Discord Messages — Stored on a Third-Party Server
Excerpt from a legal filing quoting two Discord messages, each cited to State's Exhibit 16.2. Posted by attorney @aburkhartlaw, July 29, 2026, and circulated by @MsJaneDoeUKnow, July 30, 2026. IPFS CID QmPywgVxNUV56ZWLYxqvMueu9t3dvZLxDgRA5LH3jaozgt.
Of the four message sets, this is the one stored furthest from anyone's hands: on Discord's own servers, under a company that responds to warrants and keeps server-side timestamps. That is what makes the set both the most checkable in principle and the most disputed in practice — because what the public has actually been shown is photographs, not exports.
The account is zealous_monkey_55095. That is the username on the confession screenshot, the one Discord said it identified before reporting it found no planning, and the one the platform later removed. It is the only Discord handle attached to Robinson anywhere in the public record — see Discord Friends, Servers and Handles.
The Messages As Quoted In A Court Filing
In late July 2026 a legal filing excerpt circulated on X showing two Discord messages quoted directly, each cited to State's Exhibit 16.2. The excerpt was posted by attorney @aburkhartlaw (Andrea Burkhart, who describes herself as a trial and appellate litigator) with the note "Also another Discord message."
The two quoted messages read:
"Hey guys. I have bad news for you all. it was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this. im surrendering through a sheriff friend in a few moments." — State's Ex. 16.2 at 1.
"it was [me]. ... look at the pictures from the surveillance footage. it was me. ... im serious." — State's Ex. 16.2 at 2.
The bracketed "[me]" and the ellipses are in the filing itself, which means the quotation is a partial rendering of a longer message rather than a full line.
The Source Document: The State's Memorandum Supporting Bindover
The passage @aburkhartlaw posted when introducing the memorandum, citing State's Ex. 11 and State's Ex. 32. Source: @aburkhartlaw on X, July 29, 2026. IPFS CID QmcT1FVhBPSJE8UDWMybm7bK9uSfQVGFowsdQFxatQccYU.
The Exhibit 16.2 quotations did not surface on their own. They come from a 28-page State memorandum supporting bindover of Tyler Robinson, which @aburkhartlaw published in full on July 29, 2026. The post that introduced it read:
"Although we didn't get the autopsy report, the State has shared a lot of details of its findings in their memorandum supporting bindover of Tyler Robinson. The complex entry wound coupled with fragmentation is consistent with the bullet destabilizing before impact, such as due to yaw. There are many other very specific details of the damage caused to Charlie that are consistent with extensive fragmentation of a rifle bullet."
The excerpt image accompanying it reads: "The medical examiner concluded the manner of death 'to be homicide.' State's Ex. 11 at 1. A forensic examination conducted by the ATF revealed that the bullet that killed Mr. Kirk was a .30 caliber class round. State's Ex. 32 at 2. It created a 'complex entrance gunshot wound' and fragmented in Mr. Kirk's neck. State's Ex. 11 at 1, 3."
That passage is a ballistics and wound finding, not a message finding — it is reproduced here because it is the excerpt that identified the document, and the wound analysis belongs with the ballistics section. What matters for this page is that the whole memorandum is now public and the message exhibits can be read in their filed context rather than as loose screenshots.
Read the full memorandum (PDF, 28 pages)
The Exhibit 16 Series — How The State Numbered The Messages
Reading the memorandum answers a question this site had been circling: the four message categories are not an interpretation imposed from outside. The State numbered them that way. Exhibit 16 and its sub-exhibits break down as:
| Exhibit | What it is |
|---|---|
| State's Ex. 16 | Transcript of the Lance Twiggs police interview (cited by page: Tr. at 3, 19, 20, and 29:10–30:20) |
| State's Ex. 16.1 | The Robinson–Twiggs text messages — at least 17 pages, cited page by page |
| State's Ex. 16.2 | The Discord messages — 2 pages |
| State's Ex. 16.3 | The handwritten note |
| State's Ex. 16.4 | Cited alongside the surveillance screen captures (Exs. 12.1, 12.4) |
The memorandum's own summary sentence puts all three message forms together: "Defendant also admitted to Mr. Twiggs and other friends that he had shot Mr. Kirk. State's Exs. 16.1 at 1-2, 16.2 at 1-2, 16.3."
Note the phrasing there — "and other friends." That is how the Discord set is characterized in the filing: messages to a group, distinct from the one-to-one text thread with Twiggs.
What Exhibit 16.2 Is Used To Prove
The memorandum leans on the Discord exhibit for one specific evidentiary purpose beyond the confession itself. Under Element 1 (identity), it states that "not only did Defendant admit that he was the one depicted in the published screen captures from the UVU surveillance footage, State's Ex. 16.2 at 1, Defendant's roommate and romantic partner confirmed that the individual in those screen captures showing the individuals full face 'definitely' looked like Defendant."
So the state reads the "look at the pictures from the surveillance footage. it was me" line as a self-identification with the published campus images — which is why that particular Discord message carries weight in the filing out of proportion to its length. Whether the figure in those captures is Robinson is contested elsewhere in this investigation; what the memorandum establishes is what the state intends to do with the message.
For the far longer text-message exhibit (16.1) and what the state quotes from it — the planning window, the rifle-retrieval attempts, the engraved cartridges, and the instruction to Twiggs to "delete this exchange" — see Texts to Lance Twiggs. For Exhibit 16.3 see the handwritten note.
