Murder trial involving misplaced video evidence will be rescheduled

A Sikeston, Missouri, murder case that involves once-missing evidence will not go to trial Monday, the Scott County Circuit Clerk's Office said.

A new trial date has not been set, the clerk's office said Thursday.

The continuance was requested by defense counsel for Antoine Harris-Applewhite of Sikeston. Harris-Applewhite faces charges of first-degree murder, armed criminal action and two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm in the Dec. 19, 2015, shooting death of Samuel Sanders outside a Sikeston liquor store.

Missing surveillance video evidence in the murder case recently was found by a Missouri State Highway Patrol investigator and turned over to defense counsel.

The evidence was discovered on a computer hard drive found not in the police station but at a different undisclosed location, defense attorney Thomas Peterson said earlier this month.

Peterson said it's unclear how video evidence once in the possession of Sikeston officers ended up being taken out of the police station and not logged into evidence.

Sikeston Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers had said repeatedly they couldn't find a thumb drive containing the surveillance video that had been requested by the defense counsel for more than two years.