Sheriff Brooksby Describes The 8:02 Phone Call From A Retired Friend
What This Video Is
Sixty-eight seconds captured from a live Fox broadcast of a Utah police press conference, reposted to X by @SteveCameronPr1. Washington County Sheriff Nate Brooksby stands at a podium in a tan uniform with gold collar stars, an American flag to his left and the Washington County sheriff's seal behind him. Lower-third graphics identify the event and the speaker; a news ticker scrolls throughout.
It is a single unbroken static shot with no cuts, which makes it a clean primary record of exactly what the sheriff said and when. That matters here more than usual, because the timeline in this account is contested elsewhere on this site.
What Is Said
Brooksby tells it as a personal story, and the human detail is part of why the clip circulates. He describes an ordinary call from an old friend, a retired colleague with whom occasional calls were not unusual:
"At 8:02 p.m. he calls me. Hey, I can tell his voice is kind of shaky, so my first thought is, who died? Like, who's he gonna tell me that died? And then I couldn't fathom what actually came out of his mouth."
He then reports what the caller said: "Hey, I know who Charlie Kirk's shooter is. I know the family through religious association, and he's in Washington County now, and we're working on trying to get him to come in voluntarily."
The remainder concerns the state the young man was said to be in and how the surrender was arranged: "During that phone call, some information was provided about Tyler potentially having some suicidal ideations, was en route to a remote area of Washington County. The parents convinced them not to do that, and conveyed that they would stand by them and help them surrender peacefully."
Three details in that minute have done a great deal of work in the investigation. The first is the time, 8:02 p.m., which the sheriff states unprompted and precisely. The second is that the chain to law enforcement ran through a private intermediary who knew the family, not through an investigative lead. The third is that the family are described as having actively steered the outcome toward a peaceful surrender.
This is a sheriff's public account given at a press conference. It is not sworn testimony, and a separate government document quoted elsewhere on this site records a call to a neighbouring sheriff at 2004 hours and an arrival at the Washington County Sheriff's Office at 2226 hours, which researchers have set against this narrative. The clip records what was said; whether the stated sequence holds is argued at the pages below.
What The Footage Shows
Only the podium, for the full sixty-eight seconds. There is no b-roll, no exhibit, no photograph and no cut. The value is the primary-source quality: the words, the delivery, the stated time, and a timestamped broadcast context that makes the statement easy to place.
How It Connects
The speaker is at Nate Brooksby; the retired intermediary he describes is at Mike Mitchell. The reposting account is at @stevecameronpr1.
For the official surrender account, see September 11 surrender and custody and Tyler Robinson: surrender. For the counter-argument that the surrender happened hours earlier, see Baron Coleman on an early turn-in, filed beside this clip, and custody timeline and the confession question.
For the missing footage of the surrender itself, see sheriff video withheld and bodycam GRAMA: no footage. For the wider institutional aftermath, see institutional resignations and the Washington County Sheriff.
Where This Video Also Appears
- Institutional Resignations After the Shooting
- Sept 11 Surrender and Custody Timeline
- Sheriff Nate Brooksby