Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the program. Now
Speaker 1: that the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearings over, the prosecution has
Speaker 1: filed what's called a memorandum in support of a preliminary
Speaker 1: hearing bind over, and that's the document that we're going
Speaker 1: to begin taking a look at in this episode. So
Speaker 1: let's dive right in Case number two five one, four zero, three,
Speaker 1: five seven six, State of Utah Plaintiff first Tyler James Robinson,
Speaker 1: the defendant. After taking evidence at the five day prelim
Speaker 1: hearing July sixth through tenth, twenty twenty six, this court,
Speaker 1: acting as magistrate, asked the parties to brief the matter introduction.
Speaker 1: This is likely as straightforward a bindover decision as the
Speaker 1: court we'll ever see. After admitting to several friends, including
Speaker 1: his roommate and romantic partner, that he assassinated Charlie Kirk
Speaker 1: at Utah Valley University on September tenth, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: and from approximately three thousand eye witnesses, defendant surrendered to
Speaker 1: law enforcement for that crime. These admissions, along with others,
Speaker 1: established probable cause to support most of the elements of
Speaker 1: the charges. DNA testing, surveillance, video and eyewitness testimony buttress
Speaker 1: those elements, and demonstrate probable cause to support the remaining elements.
Speaker 1: The court should bind defendant for trial over on all counts.
Speaker 1: The facts the shooting. On September tenth, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk and his organization Turning Point USA, We're holding
Speaker 1: an event at Utah Valley University in orem, Utah. Transcript
Speaker 1: Day one at thirty six, six, thirty seven, three, sixty five,
Speaker 1: four nineteen. Several thousand people attended and filled the Amphitheater,
Speaker 1: located near the center of the campus and west of
Speaker 1: the Lossie Building id AT sixty eight one through twelve
Speaker 1: thirty three, TV fifteen through thirty four, ten, thirty five,
Speaker 1: ten through twenty thirty nine, fourteen through forty three twenty
Speaker 1: State's examples one, two, six, seven, and eight. After the
Speaker 1: event began, mister Kirk seated himself under a canopy tent
Speaker 1: positioned on the west side of the Amphitheater below the
Speaker 1: Hall of Flags at approximately twelve twenty three, twenty eight PM,
Speaker 1: and a ten D standing directly in front of mister
Speaker 1: Kirk was questioning him when a gunshot rang out and
Speaker 1: a bullet struck the left side of mister Kirk's neck,
Speaker 1: killing him. The bullet's trajectory was front to back, slightly
Speaker 1: left to right, and downward. The investigation, the medical Examiner
Speaker 1: concluded the manner of death to be homicide, said example
Speaker 1: eleven at one. A forensic examination conducted by the ATF
Speaker 1: revealed that the bullet that kill mister Kirk was a
Speaker 1: thirty caliber class round stead Example thirty two at two.
Speaker 1: It created a complex entrance gunshot wound and fragmented in
Speaker 1: mister Kirk's neck Stead Example eleven at one. In three,
Speaker 1: The bullet, or at least parts of it, sequentially perforated
Speaker 1: the anterior left side of mister Kirk's neck, strap muscles
Speaker 1: of the left side of the neck, and the left
Speaker 1: common corotied and left internal and external jugular veins. The
Speaker 1: bullet also obliterated the left side of the C two
Speaker 1: seven vertebrae and transsected the cervical spinal cord. The medical
Speaker 1: examiner observed that a significant portion of mister Kirk's cervical
Speaker 1: spine cord was traumatically absent. Mister Kirk suffered other severe injuries,
Speaker 1: including bilateral, apical and posterior intercostal hemorrhages, pulmonary apical hemorrhages, hematomas,
Speaker 1: and multiple disruptions of the thyroid, cricoid, and tracheal cartilages.
Speaker 1: The medical examiner also observed hemorrhaging around mister Kirk's home,
Speaker 1: both of his lungs left and right hemo thorax and
Speaker 1: in the sub arachnoid space around the cerebellar firmis in
Speaker 1: the paratol regions of mister Kirk's brain Idea three and four.
Speaker 1: When the bullet struck mister Kirk, Officer Christopher Bagley of
Speaker 1: the UVU Police was stationed at the south end of
Speaker 1: the walkway roof of the Hall of Flags above mister
Speaker 1: Kirk's canopy. Based on his experience with firearms, Bagley believed
Speaker 1: that the bullet came from a rifle fired from a
Speaker 1: position east of mister Kirk's canopy. Recognizing that one below
Speaker 1: ce building was east of the amphitheater and to someone
Speaker 1: on the roof of that building would have a direct
Speaker 1: line of sight to where mister Kirk had been seated,
Speaker 1: Officer Bagley quickly made his way to that roof. There
Speaker 1: he observed a screwdriver about ten or fifteen feet from
Speaker 1: the guardrail. He also observed disturbances in the gravel at
Speaker 1: the southwest edge of the roof that were consistent with
Speaker 1: a sniper pad, meaning a place where a person was
Speaker 1: laying in a prone position with a line of sight
Speaker 1: to where mister Kirk had been seated. Officer Bagley reviewed
Speaker 1: surveillance video of the Locie Building rooftop transcript day one
Speaker 1: at ninety four, thirteen, ninety five, seventeen, ninety seven, twenty one,
Speaker 1: and ninety eight one. That video shows a mell running
Speaker 1: towards the southwest edge of the roof and then dropping down,
Speaker 1: crawling and getting into a prone position at the edge
Speaker 1: of the roof. The video further shows that at approximately
Speaker 1: twelve twenty three, twenty eight PM, the moment of the gunshot,
Speaker 1: that individual quickly stood up, ran northeast across the roof
Speaker 1: carrying a long, skinny black object, and eventually dropped himself
Speaker 1: down from the northeast side of the roof to the ground.
