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Air Rifle With Evidence Tag on Concrete

Overhead photograph of a break barrel air rifle with a reddish brown wooden stock lying diagonally on grey painted concrete, a yellow warning tag tied to the barrel

What This Image Shows​

An overhead photograph, taken looking straight down at a worn grey-painted concrete floor. A single break-barrel air rifle lies diagonally across the frame: polished reddish-brown wooden stock, matte black receiver, long black barrel running toward the upper right. A bright yellow warning tag is tied around the barrel.

The tag and the plain floor make this look like a property or evidence photograph rather than a scene frame. It is the clearest image in the set of the item type at the center of this thread, and it matches the profile in the Ruger Yukon listing filed alongside it — wooden stock, single barrel, break-barrel action.

Use it as the reference frame when reading the rest of the cluster. Everything the Provo arrest thread argues rests on this item being an air rifle: that the man detained in Provo could not have fired the shot at Utah Valley University, that early reporting conflated an air rifle with a firearm, and that the conflation added an hour of confusion while the actual shooter was unlocated. The chain from this photograph to the specific item recovered on September 10, 2025 is asserted by researchers rather than documented by an agency. See Pellet Gun Man and Guns and Ballistics.

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