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Charlie Kirk's accused assassin encountered by police during return to crime scene: law enforcement sources
Fox News ^ | September 25, 2025 | Michael Ruiz , Stepheny Price

Posted on 09/25/2025 11:24:31 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

OREM, Utah — Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused of assassinating Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University earlier this month, "made contact" with a police officer near where investigators recovered the alleged murder weapon wrapped in a towel in the woods at the edge of campus, according to two law enforcement sources.

It happened around 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 10, roughly six hours after a sniper's bullet struck Kirk in the neck as he was engaging the audience during a speaking event sponsored by the UVU chapter of his organization in Orem, Utah.

The officer was guarding the perimeter after authorities placed the campus on lockdown, and the encounter appears to have thwarted the suspect's attempt to recover the Mauser .30-06 rifle prosecutors allege was used to kill Kirk.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; charliekirk; education; tylerrobinson; utah
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More accurate information on the timeline and movements of Robinson.
1 posted on 09/25/2025 11:24:31 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

Dog returns to its vomit.


2 posted on 09/25/2025 11:30:25 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Navy Patriot

This would seem to be consistent with the text thread with his roommate indicating he tried to return but a squad car was parked near the rifle drop site.


3 posted on 09/25/2025 11:39:57 AM PDT by kneedragger111
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To: Navy Patriot

If they were smart they could have set up a steak out for anyone returning to pick up the weapon.


4 posted on 09/25/2025 11:42:25 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: kneedragger111

Sounds like roommate needs to be locked up too.
Conspiracy after the fact.


5 posted on 09/25/2025 11:47:05 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: kneedragger111

Agree.


6 posted on 09/25/2025 11:47:15 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Texas Eagle
Dog returns to its vomit.

And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire.

7 posted on 09/25/2025 11:47:20 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Telepathic Intruder
If they were smart they could have set up a steak out for anyone returning to pick up the weapon.

They could've gotten steak for the guys on the stake-out.

8 posted on 09/25/2025 11:48:48 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Just as long as they gave them time to eat it.


9 posted on 09/25/2025 11:51:07 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Telepathic Intruder

lf they put a “steak out” (including baked potato and salad) near the weapon and if I lived in the area, they would have caught me.


10 posted on 09/25/2025 11:52:06 AM PDT by JohnEBoy (I voted for Trump to be my president, not my pastor.)
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To: Navy Patriot

1.) Was the round recovered from Kirk’s neck a 30-06 caliber round?
2.) Why do the text messages between Robinson and his themfriend mention his parents trying to call and demanding pictures of the gun when they have said they didn’t suspect it was him until the next day? Where did he spend the night of the murder?
3.)Why did the video they released of the suspect running across the roof start after he was already running when the angle of the camera likely picked up the location he was in when the shot was fired? Why not release footage of the entire event?


11 posted on 09/25/2025 11:52:08 AM PDT by nitzy (I don’t trust good looking country singers or fat doctors.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
If they were smart they could have set up a steak out for anyone returning to pick up the weapon.


12 posted on 09/25/2025 11:55:08 AM PDT by brent13a
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To: Navy Patriot

Hold it

The story has changed completely?

I thought he had the rifle with him when he jumped off the roof ?

Now they say he went back but was stopped

If he was stopped , how did he get the rifle ?

to later hide it ?


13 posted on 09/25/2025 11:55:48 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: Navy Patriot

“”””Prosecutors released excerpts from a text message conversation they say Robinson had with his roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs, that occurred at an unspecified time on the evening of Sept. 10””””


For some reason, and hopefully it is for a good reason that will implicate others, the FBI is not releasing the exact time the text messages were sent.


14 posted on 09/25/2025 11:57:01 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: nitzy
Why do the text messages between Robinson and his themfriend


Because they were scripted texts by Robinson. The tranny bf had knowledge that Robinson was going to do something and they conducted a fake texting conversation afterwards to try and cover for the tranny bf knowing something.
15 posted on 09/25/2025 11:57:39 AM PDT by brent13a
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To: Telepathic Intruder
If they were smart they could have set up a stakeout for anyone returning to pick up the weapon.

I would suggest that as soon as the rifle was discovered, the evidence chain-of-custody requirement made it impossible for the rifle, or blanket it was wrapped in, to be left out-of-custody for stakeout bait.

16 posted on 09/25/2025 11:57:58 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: cuz1961
The story has changed completely?

I thought he had the rifle with him when he jumped off the roof ?


No part of the story has changed. He had the rifle when he jumped off the roof. He then hid it. He then tried to go back to retrieve it.

Thats always been the sequence of events since he was arrested.
17 posted on 09/25/2025 11:59:34 AM PDT by brent13a
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To: nutmeg

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18 posted on 09/25/2025 12:00:59 PM PDT by nutmeg (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: cuz1961
Nope, the story has not changed completely.

It was speculation that Robinson did not have the rifle when he dropped down from the roof.

19 posted on 09/25/2025 12:02:44 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: brent13a

Your right.

I misread and thought the perimeter being guarded was the campus roof.


20 posted on 09/25/2025 12:03:52 PM PDT by cuz1961
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