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The Executive Who Removed the Camera SD Card (Claims)

:::caution Attributed claims only Terryl Farnsworth is a living private individual who has been accused of no crime and charged with nothing. Removing recording media from a camera during an emergency evacuation is ordinary behavior for an AV professional, and turning media over to police is the opposite of destroying it. TPUSA has offered an explanation, recorded below. The claims here are reported allegations, not findings. :::

The card in question reportedly held the angle pointed at the tent in the moment Charlie Kirk was assassinated, which is why its handling is tracked alongside the rest of the missing-footage record.

Claim snapshot

Field	Value
The claim	An unnamed "executive" reportedly removed the video SD card after the shooting and had "never been to a University event before or after"; separately, Candace Owens has alleged that Terryl Farnsworth removed SD cards from the camera behind Kirk's head while leaving the more expensive camera body behind
Raised by	The "executive" item is unattributed in the file; the Farnsworth allegation is attributed to Candace Owens, relayed via @realhonestash
First surfaced	Undated in source
Rests on	Anonymous post (the executive item) and on-record commentary (the Owens allegation)
Evidence rating	MODERATE

What is alleged

The file carries the claim twice, in two forms, and it does not reconcile them. The first is a bare numbered item: "40) The executive who took the video SD card out after the shooting, had never been to a University event before or after." That executive is never named anywhere in the file, and the file gives no source for the item at all.

The second is the Farnsworth allegation. The file's people notes record that Farnsworth is a TPUSA AV/videographer who reportedly controlled audio and video at the UVU event, and that he "Removed SD cards from the camera behind Kirk's head (accused by Candace Owens and others of tampering with crime scene footage; TPUSA claimed police instructed it or to prevent theft)." Owens' own version, quoted in the file, is pointed: "Why did you jump specifically to grab that camera's SD card and then lie and say, Andrew Kolvet, people were stealing stuff. Buddy, we have eyes. We saw you take specifically the SD card and you left the camera, which is more expensive."

This distinction should not be glossed. Item 40's "executive" is anonymous, and the file nowhere establishes that the executive and Farnsworth are the same person. Someone reading quickly will merge them. The file does not merge them, and neither does this page. The "never been to a University event before or after" claim attaches to the unnamed executive, not to Farnsworth, and it is offered with no attendance records of any kind.

The ordinary explanation

Grabbing the media and leaving the body is what any working AV person does by reflex in a chaotic evacuation. The footage is irreplaceable; the camera is rental-replaceable and probably insured. A card fits in a pocket in half a second; a rig on a tripod does not. Owens' "you left the camera, which is more expensive" is presented as the damning detail, but it is the detail that makes the behavior most obviously innocent — the expensive object is the one you can buy again.

TPUSA's stated account — that police instructed it, or that it was done to secure media against theft in an evacuating crowd — is ordinary on its face. And the crucial point is directional: turning recorded media over to police is the opposite of destroying it. A person concealing evidence does not walk it over to law enforcement. If the cards went to police, the allegation collapses; if they did not, that is the checkable question, and nobody has answered it publicly.

The "never before or after" claim is unsourced and, on the file's own facts, likely backwards. The file records elsewhere that UVU was reportedly the first date of a new national campus tour. A launch is exactly the event a senior events executive attends.

What would settle it

1. Establish whether the unnamed "executive" in item 40 and Terryl Farnsworth are the same person, or two people. The file does not say.
2. Ask the Utah County Sheriff's Office and the FBI, on the record, whether any officer instructed anyone to remove or hand over camera media, and whether the cards were received into evidence.
3. Obtain the chain of custody for every SD card removed from any camera at the venue that day.
4. Obtain TPUSA travel and event records to test "never been to a University event before or after," and confirm whether UVU was the first date of a new national tour.
5. Ask Farnsworth on the record what he did with the cards and why.

Interesting In This Area

• A senior executive collecting SD cards is the same claim told from the TPUSA side.
• Ryne Simmons was reportedly told to delete his own 4K video.
• The selective 4K release sits oddly against the claimed FBI gag.
• The six-officer records request is what a documented item looks like here.

Interesting In Other Areas

• Reported claims say production AV staff, not police, pulled the cards.
• Attendees reportedly faced pressure to delete or withhold phone video.
• Low-resolution roof video was released while higher-fidelity archives reportedly stayed in.
• Crowd phone footage is the record nobody could collect at the scene.

Images

This is a standard portrait or identification photograph of a young adult male, shown from the chest up against a plain blue background. Full write-up →

Other Pages In This Section

Six Campus Officers and No Ambulance Staged (Claims)

Six campus officers, no ambulance staged, no outside law enforcement coordinated, and faculty never trained on active-shooter protocol — for a crowd the chief later put at 3,000. UVU has acknowledged more documents exist and reportedly refused to release them.

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The Canon XA55 Audio and a Stage Detonation (Claims)

An unnamed analyst says uncompressed Canon XA55 audio holds three low-frequency arrivals, the loudest a detonation at the tent. It is the acoustic backbone of every device theory here — and reflections off campus buildings produce the same pattern.

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The Snapped Necklace and the Residue Search (Claims)

Both camps treat the snapped silver chain as their clue. One cited expert says cavitation from a bullet snapped it; another says a PETN cone in the pendant did. They cannot both be right, and that is the point.

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The Jailhouse Informant Transport Order (Claims)

A transport order moving inmate Jaxson Thomas Fox to a courthouse is read online as a jailhouse snitch being positioned. A transport order is a ministerial docket entry; it reveals nothing about what anyone will testify to.

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Elsewhere In The Investigation

Cameras and SD Cards Removed From the Scene (Claims)

Reported claims that production AV staff, not police, pulled camera SD cards and unhooked cameras before any evidence seal. Kirk's own microphone audio has still never been released.

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Witness Footage Pressure

Reported pressure on attendees to delete or withhold phone video — missing clips, release warnings, and SD cards that left the scene. Witness footage is the least controllable record there is.

Read this

Evidence & Footage Preservation

Low-resolution roof video was released while higher-fidelity campus archives reportedly stayed in. The same page tracks the reported requests that witnesses delete their own phone video and the disposal of the transport SUV.

Read this

Eyewitness & Mobile Video

Dozens of phones were recording. Their combined coverage is more complete than the institutional cameras that were never released, which is why the crowd's footage keeps mattering.

Read this

Sources

• Investigation file, numbered item 40: "The executive who took the video SD card out after the shooting, had never been to a University event before or after." No source is cited in the file for this item, and the executive is not named.
• Investigation file, people notes on Terryl Farnsworth: "Removed SD cards from the camera behind Kirk's head (accused by Candace Owens and others of tampering with crime scene footage; TPUSA claimed police instructed it or to prevent theft)."
• Candace Owens, quoted in the investigation file: "We saw you take specifically the SD card and you left the camera, which is more expensive."
• @realhonestash — https://x.com/realhonestash/status/2069185145555255370
• (The file spells the name variously as "Terrell," "Taryl," and "Fonsworth." The correct spelling is Terryl Farnsworth.)

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