DOJ Internal Report on the Shooting
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This is a photograph of a phone screen displaying a document served from teams.doj.gov, with a large semi-transparent LOUDER WITH CROWDER watermark across the middle. Field-office names are visible along the top edge — Denver, Charlotte, Raleigh — indicating an internal reporting roll-up rather than a public release.
The report text reads that on September 10, 2025, at approximately 12:24 PM, conservative political influencer Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, while speaking as part of The American Comeback Tour. It states that multiple Salt Lake City agents responded immediately, that the suspect fired one shot from an elevated position on a rooftop in an adjacent building on campus, and that surveillance video shows the suspect jumping off and fleeing the area on foot. It then records that ATF and other law enforcement located an older model imported Mauser .30-06 caliber bolt-action rifle wrapped in a towel in a wooded area near the campus.
This page is useful precisely because it is the government's own compressed version of the account, written for internal readers. Every disputed element of the case is present in those few sentences: one shot, an elevated rooftop position, a rifle in a towel in the woods. The competing analysis of each is at Mauser .30-06 Rifle, Gun Discovery Sequence, and Acoustic Two-Event Split. The bureau's forensic handling is at Ballistics Forensics.
Related Areas
- Cluster: Ballistics and the Gun
- Section: Gun & Bullet Analysis
- All photo evidence: Photos
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