seen offer a clear view of a face.

They’re too grainy. Too blurred.

But the timing of the clips, stitched together by anonymous posters with dramatic music and shaky text overlays, seems to place the camera eye directly on the approach, confrontation, and aftermath.

Key frames freeze on an indistinct figure stepping out of a rear alley; another shows a blur trudging back toward a vehicle; others capture panicked bodies scattering as shots ring out.

And just like that, the rumor spreads: “This is proof there was more than one shooter.” “The getaway car was waiting. ” “The police already have this. ” “This proves the whole thing was covered up. ” Some even claim the video was obtained from a store owner near the Marathon Clothing site who kept the footage hidden until now.

These whispers are unverified, and many observers online have called the entire thing a manipulated mash‑up of old, publicly available surveillance clips and unrelated footage.

The thing is, people want something to believe.

When a community loses one of its own — someone as influential and beloved as Nipsey — there’s a thirst for closure that official narratives rarely quench.

Rumors rush in to fill the silence. And so this supposed “new CCTV leak” is being treated less like evidence and more like a mirror: it reflects what people feel, what they fear, what they suspect, and what they cannot prove.

On Reddit threads dedicated to historical footage of iconic deaths, the tone vacillates between hopeful and conspiratorial.

Some users share old clips from stores near the Marathon site that did capture parts of the original incident — but those are publicly known and were released years ago by entertainment outlets as part of their reporting on the murder.

Other voices are insistently claiming that this new material shows a second figure emerging from behind a pillar before the fatal shots, something that was never in the publicly released camera angles.

Law enforcement has not confirmed any new leaks. LAPD statements on the original case focused on the investigation, the arrest of Holder, and the subsequent trial.

When asked about surveillance footage in the months after the shooting, officers indicated multiple cameras in the area captured various angles — footage that aided the investigation — but nothing like a “leak” was acknowledged.

Silence from official channels isn’t evidence of a cover‑up, of course.

It’s just silence. Witness accounts from that day were chaotic, frightened, and deeply emotional.

People described sudden noise, confusion, friends falling, adrenaline kicking in as the world dissolved into motion that no one wanted to be part of.

Those testimonies helped prosecutors build a case against Holder, but they also left room for speculation about every angle not seen by the public.

And that is where this emergent footage, real or fake, is making its mark — not in what it conclusively proves, but in how it makes people feel about what might be true.

Are elements in the video familiar from old clips that were already released? Some frames look eerily like them. Are there sequences that seem staged or obviously edited? A critical eye sees those too.

But the very fact that people are arguing over the details, dissecting every pixel as though it holds some buried truth, says less about the video itself and more about how myth