Posted on 09/10/2025 4:33:14 PM PDT by chrisinoc
Video seemingly showing a man with a rifle being detained in the area of where Charlie Kirk was shot and killed earlier in Utah.
I haven't seen any other details on the man in the video...
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Did he escape on that bicycle?
That looks like a pellet rifle.
Wasn’t a bicycle used by the guy who tried to assassinate Trump? WAY too many coincidences.
Yep, break barrel pellet rifle.
Any idea on what rifle this is?
Most of the commentators at that site you posted thought it was an air rifle.
And likely given the accuracy of the shot from a distance—the shooter was a hit man and this guy was a decoy.
it’s definitely NOT the old fat guy dressed in blue who was detained and released earlier ...
A professional sniper would have left the rifle on top of the roof. They wouldn’t be trying to run away carrying it.
I doubt this is the guy who murdered Charlie Kirk.
I noticed the suspect was dressed in black on the roof. This man wore a white shirt. Did he wear the black shirt over his white shirt to quickly change his appearance? Did that bag the police were filling with evidence have that shirt?
That barrel is very thin at the breech, and angled open, like a pump action pellet rifle.
I doubt this as well. He’s wearing sox with like slipper shoes. Great get away outfit. Not.
Seem to be a couple of decoys. Thos has a JFK assassination feel to it.
There’s video showing that the rifle had a suppressor. You don’t do that with an air rifle, and besides, an air rifle won’t accelerate a round past Mach 1.
Is that a suppressor and would you have a one on a pellet rifle? I don’t know because I don’t have a pellet rifle.
Looks like the town drunk!
Yes, it very much looks like one, and in fact suppressors are common and generally legal on such air rifles. Check Benjamin Air Rifles, for example.
No, you wouldn’t. A pellet rifle doesn’t make a loud enough noise to warrant one. And we know that the round that struck was supersonic. A pellet rifle can’t accelerate a round that much.
That’s what I thought too.
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