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Victim

Charlie Kirk

Victim. Shot once in the neck at Utah Valley University on 10 Sep 2025 while speaking at a Turning Point USA campus event. Pronounced dead the same day. Age 31.

Official

David Hull

Utah State Bureau of Investigation agent (later described as former). Key prelim witness on campus surveillance: rooftop roll-over, prone position, drop with an object, wooded area.

Commentator

Candace Owens

Commentator and former TPUSA communications director. Principal public voice arguing Robinson is a patsy and that federal evidence was concocted. Her claims are catalogued here as claims, not as the site's conclusions.

Official

Jeffrey Gray

Utah County attorney. Charged Robinson 16 Sep 2025 and announced the death penalty.

Other

Erika Kirk

Widow of Charlie Kirk. Later CEO of Turning Point USA. Crime victim in the Utah case. Has pushed for a speedy, public trial and has publicly rejected Owens' conspiracy framing.

Witness

Hunter Kozak

UVU student who was questioning Kirk about transgender mass shooters in the seconds before the shot. The timing fed motive conspiracies. Kozak later called it "the worst question" he could have asked.

Witness

Lance Twiggs

Robinson's roommate and romantic partner. State's main cooperating witness. Not charged as a co-conspirator. DNA reported on the towel wrapped around the recovered rifle.

Official

Kash Patel

FBI director during the manhunt. Tweeted a suspect in custody on 10 Sep, then walked it back within about 90 minutes. Later faced bipartisan criticism over the investigation's first hours.

Official

Judge Tony F. Graf Jr.

Fourth District judge, Provo. Presiding. Will decide probable cause / bindover after 1 Sep 2026 arguments. Has not ruled as of this file's seed date.

Defense

Kathryn Nester

Lead appointed defense counsel (Salt Lake City), appointed 24 Sep 2025. At prelim, focused on DNA, ATF fragment, and chain of custody – not on Owens' patsy theory.

Accused

Tyler James Robinson

Accused by the State of Utah of being the lone rooftop shooter. Surrendered 11 Sep 2025 in Washington County. Capital aggravated murder plus related counts. Has not been convicted. Bindover not yet ruled.

Official

Amanda Bakker

FBI DNA analyst. Testified at the July 2026 prelim about connecting Robinson to the rifle and towel mixture after Twiggs' comparison sample arrived.

Official

Jennifer Faumuina

Utah DPS / SBI sergeant. Towel DNA attributed to Twiggs plus 'very likely' Robinson. Also testified in scene collection.

Official

Spencer Cox

Utah governor. Called Robinson the only suspect. Early comments on leftist ideology and radicalization after Utah State. Not a trial witness in the public prelim recap.

Witness

Amber Robinson

Mother of the accused. Investigators say she told them her son had leaned left, become more concerned with gay and trans rights, and was dating a person transitioning. Gray used that as charging narrative, not as a lab result.

Official

Beau Mason

Utah DPS commissioner. 11 Sep briefing: good video of a college-age figure who blended in, climbed a roof shortly before noon, jumped, and fled into a neighborhood.

Official

Brian Davis

Utah SBI agent. Author of the probable-cause statement. At the July 2026 prelim he introduced the redacted recorded Twiggs interview and described use immunity.

Official

Caitlin Oliver

ATF DNA section chief. Prelim testimony: samples from the rifle were at least 1 trillion times more likely to include Robinson than not, the lab's ceiling statistic.

Official

Chris Bagley

Former UVU officer. Heard the shot, found an empty pistol holster in the grass, and did not treat it as the murder weapon because he thought the report was a rifle. Six of 15 UVU officers were working the event.

Other

George Zinn

71. Detained on campus after yelling he had shot Kirk. Later admitted the shout was to hinder police. Charged with obstruction. Separately charged, and later convicted, of sexual exploitation of a minor. Sheriff: no evidence he colluded with the shooter.

Other

Jeffrey Neiman

Attorney for Erika Kirk / the Kirk family. During prelim asked the court to make exhibits public without redactions, arguing secrecy feeds conspiracy claims.

Witness

Matthew Robinson

Father of the accused. Recognized FBI stills, confronted his son, and with a retired-deputy family friend drove him to Washington County Sheriff's Office the evening of 11 Sep 2025.

Defense

Michael Burt

Defense co-counsel. At prelim, cross-examined DNA and ballistics witnesses on lab-policy wording and evidence quality.

Official

Nate Brooksby

Washington County Sheriff who took the 11 Sep surrender after a retired deputy called him. Resigned 27 Mar 2026 over unrelated harassment / ethics complaints.

Official

Robert Bohls

FBI Special Agent in Charge, Salt Lake City. 11 Sep 2025 briefing: rifle recovered in woods, footwear / palm / forearm impressions, more than 130 tips that morning.

Official

Ryan McBride

Deputy Utah County Attorney. Conducted the recorded April 2026 Twiggs interview that was played at the preliminary hearing under an oath and use-immunity warning.

Official

Samantha Karner

ATF firearm and toolmark examiner. Defense witness at prelim. Compared the autopsy jacket fragment to the recovered rifle and reported inconclusive.