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After — Photo Evidence

Photo evidence filed under After — 5 images on this page. Scan the list and open any image for the full picture and its write-up.

About This Cluster​

This cluster covers the seconds and minutes immediately after the shot at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025 — the tent, the table, the people who moved in, and the first broadcast frames. It is one of the highest-value image sets in the case because the official account and the researchers' account diverge fastest right here. Wound location, the direction people turned, what was on the table and what was later missing from it, and whether the earliest video shows shirt movement before blood are all questions that can only be argued from frames captured in this window.

The set includes a broadcast frame of the "American Comeback Tour" canopy with the red news banner reading "BREAKING: CHARLIE KIRK SHOT ON UVU CAMPUS," showing the folding table left behind with a personal fan, an open binder, loose papers, and a black flat case still on it. Two further captures show a struggle under the same canopy behind the lightning-bolt table drape, one with a hand-drawn circle around an individual's patriotic-print shorts and another with an inset zoom and white arrows pointing at clothing — annotations made by the posters to direct attention, not markings by any investigator. A separate capture is the Polly St George post reading: "It enters near his right ear. There is video but I can't post it here. This is a still from that video. See the blood on his right ear/temple?" A fifth image looks into the second-row captain's chair of the vehicle used to move Kirk, with a yellow arrow drawn toward the upper pillar and reddish-brown staining visible along the seat cushion and bolster. Descriptions here are kept clinical; the interpretations attached to the arrows and circles belong to the researchers who drew them.

Study the wound-location frames first, since they connect directly to the witness accounts that split between chest and neck — see Shot in Chest Reversal, Wrong Witnesses, and Shot to the Heart. Then follow the vehicle images into SUV Transporting Charlie and the physical-cause argument in Microphone — The Exploding Mic Theory. The tent and table questions are covered on The Tent, and the trip that followed on Charlie's Trip to the Hospital.