Tyler Robinson judge unseals ATF report in assassination of Charlie Kirk

The Utah justice overseeing the lawsuit against Charlie Kirk's accused assassin Tyler Robinson has unsealed a ballistics study from the national Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that could not conclusively lucifer a slug fragment to the suspected execution limb but confirmed a lucifer with the spent casing.

Prosecutors person alleged that abstracted investigating recovered DNA accordant with Robinson's connected the gun, connected the towel and connected 3 of the 4 rounds inside.

The report's conclusions had already been made nationalist successful anterior tribunal proceedings, but the papers itself is present disposable from the court, and it includes immoderate caller details.

The tested worldly includes a "deformed/damaged" portion of the slug overgarment arsenic good arsenic 4 pb fragments.

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Tyler Robinson, left, is accused of fatally shooting Turning Point USA laminitis Charlie Kirk, right, astatine a nationalist speaking lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University successful September. (Bethany Baker/Reuters)

It was attached, successful part, arsenic an grounds alongside a defence question filed nether seal connected Jan. 9, asking the justice to artifact the authorities from further investigating until a defence adept had a accidental to analyse and photograph the evidence.

Judge Tony Graf ruled that determination was nary ground to support the filing classified, uncovering that it did not incorporate immoderate "private oregon inflammatory information."

An appendix to the ATF study explained that "inconclusive" findings mean that was "an examiner's sentiment that determination is an insufficient prime and/or quantity of idiosyncratic characteristics to place oregon exclude."

Two instrumentality enforcement sources acquainted with the probe told Fox News past period that the crushed the ATF was incapable to lucifer the slug to the firearm is due to the fact that erstwhile the slug impacted Kirk’s assemblage it deed bony and broke connected impact. 

Experts said this is not uncommon.

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Read the filing:

"It is not a triumph for the defense," said retired FBI supervisory cause Jason Pack. "It is simply a spread the prosecution is present moving to code by bringing successful the FBI with much precocious technology."

Ballistics are seldom the lone portion of grounds successful a homicide case, helium added. And the inconclusive uncovering lone applied to the fragment, not the casing oregon the firearm recovered adjacent the scene.

"The defence present is doing precisely what bully defence lawyers are expected to do, protecting their client’s quality to situation grounds earlier it gets further altered," Pack told Fox News Digital. "That is not a motion the prosecution’s lawsuit is weak."

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The ATF besides examined a .30-06 cartridge lawsuit that investigators wrote "was identified arsenic having been fired successful the Exhibit 1 rifle." That's the suspected execution weapon, Robinson's Mauser.

"We are a agelong mode from trial, and the nationalist should pump the brakes earlier drafting large conclusions from a azygous pre-trial question astir a azygous slug fragment​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​," Pack added.

Area wherever Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin took the fatal changeable from the extortion of Losee Center astatine UVU. (Stepheny Price/Fox News Digital)

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Robinson is accused of shooting Kirk during a Turning Point USA lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University successful September 2025. He allegedly climbed to a rooftop crossed the courtyard from wherever Kirk was speaking and fired a azygous changeable from his grandfather's Mauser rifle.

Gruesome video shows the slug struck Kirk successful the cervix successful beforehand of a assemblage of astir 3,000 people. He died from the injury.

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An approximation of the suspected movements of Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin, based connected tribunal documents, video from the country and conversations with instrumentality enforcement. (Fox News Digital)

Prosecutors person said field constabulary recovered marks near down connected the gravel rooftop moments aft the shooting "consistent with a sniper having lain [there] — impressions successful the gravel perchance near by the elbows, knees and feet of a idiosyncratic successful a prone shooting position."

Police recovered the firearm wrapped successful a broad successful a spot of woods adjacent campus. And prosecutors person said that substance messages betwixt Robinson and his romanticist partner, Lance Twiggs, allegedly sermon wanting to retrieve the rifle.

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Kathryn Nester exits Utah County District Court successful Provo, Utah connected Monday, September 29, 2025. Nester is representing Tyler Robinson, the fishy successful the assassination of Charlie Kirk. (Alec Thornock/Fox News Digital)

"Stuck successful Orem for a small portion longer yet," Robinson allegedly wrote successful the hours aft the murder. "Shouldn't beryllium agelong until I tin travel home, but I gotta drawback my firearm still."

Twiggs is cooperating with investigators and has not been charged with a crime.

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Robinson is owed successful tribunal Friday for a proceeding connected his question to exclude quality cameras from aboriginal proceedings.

He could look the decease punishment if convicted of the apical complaint against him, aggravated murder.