Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson
N’dea Yancey-Bragg – USA Today March 31, 2026
Attorneys for the man accused of shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk said a federal law enforcement agency did not connect the bullet found during autopsy to the suspected murder weapon.
Tyler Robinson has been charged with aggravated murder and other felonies in Kirk’s death. Kirk, 31, was killed Sept. 10 while speaking to students at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
Authorities had said the gun used to assassinate Kirk was a Mauser 98, a common bolt-action rifle typically used for hunting. The hunting rifle, which had a heavier .30-06 caliber, dates back decades as German-made military surplus with millions produced and resold in the United States, experts told USA TODAY.
Officials recovered the weapon near the scene of the shooting with one spent cartridge in the chamber and three unfired bullets etched with meme-influenced messages.
Robinson’s attorneys said in a court filing that they have received a summary report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives “which indicates that the ATF was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr. Robinson.”
“Although the State has not indicated an intent to produce this report at the preliminary hearing, the defense may very well decide to offer the testimony of the ATF firearm analyst as exculpatory evidence,” the court filing said.
Robinson’s attorneys said the FBI is conducting a second comparative bullet analysis and a bullet lead analysis, but it was not yet complete. The defense asked Judge Tony Graf to delay the preliminary hearing, scheduled for May, in part because the team has not gotten the case files and protocols related to these analyses and other evidence from prosecutors.
The defense did, however, receive a hard drive with more than 600,000 files in a meeting March 12 with prosecutors, according to the court filing. That came on top of the 20,000 files the defense team had already received, which included 31 hours of audio and more than 700 hours of video.
Robinson’s attorneys said it would take at least 60 days to review the evidence they have and determine whether more has not yet been turned over to them.
“The defense team has devoted, and will continue to devote, significant resources to processing discovery, including identifying materials not yet received to inform readiness for the preliminary hearing,” the court filing said. “However, the defense team is realistic and the comprehensive review required to determine what is missing will take hundreds of hours.”
When asked about the defense’s characterization of the ATF report, Christopher D. Ballard, a spokesperson for the Utah County Attorney’s Office, told USA TODAY ethical rules prohibit him from speaking publicly about forensic testing and test results.
“But I can say generally that when the results of a bullet fragment analysis come back as inconclusive, that means only that the fragment did not contain enough detail for the examiner to determine whether the characteristics on the fragment were consistent with having been fired by a particular firearm,” Ballard said.
Ballard confirmed the FBI and ATF are adding information to the initial reports, which prosecutors expect will include data supporting the initial conclusions. “As soon as the State receives those supplemental reports, we will provide them to the defense,” he said.
Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray has said he will seek the death penalty for Robinson. Robinson is set to return to court April 17 for hearing on a defense motion to ban cameras from the courtroom.
Watching the videos of the guys in the stands, on the ground and on the stage exchanging obvious hand signals just before what looked like the explosion of Kirk’s clip-on microphone signaled me that something big was about to happen. And it did. They rushed his body away so fast that I couldn’t tell if he had really been injured or killed, or if it was only a well-hidden bag of fake blood that exploded. Has anybody seen video from the scene that showed his injuries?
Macaulay Culkin: Hollywood Elites Wear Shoes Made From Skin of Missing Children
April 3, 2026 Baxter Dmitry slippers
Leaked footage just dropped. Hollywood A-listers at private industry events and backstage parties… caught on camera discussing sickening rituals with missing children. They’re not just abusing them. They’re skinning them. Turning their skin into leather… and wearing them as slippers
the synagogue tunnels had childrens body part remains rememeber
Cameras in a fake courtroom? With “Fat Tony” presiding as a fake judge, his brother the DA wants the death penalty for an incident where no one has died (yet), and billions of video hours shot at the scene, no doubt from people’s iPhones. And now some one is bringing out the “exculpatory” word, which stirs everyone to squirm in their seats. Meanwhile UVU is busy auditioning more of their “students” for their next theatrics.
LOL…
The bullet they supposedly pulled out of Captain kirk was obviously one of those magic ones the spooks love so much.. you know the kind, the ones that have their own quantum entanglement field and aren’t subject to the laws of fizziks in muggle whirled… like the one Drumpf dodged*..
also when taking the calibre into account, you wouldn’t be picking it out of the Captains neck because there would have been a melon sized hole where his neck used to be… with what was left of his head flapping like an old sock…
it would be stuck in some poor sap three people deep behind him…
* lol jesse the body ventura recently confirmed my synopsis of the drumpf bullet event, going straight to the logical conclusion…the old wrestling trick of the hidden blade..which was bleedin’ obvious…
unfortunately most imbeciles think that wrestling is a sport and not a theatrical spectacle…and drumpf actually dodged a real bullet..
such stupidity doesn’t bode well for them..
Only a drooling retard could believe that Robinson was the one who actually shot Kirk.
These made for tv killings always leave us hanging.
@ Umbra…
It’s all part of the spectacle they create.. the grand event..where they spin these tales off into la la land…there’s already a dozen conspiracies to the power of ten about this bit of theater..and that’s just the way they like it..that way they can spin the plates for fucking years and years on it… every time they need a distraction or to salt a narrative.. to divide and conquer..
lol ..we’ve got the wrong bullet… pulled from his incredibly strong neck that defies the laws of physics the man was a god damn tyranosaur. but it doesn’t match..the bullet. even though we said it did and gave you the calibre…but now it’s a fucking bow and arrow..fired from a flint lock… engraved by Abraham Lincoln..while he was being shot by john wilkes booth…and now the black white nationalist lady Candy is on the case, because she sniffs a troon aboot…tuckers gonna fund it with vanderbilt cash…hopped up on alex jones penis pills and DMSO..
blah…
want the the truth…examine the actress wife and its kin.. because that’s the big blooper..that there’s all the truth you’ll ever fucking need fourteen shell companies deep… every one of ’em a langley front..
leave waxwork hands and grainy footage to the jootoob detectives..and JFK spotters..
lol..