The Full Exchange After the Keyboard Note
The fullest published transcript of the exchange, formatted as Robinson / Roommate. Full write-up →
This is the longest published version, and the one that carries the material everything else quotes from: the motive line, the planning window, and the engraved bullets.
The framing line
"After reading the note, the roommate responded, 'What?????????????? You're joking, right????'"
The transcript
Robinson: "I am still ok my love, but am stuck in orem for a little while longer yet. Shouldn't be long until I can come home, but I gotta grab my rifle still. To be honest I had hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you."
Roommate: "you weren't the one who did it right????"
Robinson: "I am, I'm sorry"
Roommate: "I thought they caught the person?"
Robinson: "no, they grabbed some crazy old dude, then interrogated someone in similar clothing. I had planned to grab my rifle from my drop point shortly after, but most of that side of town got locked down. Its quiet, almost enough to get out, but theres one vehicle lingering."
Roommate: "Why?" — Robinson: "Why did I do it?" — Roommate: "Yeah"
Robinson: "I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can't be negotiated out. If I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence. Going to attempt to retrieve it again, hopefully they have moved on. I haven't seen anything about them finding it."
Roommate: "How long have you been planning this?"
Robinson: "a bit over a week I believe. I can get close to it but there is a squad car parked right by it. I think they already swept that spot, but I don't wanna chance it"
Robinson: "I'm wishing I had circled back and grabbed it as soon as I got to my vehicle. ... I'm worried what my old man would do if I didn't bring back grandpas rifle ... idek if it had a serial number, but it wouldn't trace to me. I worry about prints I had to leave it in a bush where I changed outfits ... I might have to abandon it and hope they don't find prints. how the fuck will I explain losing it to my old man..."
Robinson: "only thing I left was the rifle wrapped in a towel...."
Robinson: "remember how I was engraving bullets? The fuckin messages are mostly a big meme, if I see 'notices bulge uwu' on fox new I might have a stroke"
Robinson: "alright im gonna have to leave it, that really fucking sucks. ..."
The four things this exchange is quoted for
The motive. "I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can't be negotiated out." This single sentence is the entire stated motive in the public record.
The planning window. "a bit over a week." Set that against Discord's statement that it found no evidence of planning on its platform — a week of planning left no trace where the planning supposedly happened.
The engraved bullets. "The fuckin messages are mostly a big meme." Note that the roommate has to be reminded of the engravings — "remember how I was engraving bullets?" — which is one of the oddities Chris Friel builds on: a partner who forgot something that distinctive, days later. See The Twiggs Text Exchange and Friel's Sequencing Argument.
The double astonishment. The roommate reads a note confessing to the killing, replies "You're joking, right????", and then still asks "you weren't the one who did it right????" Two separate expressions of disbelief about a fact he has just read.
What is not here
No plan, no target research, no reconnaissance, no date selection — nothing from the week that was allegedly spent planning. The exchange begins after the act and is entirely about retrieving the rifle.
The Location Field Is Typed In. The IP Address Is Not.
On Discord, on Steam, and on every platform in this section, the country shown on a profile is a text box the user filled in. Anyone can type Utah, or Egypt, or nothing at all, and change it again in seconds. Whether it is shown publicly is a setting. It is not evidence of where a person was sitting when they typed a message.
What is not typed in is the IP address. Every session, every login, every message send is written to the platform's own logs with the address it arrived from, alongside device fingerprints and session timing. Discord holds that record for the servers named in the Utah State Bureau of Investigation's warrant — Craftopia, Gamin and The Corruption — and for the account that posted the confession.
That is the question this section keeps returning to: is it known where the people in these servers actually were? The FBI reportedly examined twenty or more people in Robinson's Discord circle and charged none of them, and nothing in the public record states where any of them were. To be explicit, because it matters: being in another country is not wrongdoing, no one in those servers has been accused by any authority of anything, and nothing on this site suggests any of them did anything improper. The point is narrower — that a location nobody has verified should not be treated as if it were verified, in either direction. Self-reported locations circulated widely — see the Egypt claim on a Steam profile — and self-reported locations are worthless.
The answer exists. It is in Discord's subpoena return and in the login-IP history for September 10–12 — records that investigators can obtain through lawful process and the public cannot. What we are asking for is that the record for the account that posted the confession be established through that process and, so far as the law allows, made public. Until it is, every claim of foreign involvement in these chats — and every denial — rests on a field somebody typed.
We are not asking anyone to identify, locate, contact or expose any private individual, and readers should not attempt it. We name no one and we accuse no one. This is a request for a record, not an allegation against a person.
Other Parts of the Discord Messages
Discord Handles Left in the Steam Comments
Visitors posted their own Discord handles on a public Steam wall. Handles are typed by hand; the accounts behind them resolve to IP addresses that are not.
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The Phil Lyman Post Two Weeks Before
A Utah legislator engaged with a post about Discord radicalization two weeks before September 10. What a coincidence of that shape can and cannot carry.
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One warrant, one confession, two different usernames. Page 5 says tylor/Ikum and page 7 shows zealous_monkey_55095, and nothing in the document reconciles them.
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Surrendering vs. Turning Himself In
The Discord post says surrendering. The indictment says turning himself in willingly. That one word reads as written by somebody other than the person surrendering.
Read thisThe Steam Friend List May Matter More
Discord is where the confession appeared. Steam is where the friendships actually lived. A server can hold hundreds of people who have never spoken to each other; a friend list is chosen one person at a time, and the people on it are the ones you spend hundreds of hours in voice chat with, night after night, for years. If anyone in Robinson's online life knew him well enough to matter, they are likelier to be on that list than on a server roster.
The two circles overlap directly: visitors to the Steam profile posted their Discord handles on its public comment wall. And Steam stores exactly what Discord stores — the IP address each session came from — no matter what country a profile claims.
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