Circulating the excerpt on July 30, 2026, @MsJaneDoeUKnow wrote: "DISCORD MESSAGES — Tyler Robinson: ... Tyler Robinson is GUILTY! It was him on the roof of the Losee Building taking the shot."
That last line is the poster's own conclusion, not a court finding. Robinson has been charged and has not been convicted, and the identification of the figure on the roof is contested elsewhere in this investigation. What the filing establishes is narrower and still significant: these specific message texts are in the record as a numbered state exhibit, not merely as a screenshot circulating online.
Where The Messages Were Stored
Warrant materials reported by The Post Millennial and circulated on Scribd describe the Utah State Bureau of Investigation seeking server records from Discord, targeting activity linked to usernames including:
- Craftopia
- Gamin
- The Corruption
The FBI reportedly looked into 20 or more people in that Discord circle per BBC summaries.
How They Reached Investigators
The earliest route described in the charging affidavit did not go through Discord at all. According to the Officer Brian Davis affidavit quoted in the investigation record, investigators identified Robinson's roommate, who said Robinson had "made a joke on discord." When asked to show the messages, the roommate reportedly opened his own device and let investigators photograph the screen as each message was displayed.
So the first evidentiary form of this material was a photograph of a third party's phone screen. A warrant to the company came later. That sequence is the origin of most of the authentication argument on this site.
The Custody-Timing Objection
The messages are reported to have appeared at 7:57 PM on September 11, while Miranda materials place Robinson in custody at 6:25 PM. Washington County protocol is described as taking a suspect's phone once they are in custody and Mirandized. If that holds, a post timestamped 7:57 PM would have to have come from someone else or from a device not in Robinson's possession.
Commentators including Kevin Steele and Baron Coleman have pressed this publicly. It is a contested timeline argument, not a proven fact, and it depends on the accuracy of both timestamps. The Discord Custody Timeline page works through it, and Surrender ties it to missing bodycam and lobby CCTV.
What Would Settle It
Native Discord JSON exports carrying message IDs and account tokens, server admin logs for the named servers, and correlation of IP logins against custody timestamps. None of those have been shown publicly.
The memorandum does sharpen one point that had been left open on this site. The reported state filing saying it did not intend to offer evidence obtained through forensic extractions of seized electronics sits directly against a bindover memorandum that cites the message exhibits on nearly every page of its identity and mental-state arguments. Those two things can only be reconciled if the exhibits are being authenticated some other way — through the Twiggs interview transcript (Ex. 16), through Twiggs' own device, or through testimony rather than extraction. Which of those is a docket question, and the memorandum does not answer it. The full authentication and contradiction analysis — including the internal inconsistency table drawn from X commentary — remains on the original Discord Messages page.
X.com posts:
- Court filing quotes two Discord messages as Exhibit 16.2
- Attorney posts another Discord message from the filing
- Attorney publishes the full State bindover memorandum PDF
Interesting In This Area
- The note under the keyboard is Exhibit 16.3, with no metadata at all.
- The texts are Exhibit 16.1 and run past seventeen pages.
- Steam material appears nowhere in the state's exhibit series.
- Discord removed the account that posted the screenshot.
Interesting In Other Areas
- Cellebrite, an Israeli firm, supplied the tooling behind the extraction.
- Charlie's own message exhibits have no parallel Discord series at all.
- Lance Twiggs supplied the phone and is charged with nothing.
- Proof Not Tyler collects the ballistics arguments the messages never touch.
Other Pages In This Section
The Handwritten Note — Stored Under a Keyboard
The one message in this case stored under a keyboard rather than on a server: no timestamp, no account, no metadata to authenticate or to dispute. It is State's Exhibit 16.3, and the memorandum's lead identity quotation is drawn from it.
Read thisThe rooftop account set against the challenges to it — the climb, the prone position, the sprint, the recovered Mauser. The larger question the page keeps in view is whether a rooftop shot explains the death at all.
Read this
Tyler Robinson Weapon and Rifle
Everything the record says about the Mauser attributed to Robinson — recovery, DNA claims, the inconclusive ATF comparison, and the preliminary-hearing testimony about what was found inside the barrel.
Read this
The 'Literal Discord Logs' Claim
An X post lists the confession as objective fact and sources it to the literal Discord logs. No member of the public has ever seen a Discord log in this case.
Read thisElsewhere In The Investigation
Prosecutors disclaimed forensic extractions; an agent then described performing exactly one, on a Cellebrite tool. The testimony and the disclaimer are quoted side by side.
Read thisWhat Court Filings Actually Show
The State's bindover memorandum numbers the message material: 16 and 16.1 texts, 16.2 Discord, 16.3 a handwritten note. There is no parallel exhibit series titled Charlie Kirk Discord logs, and that absence is the page's whole point.
Read this
Tyler Robinson's partner and roommate, charged with nothing, pulled into the record by the state's own investigation. Her messages and her phone became evidence in a case where she is not a defendant.
Read this
The hub for every argument that Tyler Robinson did not cause Charlie Kirk's death — ballistics, acoustics, identity gaps, and the standard physical tests that were reportedly never run.
Read thisThis website's author is @HolonCitizen on X and YouTube/@HolonCitizen. Follow me there.
Interesting
- A staffer is 100% certain he served Robinson that night — see the full restaurant visit.
- ATF reportedly could not tie the jacket fragment to the Mauser — see the forensic gaps.
- Sealed warrants and a halted foreign-lead review are logged under investigation challenges.