
Evidence suggests that the bullet that killed anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk last September 10 didn’t match the rifle allegedly connected to the accused 22-year-old suspect Tyler Robinson.
In a recent filing to District Judge Tony Graf in Utah, Robinson’s lawyers wrote that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) “was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr. Robinson.” They added that the FBI is conducting a second comparative bullet analysis and a lead bullet analysis, but neither has been completed,” The Hill reported.
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Robinson’s lawyers are asking for a six-month pause in the trial to receive the ATF case files and protocols relating to the analyses and have them independently evaluated by an expert.
If his lawyers find a mismatch between the bullet and the rifle that investigators seized from Valley University in Orem, Utah, it could complicate prosecutor’s efforts to convict Robinson.
Shortly after Kirk’s public slaying, the U.S. president blamed leftists for Kirk’s death and promised to use the full power of his administration to find “those who contributed to [Kirk’s death] … including the organizations that fund it and support it.”
There is little to corroborate the presidential administration’s narrative that Robinson had been radicalized by left-wing extremists.