Zeb Boykin Post: Circled Blur Read as Post-Exit
What This Image Shows
A screenshot of a post on X by Zeb Boykin (@ZebBoykin), timestamped about four hours before capture. Below the text sits a heavily cropped and pixelated frame from the event, with a red circle drawn over a small dark blur visible between spectators in the centre-left of the picture.
The post reads: "I think I was wrong. This is bullet post exit. It would fix two other inconsistencies and be easier to capture on camera as it's moving significantly slower. We shouldn't see that much movement from Charlie in the next frame yet. It also confirms the other angle with the 2 frames timing of capturing the projectile." Boykin is revising his own earlier interpretation in public — the blur, he now argues, is the round after it has already passed through rather than on approach.
That distinction matters because it changes the geometry. A projectile captured post-exit implies a different line, a different speed and a different point of origin than one captured in flight toward the target, which is why this frame sits with the trajectory material rather than with the crowd photographs. It should be read for what it is: one researcher's revised reading of a few dark pixels in a compressed image, published for others to challenge. No forensic body has confirmed that anything visible in this frame is a bullet.
For the competing angle reconstructions see The Shot and the Shooter Position, and for the site's written treatment of trajectory and wound conflicts see Trajectory and Wound Mismatch and Gun and Bullet.
Related Areas
- Cluster: The Shot and the Shooter Position
- Section: Real Killer
- All photo evidence: Photos