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@charlie_ward77 posted the single clearest example of the "shot in the heart" framing arriving through live television — a clip now embedded, transcribed, and IPFS-pinned at the head of the site's wound-location catalog. The witness statements are recorded as-given; this site does not adjudicate them.
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- July 13, 2026 (post) — Shared a live TV news segment in which an on-camera witness says the arrested man (whom he names as George Zinn) was the wrong guy, and that Charlie Kirk was hit by "one shot, right directly to the heart" by "a good shooter, a sharp shooter." The broadcast cuts away to Jason Chaffetz, confirming it ran inside a live news program.
- The witness adds his opinion that Zinn was "maybe a perfect person to pick and say that did it. But I don't think he did it at all." The public record is that Zinn was not the shooter and faced unrelated charges; Mr. Zinn is a living person and nothing here asserts he committed any crime, nor is the witness accused of anything.
- The clip is the featured broadcast exhibit on Shot in the Heart, the Narrative overview, and Witnesses — Shot to the Heart, because the witness independently uses the exact "directly to the heart" phrasing that recurs across the earliest TV interviews — before any footage or medical information was public.
Investigative value
One artifact, heavily load-bearing: it ties the heart/chest wound descriptions to a live-TV primary source rather than social-media retellings, and intersects the George Zinn distraction thread. Compare against the settled official neck account on chest versus neck.