Going Out On My Own Terms: The Second Warrant Block
Search warrant page 5, with the second photographed message block. Full write-up →
The tone changes completely in this block, and it is the change that the "original plan was a shootout" reading is built on.
How the warrant frames it
"Lance showed FBI Special Agent Lange additional text messages between Tyler Robinson and himself. The text messages were photographed by investigators as Lance showed them the text messages. The following is the text content of one of the pictures that investigators took."
Read that carefully: the warrant is transcribing a photograph of a screen, and says so.
The exchange
| Speaker | Message |
|---|---|
| Tyler | "I'm sorry, but I think this might be it. If the way is clear I can try and come your way to say goodbye, after that I have a spot in mind that I'll call the police to" |
| Lance | "are there cops outside?" |
| Lance | "and why are you calling the police anywhere?" |
| Tyler | "not yet, but I have no doubts they will be on me within the hour. And I will be giving my location up and going out on my own terms. I have no intention of being drug through the courts in front of the country. Can I come see you? After that I can call my dad and see if he's willing to help me or not" |
| Lance | "im just at my parents rn, maybe I could make an excuse to head home for a bit" |
| Tyler | "you would need to do that right now" |
| Lance | "any ideas?" |
Why commentators read this as a shootout plan
"Going out on my own terms," combined with "say goodbye," "this might be it," and calling police to a chosen spot, reads to many commentators as a plan to die rather than to surrender. Sam Parker posted on X that "the original plan was for Tyler Robinson to be klled in a shootout."* That is an X commentator's inference from these words, not a finding by any authority. We record it with attribution.
The contradiction it creates with the Discord post
Within hours, on the same account of events, the author allegedly:
- refuses to be "drug through the courts in front of the country", then
- surrenders "willingly" through a sheriff's friend, to face exactly those courts.
Analysts argue a single author does not usually reverse a life-or-death intention that cleanly in that window. Others argue that people in acute crisis reverse themselves constantly, and that the reversal is the most human thing in the whole record. Both readings are on the table; neither has been tested in open court.
Note on the "dad" line
The final Robinson line mentions calling his father to "see if he's willing to help me or not." The family's own account of that night is disputed — see Family Denies Confession — Baron Coleman.
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 Full Exchange After the Keyboard Note
The longest published version, beginning after the note under the keyboard is found. It carries the motive line, the week of planning, and the engraved-bullets meme.
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 this
Discord Friends, Servers and Handles
Every handle in the source material, reassembled after the warrant redacted the rest. Three servers, two men, six years of archive — and no country anyone can verify.
Read this
Two Different Surrender Messages
The indictment quotes one surrender sentence and the warrant quotes an entirely different one. The warrant's author re-capitalised and truncated the post he was reproducing.
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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