Can someone please explain this to me?
Under pressure from Patrick McDade, the Republican nominee for Fairfax Commonwealth Attorney, the Democratic nominee Ray Morrogh was finally forced to comment publicly on the status of the controversial 2005 shooting death of Falls Church City resident Steve Cornejo.In the most heated exchange of an extensive debate that lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes, Morrogh at once shook his finger at and belittled McDade as a "rookie" for questioning the decision of the original grand jury to issue a no bill of indictment and then quickly contradicted his own criticism by acknowledging that he is, in fact, actively reviewing the grand jury charging decision in the Cornejo case
The debate was held in Reston and the video can be found at McDade - Morrogh Debate. The confrontation occurs in the tape beginning at 59:30. Previous posts and links to additional coverage of the Cornejo killing can be found here.
I watched the video, read this Falls Church News-Press article and this one in the Washington Post ("Man's Death Mystifies Friends"). I've looked at the MySpace page dedicated to Steve Cornejo. Yet, I remain puzzled as to what's really going on here. This case almost reminds me of the classic movie Rashomon, in which "A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view" yet the question remains, "Which version, if any, is the real truth about what happened?"
Is the Cornejo case like that, or is there something else going on here? Got me. How about you?