UVU Aftermath: Crowd Pushed Back From the SUVs
What This Video Is
A 31-second vertical phone capture taken outside the Sorensen Center courtyard at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, in the minutes after the September 10, 2025 shooting. It is a bystander recording, not broadcast footage and not an official release: the camera is hand-held, the framing is unplanned, and the operator is moving with the crowd rather than covering the scene. It carries no watermark, no chyron, and no uploader credit, so it should be treated as an anonymous capture held in the investigation's own archive rather than as sourced media with a known provenance chain.
The clip is filed here as one of the "immediately after" captures. It is short, it is loud, and its value is almost entirely in what it fixes in time: the movement of the motorcade vehicles and the posture of law enforcement in the first minutes.
What Is Said
The audio is a single continuous panic. There is no narration and no interview. The full machine transcript runs, in order:
"Where is he? Amy! Go. Run! Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my God. Oh, my gosh. Hey, stop! Stop, folks. Back up, back up, back up."
Two distinct voices matter. The first is a bystander close to the microphone, calling a name ("Amy") and shouting "Go. Run!" — this is the crowd-dispersal moment, not a reaction to the shot itself, which is already past. The second, near the end of the clip, is an officer's voice: "Hey, stop! Stop, folks. Back up, back up, back up." That command lands at roughly 0:27, at the same moment a uniformed officer moves into frame with a firearm drawn. The instruction is crowd control directed at people advancing toward the vehicle staging area, not a challenge to a fleeing individual.
"Where is he?" is the one line worth flagging. It is spoken by a bystander with no visibility of the stage area and cannot be read as knowledge of anything. In an active-shooter aftermath, it is the ordinary question.
What The Footage Shows
The frames are narrower than the panic on the soundtrack implies. Nothing in this clip shows the shot, the stage, the tent, or Charlie Kirk. What it does show is the vehicle staging area and the crowd being pushed back from it.
- 00:00 - 00:03: Hand-held shot from under a concrete overhang, panning right to left across a grassy area where a crowd is gathered behind barricades.
- 00:03 - 00:04: The camera tilts up to the event signage — Turning Point USA branding and the sponsor banner for Yrefy, the student-loan refinancing firm that sponsored the American Comeback Tour.
- 00:05 - 00:10: Cut to a view of the parking area as black SUVs arrive. People in the foreground move toward the vehicles; the camera pans right across more parked SUVs.
- 00:10 - 00:15: Rapid movement through the crowd behind a barricade; a man climbs a gravel slope; a brief close-up of a woman in a pink polo speaking.
- 00:16 - 00:22: A run of quick shots of people moving through the parking area and concrete walkways, several looking directly into the lens.
- 00:23 - 00:26: A group of security personnel clustered tightly around someone near a black SUV.
- 00:27 - 00:29: A police officer enters frame from the right with a firearm in hand, shouting the "Stop" and "Back up" commands heard on the transcript.
- 00:30 - 00:31: The woman in the pink polo and a man in a grey shirt walk away; the crowd is still visible behind them.
Two details are worth pulling out. First, the 00:23 shot of a security cluster around a single person by a black SUV is the kind of frame that has been read on social media as the principal being loaded into a vehicle; this clip does not resolve who that is, and the write-up does not assert it. Second, the presence of a drawn firearm at 00:27 places an armed officer in the crowd area at a point when, on the public timeline, the shooter's position had already been evacuated. The clip does not tell you which agency the officer belongs to.
How It Connects
- Ten Minutes After the Shot — the minute-by-minute reconstruction this clip helps anchor.
- Shooting Minute By Minute — the broader Sept 10 sequence.
- UVU Courtyard — the venue geometry, including the vehicle staging area seen here.
- Eyewitness Mobile Video — how bystander phone captures like this one are being collected and treated as evidence.
- Security Team — the private detail and campus police contingent whose movements the last ten seconds of this clip record.
- SUV Transporting Charlie — the vehicle question this footage bears on directly.
Other Videos In This Section
- UVU Courtyard: Crowd Takes Cover at the Fountain
- UVU Crowd From Above: Three-Second Fragment
- News B-Roll: UVU Crime Scene, Ladder, and Barricaded Classrooms
- Walking Out: The Lawn and the Cleared Stage
- Eight Seconds: A Protective Detail Loads a Vehicle
- News B-Roll (Archive Copy): Scanners, Ladder, Barricaded Rooms