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An expert shot down speculation that bullet fragments recovered during the investigation into Charlie Kirk\u2019s murder did not match the rifle used by his alleged killer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read more Redacted letter from Tyler Robinson to trans lover accidentally shown in court<\/a><\/p>\n

Samantha Karner, an expert from the Utah Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, testified Thursday that an analysis couldn\u2019t identify the specific type of gun from which the bullet was fired.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy conclusion is inconclusive\u2026I am unable to say one way or another,\u201d Karner said when lawyers for Tyler Robinson \u2013 Kirk\u2019s alleged killer \u2013 pressed her on whether the analysis led her to believe the bullet didn\u2019t match the rifle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Karner spoke at a preliminary hearing to determine if Robinson, 23, will stand trial for allegedly gunning down Kirk on Sept. 10, 2025 at Utah Valley University.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Robinson\u2019s team had pointed to the inconclusive analysis in a motion to delay the hearing \u2014 claiming that further discovery could yield evidence in their client\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n

The motion kicked off speculation that authorities had, in fact, found that the bullet didn\u2019t match Robinson\u2019s gun \u2014 a glimmer of hope for Robinson that Karner\u2019s testimony seems to have dashed.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors claim Robinson carved snarky messages into cartridge casings before taking his grandfather\u2019s rifle to Orem, Utah, and shooting Kirk in the neck.<\/p>\n

Robinson allegedly wrapped the rifle in a towel, hid it in a woody area near the UVU campus, and then tried to go back and retrieve it \u2014 a narrative prosecutors backed with security camera footage, DNA swabs from the towel, and video testimony from Robinson\u2019s lover Lance Twiggs.<\/p>\n

Read more Tyler Robinson spent weeks plotting Charlie Kirk assassination, asked trans lover about engraver tool for bullets: bombshell recording<\/a><\/p>\n

Robinson allegedly bragged about the rifle and fretted about getting it back home before his dad noticed it gone, according to message exchanges shown in court.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day Twiggs was shown acknowledging the texts and describing a tearful confession from Robinson inside their apartment, in video testimony given in exchange for limited immunity.<\/p>\n

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Robinson asked Twiggs about borrowing a dremel to engrave shell casings a month or so before Kirk\u2019s death, but he thought his boyfriend had wanted to decorate rounds for an upcoming hunting trip, he told prosecutors.<\/p>\n

Charlie Kirk\u2019s widow Erika had pushed for the full, unredacted video to be played in court \u2014 hopefully to quell unhinged conspiracy theories about her husband\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Redacting the video] suggests to the public that something else is in there, that something else lurks in there that isn\u2019t,\u201d Erica Kirk\u2019s attorney Jeffrey Neiman said.<\/p>\n

Erika Kirk sobbed inside the courtroom Wednesday after a Utah judge allowed certain parts of the video statement from Tyler Robinson\u2019s trans lover to be redacted.<\/p>\n

Read more NY mom Jamey Carney suffocated to death in Ireland home murder \u2014 as police fear asylum-seeking boyfriend fled country: report<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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