KSL's Chopper 5 and the Screwdriver That Isn't There (Claims)
:::caution Attributed claims only Chris Bagley is a living private individual who has been accused of no crime and charged with nothing. Nothing on this page establishes that any officer planted, moved, or fabricated evidence. The argument recorded here is an inference drawn from news helicopter footage by members of the public, and it depends on assumptions — about timing and about camera resolution — that have not been tested. Tyler Robinson is charged, not convicted. :::
Claim snapshot
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| The claim | KSL's news helicopter was over Utah Valley University from about 1:38 pm on September 10, 2025 and stayed roughly two hours; its 4K aerial footage of the Losee Center roof reportedly shows officers, bodycams, and taped-off areas — but no screwdriver, and no evidence marker where one was reportedly found |
| Raised by | @Villgecrazylady (July 26, 2026), quoting @TootyTracksuit (July 24, 2026), in a thread replying to attorney @baroncoleman |
| First surfaced | July 24–26, 2026, during the preliminary hearing news cycle |
| Rests on | FlightRadar24 playback records (independently checkable) plus a visual reading of broadcast aerial footage (not checkable without knowing the collection time and the lens) |
| Evidence rating | EMERGING |
FlightRadar24 playback of N155TV at 7:38 PM UTC — 1:38 PM local — showing stacked orbits centered on the UVU campus. Source: @Villgecrazylady on X, July 26, 2026.
What is claimed
On July 26, 2026, the account @Villgecrazylady posted, in full:
KSL's Chopper 5 made its initial descent into Prove at 1:38 pm local time on 9/10.
They left 2 hours later.
The screwdriver wasn't on the roof.
The post attached two FlightRadar24 playback screenshots and quoted an earlier post by @TootyTracksuit from July 24, 2026, made in reply to attorney @baroncoleman:
For those who watched yesterday, here's the KSL media coverage of those officers on the roof with Bagley.
— notice all the bodycams
— notice the "sniper perch" is taped off
— Notice the lack of evidence tape just "15ft from the banister" where officer Bagley allegedly found a screwdriver
— The screwdriver is not there.
And this IS in 4K HD.
Read together, the two posts make a single argument: the news helicopter was overhead early enough and long enough to have documented the rooftop scene, and what it documented does not include the screwdriver.
What the flight data actually shows
The same aircraft at 9:12 PM UTC — 3:12 PM local — clear of the orbit stack and southeast over Provo, with the playback slider near the end of the track. Source: @Villgecrazylady on X, July 26, 2026.
This part of the claim is the part anyone can check, and it is worth separating from the visual inference.
The aircraft in both screenshots is N155TV, a Bell 206L-3 LongRanger III, serial number 51339, squawking 0105, with a listed origin of Bountiful (BTF). The FlightRadar24 aircraft panel carries a photograph of the airframe in KSL "Chopper" livery.
In the first screenshot the playback clock reads 7:38 PM UTC, which is 1:38 PM MDT — matching the time in the post exactly. The aircraft is at 5,850 ft barometric (6,025 ft GPS), 76 knots ground speed, descending at 832 feet per minute on a 145-degree track. The green trail behind it is not a transit: it is dozens of stacked orbits centered on the UVU campus, the standard pattern for a news helicopter holding over a scene.
In the second screenshot the clock reads 9:12 PM UTC — 3:12 PM MDT. The aircraft is at 7,475 ft, has left the orbit stack, and is southeast over Provo near S State Street. The playback slider sits near the end of the recorded track.
Two corrections to the post, both minor and neither fatal to it. The elapsed interval between the two screenshots is 1 hour 34 minutes, not two hours; the post rounds. And neither screenshot displays a calendar date — the September 10, 2025 date is asserted by the poster, not visible in the images. Anyone can settle that second point in a minute by pulling the N155TV playback for that date on FlightRadar24 directly.
The screwdriver this refers to
The tool at the center of the claim is the red-and-black screwdriver reportedly recovered in connection with the Losee Center rooftop. Its history in this case is already contested on its own terms, and that history is documented separately on Officer Bagley — Body Cam Died on Roof and Officer's Body Camera Died on the Roof.
