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Article snippet: SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Tex. — The scene captured by video is almost too terrible to imagine, much less contemplate watching: seven minutes of gunfire as a black-clad gunman executes his victims — many of them small children — inside the First Baptist Church here. Lock the video up forever, some Texas residents and former law enforcement officials say. Better yet, destroy it. “No one ever needs to see that,” said Charlene Uhl, whose 16-year-old daughter, Haley Krueger, was among the 26 victims of the assault. But grisly videos and other images captured by live-streams, security cameras and cellphones are increasingly becoming part of a raw historical record of mass shootings, haunting pieces of evidence left behind along with bullet fragments and bloodstains. It takes just a quick web search to find hours of black-and-white security camera footage taken during the Columbine High School rampage in 1999. Whether to ever release these videos or keep them permanently out of sight raises vexing questions. Releasing them could affect the integrity of law enforcement investigations, re-traumatize families of victims and feed online voyeurs and conspiracy theorists, officials say. But others argue that keeping the videos out of public view masks the true horror of mass shootings and allows politicians and the public to avoid confronting their bloody reality. Officials have kept videos from other mass shootings out of public view for years after the fact, including those that... Link to the full article to read more