Newly-released surveillance footage shows Jussie Smollett walking briskly to Subway in the middle of the night to get a sandwich wearing a cream sweater and no jacket in frigid, Chicago winter temperatures.
The footage was buried in a feed of videos, files and pictures to be released gradually by The Chicago Police Department.
It shows Smollett walking from his apartment to the Subway where he bought a tuna salad on January 29 not long before 2am.
Smollett walked north on North New Street then along to the Subway.
Around four minutes earlier, brothers Ola and Abel Osundairo were filmed walking in the opposite direction on North New Street.
Jussie Smollett is filmed walking down the street towards Subway on January 29 in the middle of the night wearing a sweater, jeans and sneakers despite the frigid conditions. It was moments before he was ‘attacked’
The Osundairo brothers were filmed walking in the opposite direction on the same street four minutes before Smollett. Their lawyer said they were doing a loop and checking out the area before the planned attack outside Smollett’s apartment nearby
It is the video from which police took a screenshot and issued in an appeal to identify the pair when they still considered Smollett a suspect.
Smollett is filmed in jeans, white sneakers and a cream and patterned knitwear sweater.
He walks quickly in the video up North New Street.
At the time, Chicago was in the midst of a severe cold snap and there was snow and ice on the ground.
The streets were almost entirely empty because of the time and temperature.
He did not see anyone as he made his way towards the end of the street before turning right to get to the Subway.
Smollett walked out of his apartment, up North New Street and along to Subway. The brothers walked south on North New Street moments earlier. He returned a different way and they were waiting for him, according to this police map of his movements
Smollett was wearing the same sweatshirt when police arrived at his apartment at around 2.40am
Four minutes earlier, the brothers were filmed walking more slowly down the street, side by side.
Their lawyer told Fox News on Tuesday that the video showed the pair walking around the area in preparation for the staged attack.
It was meant to happen hours earlier, on January 28, but Smollett was late arriving back in Chicago on a delayed flight from New York City.
Smollett maintains he knew nothing about the attack
On Tuesday, his lawyers hit out at the suggestion that the video showed him and the brothers crossing paths.
They told TMZ it had been edited together.
Smollett may face prosecution again if a special prosecutor who has been appointed to investigate State’s Attorney Kim Foxx decides that the charges should be reapplied.
He was charged with 16 counts of lying to police for allegedly paying the brothers, who he had known for months, to attack him as part of a stunt which police said he hoped would boost his salary on Empire.
In May, detectives released a swathe of reports which detailed their investigation.
Those revealed how Smollett only ‘trusted’ one of the brothers to hit him in the fake attack and that it was his idea to pour bleach.
Initially, they wanted to use gasoline but the plan changed, the investigators wrote.
When he was told the Osundairo brothers had been arrested for the ‘homophobic, racist’ attack he said he was the victim of, he reacted with: ‘It can’t be them, they’e black as sin.’
The files, which DailyMail.com has reviewed in full, also reveal how Smollett changed his story throughout the police investigation, first telling police one of his attackers was white, then ‘pale’ and admitting that he had ‘presumed’ they were white because of what he claimed they said to him – ‘This MAGA country’.
He said that his attacker had ‘pale’ skin that was visible behind the mask he was wearing, around his eyes.