In summary: early coverage around September 11, 2025 associated the screwdriver with the wooded area near the rifle; Kash Patel told Fox News on September 15, 2025 that it was found on the rooftop and carried DNA matching Robinson; and the charging documents and probable cause affidavit filed on September 16 did not detail it. Officer Bagley reportedly reached the roof at around 12:44 pm, roughly 21 minutes after the shot, and his body-worn camera reportedly stopped recording as he arrived — so there is reportedly no video of the discovery itself, only a still photograph entered into evidence.
The new posts stack a fourth question onto that pile: if aerial coverage began 54 minutes after Bagley reached the roof and ran for an hour and a half in broadcast 4K, why does the tool not appear in it?
The ordinary explanation
There are two, and either one is sufficient on its own.
The first is timing. If the screwdriver was photographed, bagged, and collected into evidence before 1:38 pm, then its absence from 1:38 pm aerial footage is exactly what a properly run scene looks like. Bagley reportedly reached the roof at about 12:44 pm; the helicopter's first orbit is 54 minutes later. Fifty-four minutes is ample time to process and remove a single small item. The claim quietly assumes the tool should still have been lying there an hour later, and that assumption is the opposite of what evidence handling is supposed to produce. Nobody has published a collection time, which is precisely why this is the question to ask.
The second is resolution. The Losee Center roof sits at roughly 4,600 feet of elevation, putting the helicopter about 1,200 to 1,250 feet above the rooftop in the first screenshot. Whether a hand tool a few inches long is resolvable from that altitude — through a gyro-stabilized broadcast lens, on a moving airframe, on gravel of similar color — is the load-bearing assumption of the entire argument, and no one making the claim has demonstrated it. "This IS in 4K HD" describes the recording format, not the angular resolution at slant range. A test is easy to run and has not been run.
The companion observations carry the same weakness. Crime-scene tape placement changes continuously as a scene is worked; a photograph of the tape at one moment says little about where it was at another. And "the sniper perch is taped off" and "there's no tape 15 feet from the banister" are, on their face, consistent with a scene where the item at the second location had already been collected and the first location was still being processed.
What is genuinely useful here
Strip away the inference and something real remains: the existence of a continuous, timestamped, high-resolution aerial record of the rooftop from approximately 1:38 pm to 3:12 pm on September 10, 2025, held by a Utah broadcaster.
That record is a documentary asset regardless of whether it shows a screwdriver. It would independently establish who was on the roof and when, how the scene was cordoned, and how it changed over ninety minutes — against which the official timeline can be checked. The site's selective 4K release item raises a parallel complaint about which high-resolution material has been made public. This is the more productive version of the same question: not "what does the footage prove," but "has the full unedited footage been preserved and produced."
What would settle it
- Obtain the evidence collection time for the red-and-black screwdriver from the Utah County Sheriff's Office or the FBI. If it was collected before 1:38 pm, the claim resolves immediately.
- Obtain KSL's full unedited Chopper 5 footage from September 10, 2025, with its embedded timecode — not the broadcast cut.
- Pull the FlightRadar24 playback for N155TV on 2025-09-10 independently, to confirm the date the screenshots do not show.
- Run a resolution test: photograph a screwdriver on a comparable gravel roof from 1,200 feet with a comparable broadcast lens, and establish whether it is visible at all.
- Obtain the evidence log and scene photographs with timestamps, so the tape placement seen from the air can be matched to the documented state of the scene at that minute.
- Establish whether the FBI or the Sheriff's Office requested or subpoenaed the aerial footage as part of the investigation.
Sources
- @Villgecrazylady (Mel), July 26, 2026 — https://x.com/Villgecrazylady/status/2081356331886240173 — two FlightRadar24 playback screenshots of N155TV
- @TootyTracksuit, July 24, 2026 — https://x.com/TootyTracksuit/status/2080783022367162519 — the quoted post carrying the KSL aerial footage, posted in reply to @baroncoleman
- FlightRadar24 playback data as displayed in the screenshots: N155TV, Bell 206L-3 LongRanger III, MSN 51339, squawk 0105, origin Bountiful (BTF)
- (The video attached to the quoted post was transcribed automatically. It contains no narration — the only intelligible audio is a cockpit remark about staying below 5,000 feet — so no transcript excerpt is reproduced here.)
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X.com posts:
- KSL chopper over UVU, screwdriver not visible on roof
- KSL aerial coverage of officers on the Losee roof
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