Farnsworth Already Filming From the Rock Pile (Claims)
:::caution Attributed claims only Terryl Farnsworth is a living private individual who has been accused of no crime and charged with nothing. Filming a catastrophe with a phone, standing somewhere high to see over a crowd, and saying "He's dead" about a person with a catastrophic wound are all ordinary human behavior, and none of them indicate knowledge of anything. The claims below are reported allegations, not findings. :::
Claim snapshot
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| The claim | Farnsworth was reportedly already in position on a rock pile filming 27 seconds after the shot, said "They just shot Charlie" at 12:24:22, and "He's dead" at 12:24:36 — long before any hospital pronouncement |
| Exact time in window | 12:23:57 to 12:24:36 PM MT — from 00:27 to 01:06 on the file's own reconstruction |
| Raised by | The investigation file's own documented START/END timeline; Candace Owens |
| First surfaced | Undated in source |
| Rests on | Named witness account — the file's second-by-second reconstruction of publicly circulating footage, plus Owens' on-air commentary |
| Evidence rating | MODERATE |
What is alleged
The investigation file's most carefully built artifact is a second-by-second reconstruction that begins "START 12:23:30 PM Utah Time 00:00 Charlie Shot" and ends "END 12:24:36 PM Utah Time." Three of its entries concern Terryl Farnsworth. At 00:27 — 12:23:57, twenty-seven seconds after the shot, he is recorded as "already in position on the rock pile filming." At 00:52 — 12:24:22, he is the voice saying "They just shot Charlie." At 01:06 — 12:24:36, he says "He's dead" — and that line is where the entire reconstruction stops.
The timing argument rests on what the file computes elsewhere. Its own hospital estimate — roughly one minute to leave, seven to ten to drive, five to ten to unload and reach the operating room, twenty to thirty in surgery — puts the surgeon's pronouncement somewhere around 1:03 p.m. That is roughly thirty-nine minutes after Farnsworth reportedly says "He's dead."
Investigators pair this with two further claims. Candace Owens has said Farnsworth is "the absolute TOP executive at TPUSA," who runs AmFest, SAS and the national tours and "does NOT fly out for random campus stops. Ever" — arguing he was present on the one day it mattered and absent from the next campus event. The file separately records the allegation that he removed SD cards from a camera behind Kirk's head, with TPUSA reportedly stating police instructed it or that it was done to prevent theft. That SD-card allegation is not timestamped anywhere in the file, so it falls outside this ten-minute window; it is covered under Suspicious at UVU on September 10 and is not adjudicated here.
(The investigation file spells his name variously as "Terrell," "Taryl," and "Fonsworth." The correct spelling is Terryl Farnsworth.)
The ordinary explanation
Twenty-seven seconds after a shooting at a public event, everyone within a hundred yards has a phone out. That is not a hypothesis about human nature; it is what every mass-casualty scene of the last fifteen years looks like on video. A media executive filming is the least surprising thing in the frame — filming is his profession, and he is standing at his own organization's event. Standing on a rock pile is what a person does to see over a panicking crowd. It is elevation, not a camera position chosen in advance.
"He's dead" at 12:24:36 is the weakest link in the chain, and it is worth being blunt about why. A layperson looking at a man with a catastrophic neck wound and arterial bleeding says exactly that, out loud, immediately. People say it constantly about victims who are still alive, and they say it about victims they can barely see. It is a horrified reaction, not a medical determination, and treating it as foreknowledge requires assuming a bystander was making a clinical judgment he had no training to make and no vantage point to make it from. That the file's reconstruction ends on that line is a fact about how the reconstruction was built, not about Farnsworth.
The "never did campus events" claim is an assertion with no attendance records shown — no itinerary, no roster, no schedule. And it inverts on one reported fact: UVU was reportedly the first date of a new national campus tour. A launch is precisely the event a senior events executive attends. If that is right, his presence is not the anomaly. His absence would have been.
What would settle it
- Obtain Farnsworth's TPUSA travel and event records for the preceding two years. Either they show a pattern of skipping campus stops or they do not.
- Confirm whether the UVU event was the first date of a new national campus tour, from TPUSA's own scheduling documents.
- Obtain the full, untrimmed rock-pile video with its native timestamp rather than the reconstructed times.
- Ask Farnsworth on the record what he saw from the rock pile and what he meant by "He's dead."
Sources
- Investigation file, second-by-second reconstruction: "00:27 Terryl Farnsworth already in position on the rock pile filming"; "00:52 'They just shot Charlie'"; "01:06 'He's dead'"; "END 12:24:36 PM Utah Time."
- Investigation file, people notes on Terryl Farnsworth: TPUSA AV/videographer who controlled audio and video at the UVU event; SD-card removal allegation attributed to Candace Owens and others, with TPUSA's reported response.
- Candace Owens, quoted in the investigation file's "Video Camera SD card & Executive" section — no URL is cited in the file for this quotation.