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The Losee Center Roof From Chopper 5 — Tape, Gravel, No Visible Screwdriver

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:::caution Nobody here is accused of wrongdoing This page describes what is and is not visible in public aerial footage. Altitude, camera angle and compression all limit what a helicopter can resolve on a roof surface. Officer Chris Bagley is a living witness, not a suspect, and nothing on this page asserts that any person acted improperly. :::

What This Video Shows​

KSL Chopper 5 aerial footage of the Losee Center roof at Utah Valley University, filmed after the September 10, 2025 shooting. Running time 1:35 — this is the longest sustained aerial look at the roof deck in the investigation's video corpus, and considerably longer than the 13-second cut circulated more widely.

The camera holds a high oblique angle and works across the roof rather than cutting away, which is what makes the clip useful: large areas of the gravel and membrane surface are shown continuously and at length.

Two things are visible in it, and one thing is not:

  • Yellow tape is present. A single run of yellow tape crosses the roof deck and is anchored at a low circular roof vent. It is visible from the opening seconds and returns repeatedly through the clip, including in tight framing around the 1:00 mark.
  • Personnel are present. Between roughly 0:24 and 0:42 the camera passes over an adjacent raised terrace where a group of five to six people is standing — several in dark clothing consistent with law enforcement or investigators, with one person in lighter clothing among them. They are on the terrace, not on the roof deck where the tape runs.
  • No screwdriver is visible anywhere on the roof surface at any point in the clip.

That last point carries a real caveat, and the page states it rather than burying it: a screwdriver is a small object, and this is a helicopter at altitude shooting a broadside 1080p picture. A tool of that size sitting on grey gravel may simply be below what the camera can resolve. "Not visible in this footage" is what the clip supports. "Not there" is a stronger claim than the footage alone can carry.

Why Reviewers Point To It​

Reported testimony from Officer Bagley describes reaching the roof around 12:44 p.m., seeing a red-and-black screwdriver roughly 10–20 feet past the guardrail, and putting up yellow tape around the southwest roof area and access point. Citizen reviewers have pointed at news-helicopter footage as an independent check on that account.

This clip complicates a simple reading in both directions. Tape is up, so this footage is not from before the scene was secured. But the tape it shows runs across the open roof deck to a vent, not along a railing, and no tool is visible near either. Whether that is the same tape described in testimony, in the same place, at the same stage, is not settled by this clip and is recorded here as an open question rather than an answer.

The full comparison of testimony against aerial footage is on News Helicopter and the Screwdriver. The physical-tool side of the dispute is on The Screwdriver and the Crime-Scene Tape.

Where It Came From​

Captured from a post by @TootyTracksuit on X, where it was quoted by @Villgecrazylady in the "screwdriver wasn't on the roof" post. Source: https://x.com/TootyTracksuit/status/2080783022367162519

The shorter 13-second cut of KSL roof footage circulated by @Villgecrazylady is filed separately as Chopper 5 Over the Losee Center Roof, One Hour After.

Who Appears​

No one is on the taped roof deck. A group of five to six unidentified people stands on an adjacent raised terrace between roughly 0:24 and 0:42. None are identifiable from this altitude, and no person in this footage is named on this page.

On-Screen Text​

CHOPPER 5 bug, upper left. KSL station logo, lower left. No lower-third captions, no timestamp burn-in.

Shot By Shot​

  • 0:00–0:20 — Roof deck in frame. Yellow tape runs diagonally across the membrane surface and terminates at a circular roof vent. No people, no visible objects on the deck.
  • 0:20–0:45 — The camera drifts to an adjacent raised terrace. Five to six people stand together in a loose group. Several wear dark clothing; one wears lighter clothing.
  • 0:45–1:10 — Back over the roof. Tightest framing of the clip: the tape and the vent anchor fill much of the picture, and the gravel and membrane texture is resolvable. Nothing tool-shaped is present in frame.
  • 1:10–1:35 — Wider passes over the surrounding roof sections, pedestrian bridges and campus plaza before the clip ends.

Audio​

Essentially none of evidentiary value. The audio is rotor noise with brief cockpit chatter; the only intelligible line in the full transcription is an altitude call — "And we'll make sure we're so, uh, lower than 5,000. Come on." There is no narration and no reporter voice-over.

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