Speaker 1: That individual cross Campus Drive and entered a wooded area
Speaker 1: on the north side of Campus Drive. In that wooded area,
Speaker 1: police later recovered a rifle wrapped in a black towel.
Speaker 1: The rifle was an option perable Mauser Model ninety eight
Speaker 1: thirty odd six Springfield caliber rifle stead Example thirty two
Speaker 1: out one. A telescopic site was mounted on the rifle.
Speaker 1: Investigators reviewed hundreds of hours of UVEU surveillance video to
Speaker 1: track forward and backwards the person that was seen on
Speaker 1: the Losi Building roof at the time of the shooting.
Speaker 1: After defendant turned himself in, investigators also reviewed the footage
Speaker 1: searching for someone matching defendant's description and driving his car.
Speaker 1: Those efforts revealed that a vehicle registered to defendant arrived
Speaker 1: on campus the morning of the shooting. The surveillance video
Speaker 1: also shows an individual believed to be defendant walking around
Speaker 1: the UVU campus that morning, going to the railing on
Speaker 1: the roof of the Losi Building, and then leaving campus.
Speaker 1: Investigators ultimately determined that defendant visited UVU campus at least
Speaker 1: four times on September tenth, eleventh, twenty twenty five, twice
Speaker 1: before the shooting, a third time just before noon on
Speaker 1: the tenth, and a fourth time in the early hours
Speaker 1: of September eleventh, twenty twenty six. The surveillance video shows
Speaker 1: that when defendant returned to campus just before noon on
Speaker 1: the tenth. He was wearing different clothing, but his shoes
Speaker 1: were the same. Defendant was also walking with a limb.
Speaker 1: Defendant's roommate and a romantic partner. Lance Twiggs confirmed that
Speaker 1: still images taken from that portion of the surveillance video
Speaker 1: and that show front views of the individual's face definitely
Speaker 1: did look like defendant. Given their extensive review of the
Speaker 1: surveillance footage, investigators concluded that defendant was the individual who
Speaker 1: was walking with a limb up to the stairs that
Speaker 1: accessed the Low C building shortly before noon, who was
Speaker 1: on that rooftop at the time of the shooting, and
Speaker 1: who dropped off that rooftop and made his way to
Speaker 1: the wooded area where the rifle was found. At approximately
Speaker 1: twelve thirty six am on September eleventh, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: defendant returned to the intersection of Campus Drive and eight
Speaker 1: hundred South on the UVU campus. He attempted to turn
Speaker 1: south on Campus Drive, but was turned away by an
Speaker 1: officer stationed at the intersection. Campus Drive leads to the
Speaker 1: wooded area where the rifle was found in the bushes.
Speaker 1: DNA testing of the screwdriver recovered from the Low sea
Speaker 1: building roof and the towel wrapped around the rifle provided
Speaker 1: strong support for including defendant as having contributed to the
Speaker 1: DNA samples recovered from those items. DNA testing on the
Speaker 1: recovered rifles trigger, trigger guard, grips, protected underside of the receiver,
Speaker 1: and other parts, as well as the fired cartridge casing
Speaker 1: in the rifle supported including defendant as having contributed to
Speaker 1: the DNA samples recovered from those items and areas. On
Speaker 1: the evening of September eleventh, twenty twenty five, defendant surrendered
Speaker 1: himself to law enforcement in connection with mister Kirk's assassination.
Speaker 1: Defendant admitted also to mister Twiggs and other friends that
Speaker 1: he had shot mister Kirk. The State charged defendant with
Speaker 1: count one aggravated murder, a capitol felony in violation of
Speaker 1: Utah Code Section seventy six Dash five DASH two O
Speaker 1: two count two felony, discharge of a firearm causing serious
Speaker 1: bodily injury of first degree felony in violation of Utah
Speaker 1: Code Section seventy six, Dash eleven, Dash two ten two
Speaker 1: and three C counts three to four A obstruction of justice,
Speaker 1: a second degree felony in violation of Utah Code seventy
Speaker 1: six Dash eight DASH three oh two two for concealing
Speaker 1: or removing the firearm he used to shoot mister Kirk
Speaker 1: and for destroying, concealing, or removing the clothing he wore
Speaker 1: during the shooting. Count five and six tampering with the
Speaker 1: witness a third degree felony in violation of Utah Code
Speaker 1: seventy six Dash eight Dash five OA for directing mister
Speaker 1: Twiggs to delete their text messages and to refuse to
Speaker 1: speak to law enforcement. And Count number seven violent offense
Speaker 1: committed in the presence of a child in violation of
Speaker 1: Utah Code Section seventy six Dash three DASH two O
Speaker 1: three dot ten two, enhanced to a Class A misdemeanor
Speaker 1: through the victim targeting enhancement in Utah Code Dash seventy
Speaker 1: six three DASH two O three dot fourteen three A two.
Speaker 1: The State also notified defendant that counts one to two
Speaker 1: for subject to sentencing enhancements for committing a violent offense
Speaker 1: in the presence of a child in violation of Utah
Speaker 1: Code Section seventy six DASH three DASH two O three
Speaker 1: dot nine and victim targeting in violation of Utah Code
Speaker 1: Section seventy six dash three dash two O three dot
Speaker 1: one four. All Right, folks, we're gonna wrap up this
Speaker 1: episode right here, and in the next episode dealing with
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