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Evidence Corroborated Circumstantial News copy physical

Practice targets at the residence

Faumuina: targets from the home search, most hits in the center, some called bullseye. Offered as shooting-skill context, not as a match to the neck wound.

Evidence Contested Direct Transcript only documentary

Keyboard note

State: auto-text at ~11 p.m. 10 Sep told Twiggs to look under the keyboard. Note (affidavit): morning mission, likely dead or prison, 'I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, and I took it.' Twiggs photographed it and put it back.

Evidence Corroborated Circumstantial Official copy digital

FBI person-of-interest stills

Released 11 Sep 2025: grainy figure in dark cap, sunglasses, long-sleeve shirt with flag/eagle. Parents recognized him. Facial recognition on the same video had failed earlier that day.

Evidence Inconclusive Circumstantial News copy physical

Empty holster in the grass

Bagley: empty pistol holster in the grass after the shot; he ignored it because the report sounded like a rifle. Nester: another officer's report said a gun was in the holster. Hull: an unfired round on a different roof was an officer ejecting a rifle cartridge.

Evidence Contested Circumstantial News copy digital

Neighborhood doorbell camera

Hull: a doorbell cam near UVU showed the suspect vehicle parked, then leaving. Loud crickets on the audio match a line in the quoted Robinson-Twiggs texts. A clip of the driver walking was described but not played in open court.

Evidence Contested Circumstantial Official copy physical

TEST SHOT casing and Dremel

Search of the St. George apartment: extra .30-06 ammo, a casing engraved TEST SHOT, engraving tools, and a Dremel Twiggs said Robinson asked for about a month earlier 'to engrave bullets' for a hunt. ATF: that Dremel made the rifle and home engravings.

Evidence Contested Circumstantial Official copy physical

Gray Dodge Challenger

8:29 a.m. campus arrival. Registered to Tyler Robinson and his mother. ~12:30 a.m. 11 Sep the same car stopped near campus, contacted an officer, then tried to turn onto a closed road. Hull: that plate later tied the driver to the shooting.

Evidence Inconclusive Circumstantial News copy physical

Burnt paper in apartment trash

Faumuina: a burnt note in a trash can at the residence. State implied a comparison to the keyboard note. Defense objected; prosecutors moved on after a sidebar. Not developed in open court.

Evidence Contested Direct Official copy physical

ATF match of home casings to recovered rifle

ATF report read in court: cartridge casings seized inside Robinson's home had been fired by the Mauser found in the woods. Separate from the inconclusive autopsy-fragment comparison.

Evidence Contested Direct Official copy physical

Recovered Mauser-type .30-06 rifle

Bolt-action hunting rifle with scope, one spent round, three unfired engraved cartridges, found wrapped in a towel in woods north of campus. State: grandfather's rifle, Robinson's DNA on trigger and parts.

Evidence Contested Direct Transcript only digital

Roommate text thread and keyboard note

Charging documents quote a Discord/SMS-style thread after the shooting: "look under my keyboard," a note about taking out Kirk, planning for a week, grandfather's rifle, "I had enough of his hatred," delete-this / stay silent. Owens says feds typed it.

Evidence Contested Direct Official copy digital

Campus surveillance of alleged rooftop shooter

CCTV the state says shows Robinson on campus four times on 10 Sep, including rolling onto the Losee roof, going prone, and dropping off with an object. Identification is the spine of the official case – and of the Owens counter-case.

Evidence Contested Direct Official copy physical

DNA on rifle, towel, casings, rooftop screwdriver

State: Robinson DNA on trigger, rifle parts, fired casing, two unfired cartridges, towel, and a screwdriver from the roof. Towel also has Twiggs DNA. Defense attacked methods, mixtures, and roommate comparison timing.

Evidence Contested Direct News copy digital

Discord "it was me at UVU" message

Reporting: in a private Discord group ~an hour after the shooting Robinson joked about a doppelgänger, then later wrote he was the person at UVU and was about to surrender through a sheriff friend. Account later suspended.

Evidence Inconclusive Circumstantial Official copy physical

Roof-edge palm print / footwear

Palm prints and smudges at the Losee roof drop point; Converse impression on the ground. State collected for comparison. Public file does not yet hold the comparison stats.

Evidence Corroborated Circumstantial Official copy documentary

Utah charging / probable-cause statement

16 Sep 2025 charges: aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm, two obstruction, two tampering, violence in presence of a child, plus targeting enhancements. Death penalty announced. Native PDFs now archived.

Evidence Corroborated Circumstantial Official copy physical

Engraved cartridge casings

Spent case: furry copypasta "Notices Buldge OWO what's this?" Unfired: Helldivers 2 500kg-bomb code, "Bella ciao," "If you read This, you are GAY Lmao." Early WSJ "trans ideology" bulletin was wrong.

Evidence Inconclusive Direct Official copy physical

ATF bullet-fragment comparison

Jacket fragment from autopsy vs the recovered rifle. ATF result: inconclusive. Defense March 2026 filing treated this as a failure to link weapon to wound. It is not an exclusion.