Lance Twiggs: Immunity and Two Statements
Page 2, BACKGROUND section, of a prosecution filing ahead of the preliminary hearing. Full write-up →
This page tells you what the state actually intends to put in front of the court about the messages — and it is not the messages themselves.
The filing
"BACKGROUND. On September 11, 2025, just after Tyler Robinson turned himself in, Mr. Twiggs gave a statement to investigators. He told investigators that Robinson had admitted via electronic messages to him and others that he had killed Charlie Kirk. Investigators photographed the messages from his phone.
On April 20, 2026, in preparation for the preliminary hearing, Mr. Twiggs gave a recorded statement under oath and after an admonition that any false statement would be punishable by law and could be charged as obstruction of justice. Mr. Twiggs was also given use-immunity by the United States Attorney's Office and the Utah County Attorney's Office — meaning that his statements at that April 20 meeting could not be used against him. See Utah Code § 77-22b-1. Mr. Twiggs's April 20 statement was consistent with his September 11 statement.
In it, Mr. Twiggs described several of Defendant's statements to him: that Defendant killed Charlie Kirk (count 1, aggravated murder, and count 2, felony discharge of a firearm), that he hid the firearm (count 3, obstruction of justice), disposed of clothing (count 4, obstruction of justice), and that he told Mr. Twiggs not to speak to law enforcement (count 4, witness tampering). Most of these statements were through electronic messages from Defendant and one came from a handwritten note.
At the preliminary hearing, the State intends to offer Mr. Twiggs's April 20, 2026, recorded statement, as well as the photographs of Defendant's messages which were found on Mr. Twiggs's phone during the September 11 interview."
What the state is offering, in its own words
Two things, and only two:
- A recorded statement by Twiggs.
- Photographs of messages taken off Twiggs' phone screen.
Not a Discord export. Not a forensic extraction — the same filing family says the state does not intend to offer forensic extractions. Four felony counts are described as resting on message content, and the message content arrives as pictures plus a witness account of them.
The immunity
Twiggs was granted use-immunity by two prosecuting authorities at once — federal and county. Use-immunity means his April 20 statements cannot be used against him. The filing also notes the two statements were consistent with each other.
We record this plainly and without insinuation. Lance Twiggs has not been charged with anything, gave his statement under oath and under an obstruction admonition, and the immunity grant is an ordinary prosecutorial tool for securing a cooperating witness's account. It is normal practice. It is also, factually, a benefit conferred on the person whose phone is the sole source of the photographed messages, and a defense would be expected to explore that on cross-examination. Both things are true.
What is still unshown
- Whether Twiggs' phone was ever forensically imaged, and what such an image would show.
- The photographs in sequence, with metadata.
- The relationship between the messages the filing calls "electronic" and the platform label — Discord says the planning content was not on Discord.
What Twiggs is used to authenticate
The bindover memorandum cites the Twiggs interview transcript by page, and one citation carries unusual weight. On identity, the state pairs the Discord post with Twiggs' own words:
"Defendant's roommate and romantic partner confirmed that the individual in those screen captures showing the individuals full face 'definitely' looked like Defendant. State's Ex. 16 at 29:10-30:20."
That is the load-bearing role. With no forensic extraction being offered, a cooperating witness who identifies the man in the surveillance captures — and who was the other party to the text thread — becomes the route by which the message evidence reaches the court at all.
Which is exactly why the immunity matters. The witness whose testimony authenticates the messages holds use-immunity from two prosecuting offices, gave one statement on the night of the surrender and a second under oath seven months later, and has never been charged. None of that makes his account false. It does make it the single point on which the whole message case rests, and it is untested in public — and "untested" means exactly that, not "doubted." Nothing on this page suggests Lance Twiggs has said anything untrue, and nothing about him has been found untrue by anyone.
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
The State Will Not Offer Forensic Extractions
A filing says the state does not intend to offer evidence from forensic extractions of the seized electronics. That removes the one path that could authenticate any of these logs.
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The Steam Wall After the Shooting
The same profile once the public found it: comments in the thousands, and one September 2 post that reads like a shooting joke only in hindsight.
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The Israeli and DC Search-Traffic Claim
A widely shared thread says Israeli and Washington DC IP addresses searched Tyler Robinson Discord for months. Google Trends cannot show IP addresses, which removes the basis.
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Search Warrant 3217131 — Both Usernames
The warrant carries both attributions and the caption admitting other usernames were redacted. That redaction is why the server roster had to be rebuilt from outside the court file.
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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