Posts From the Day Before Beside a Video Still
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This site has redacted this image. The original composite circulating online showed the account's display name and handle, and paired those posts with a video still of an identifiable person at the event. We have blacked out both. The account belongs to a private individual who has not been charged, has not been accused by any authority, and is not alleged by this site to have any connection to the shooting — and there is no evidence whatever that the person who appeared in the right half of the composite is the account holder. That juxtaposition was the original's implication and it is not one this site will carry.
What remains is a thread of two posts, both marked as posted one day earlier. The first reads: "Charlie kirk is coming to my college tomorrow i rlly hope someone evaporates him literally," logged at 92K views. The second reads: "Lets just say something big will happen tomorrow," logged at 239K views, attached to a joke reaction image.
Foreknowledge is one of the investigation's central tests, and posts made the day before an attack are exactly the kind of item that has to be examined rather than ignored. It also has to be examined carefully: the screenshot is unverified, hostile posts about a visiting speaker are common on campuses, and "something big will happen tomorrow" is the kind of line that reads very differently before and after an event — a high-profile speaker arriving on a small campus is something big happening tomorrow, and it was publicly announced. Nothing here establishes any connection between the account and the shooting.
The one question worth pursuing is procedural rather than personal — whether investigators reviewed pre-event social media and interviewed anyone — and it is taken up at Suspicious Posts Before the Event. See also Before the Shooting and Censorship.
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