Nick — UVU Witness
A young man identified only as Nick is one of the on-the-ground witnesses to the September 10, 2025 shooting at Utah Valley University. He spoke on camera in a street interview that was posted to X by @MuppetMasher on 2026-05-11. The post says Nick's full name was given in the interview but the account chose to focus on the substance of his account rather than his identity.
Status: Alive
Source: @MuppetMasher on X · 2026-05-11
Witness "Nick" interviewed at UVU after the September 10, 2025 shooting. Source: @MuppetMasher on X, 2026-05-11.
What @MuppetMasher said about the clip
According to @MuppetMasher on X, 2026-05-11:
This kid is named Nick (his full name is in the interview if you want it). I'm more interested in his story than his identity. It's hard to find any witness that says it sounded like a large calibre rifle. Lots of pops, fireworks, smaller calibre or pistol sounds but none saying it was 30-06. His description of trajectory is interesting.
The framing matters: the account is curating witness testimony around two evidentiary questions that recur across the investigation — what the gunfire actually sounded like (consistent with a 30-06 Mauser 98 or with something else) and what trajectory the shot reportedly took.
Nick's account — what he heard
In the interview, Nick is asked what he saw. According to his on-camera statement:
So I was just watching him speak and he was talking about gang violence and then I'd just hear like a loud pop.
His description — "a loud pop" — fits the pattern @MuppetMasher highlights: witnesses describing the sound as a single sharp report rather than the heavier crack typically associated with a high-powered rifle round. For ballistic context, see the Gun & Bullet section, which catalogs the calibre and rifle that the official narrative attributes to the shooter.
Crowd reaction — "they cheered when he got shot"
Nick reportedly describes the moment of the shot and the immediate aftermath:
I'm looking at him and it doesn't even look real, like — when I was on the floor, there were some group of people at the top, they cheered when he got shot. And I was just appalled.
According to Nick's statement, a group of people positioned at the top of the venue reportedly cheered at the moment Charlie Kirk was hit. This is a specific, falsifiable claim about crowd reaction at a specific location within the venue. Confirming or refuting it would require event-camera footage from that section of UVU; see Cameras / Surveillance for the broader question of which camera angles have and have not been released.
Trajectory — "the shot came from my left, so his right"
Asked whether he had a direction the shot came from and whether he believed there was a single shooter, Nick reportedly answers:
Yeah, so I was facing towards him and it looked like the shot came from my left — so his right — and it just went through his neck and out the other side. It was gruesome.
This is the trajectory detail that @MuppetMasher flags as "interesting." Nick is facing Kirk; the shot, by his account, comes from Nick's left, which is Kirk's right, and exits the other side of Kirk's neck. Cross-reference this with the trajectory analyses on the Shooting Locations and Proof Not Tyler pages, where the geometry of the official scenario is examined against witness reports.
Why this account matters
Nick's interview is reportedly one of several witness accounts in which the sound is described as a pop or smaller-calibre report rather than as a heavy rifle shot. The Gun & Bullet page describes the calibre and rifle that the official narrative attributes to the shooting; readers can compare that to the sound profile witnesses report and decide for themselves whether the two are consistent. Compounded with the cheering-group detail and the right-side entry trajectory, Nick's account adds another data point to the ongoing question of whether the Shooting Locations and Proof Not Tyler analyses correctly reflect what happened on the ground.
Full transcript
The complete machine-generated transcript of the @MuppetMasher interview clip:
What you saw?
So I was just watching him speak and he was talking about gang violence and then I'd just hear like a loud pop. And I'm looking at him and it doesn't even look real. Like, when I was on the floor, there were some group of people at the top — they cheered when he got shot. And I was just appalled.
I agree. Now when you saw what you saw, did you have a certain direction that you heard the shot come from, or did you think it was just one shooter?
Yeah, so I was facing towards him and it looked like the shot came from my left, so his right, and it just went through his neck and out the other side. It was gruesome.
From video testimony in @MuppetMasher's X post, posted 2026-05-11.
X.com posts:
Laws (Charlie Kirk)
- Nick's full FBI Form 302 interview report and the withheld UVU camera footage showing the cheering group and ballistics on the true caliber and shot trajectory are things that the Charlie Kirk Investigation Laws may result in powerful truths coming out that aren't out yet.
Why Nick’s Clip Still Circulates
@MuppetMasher highlighted Nick because:
- Sound described as a loud pop, not a heavy rifle crack — pattern many witnesses share.
- Claim of a group "at the top" cheering when Kirk was hit.
- Trajectory description: from Nick’s left / Kirk’s right through the neck.
These points feed both acoustics debates and crowd-behavior research. They do not, alone, identify a second shooter.
Interesting In This Area
- EksAyn Anderson is a front-row question, not an accusation, on this same witness index.
- One witness reversed chest to neck between two stations about an hour apart.
- Second-row viewers describe blood from the middle of the chest, repeated by others.
- None of the chest-wound witnesses has been called to testify in the case.
Interesting In Other Areas
- Professional 48kHz audio reportedly separates a distant report from a louder event at the stage.
- The Mauser .30-06 is the state's narrative; ATF called the fragment inconclusive.
- Roof footage reportedly shows no muzzle flash and no recoil at the alleged position.
- The cause-of-death record treats the earliest, least-rehearsed descriptions as the most valuable.
Other Pages In This Section
Shot in the Chest, Then the Neck — One Witness, Two Accounts
One witness, two accounts: chest first, then neck. The page tracks when the account changed, and what else changed around it.
Read this"You Just See It Hit His Chest" — Second-Row Witnesses Describe a Heart Shot
Second-row witnesses describe the impact landing on Kirk's chest and blood coming from the middle of it — one says outright he was shot in the heart. The white shirt shows no chest wound, which is what makes the pattern worth explaining.
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EksAyn Anderson — Front-Row Question
One question posted to X about a man reportedly seated in the front-row reserve section — a Utah author and speaker who bills himself as a human-behaviour expert. It is a question about a seat, not an accusation, and the page keeps it that way.
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Wrong Witnesses — Why the Same Wrong Detail?
Several on-camera witnesses described a chest or heart wound within minutes of the shot. None has been called to testify in the case built on the state's rifle theory, so the accounts survive only as interviews.
Read thisElsewhere In The Investigation
Canon XA55 Audio — Three Booms and Stage Detonation
Professional four-channel audio recorded about forty-six meters from the tent. Researchers say it separates a distant blast from a much louder event at the stage — two sounds, two places.
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Mauser .30-06 Rifle — Official Narrative
The state's weapon: a scoped Mauser Model 98 in .30-06, tied to a grandfather and a World War I story. Commentators note the recovered rifle is a commercial 98 rather than a K98, and that M98 Mausers were not factory-chambered in .30-06 in that era.
Read thisCitizen reviewers say roof surveillance shows no muzzle flash and no rifle recoil at the moment Kirk was hit. It is used to argue the roof figure was a decoy rather than the source of the harm.
Read thisWitnesses near the tent mostly described pops, fireworks or a pistol — not the heavy crack of a rifle fired 120 metres away. The page also records a campus alert declaring a suspect in custody nineteen minutes in, when nobody was.
Read thisThis website's author is @HolonCitizen on X and YouTube/@HolonCitizen. Follow me there.
Interesting
- One witness reportedly said heart three times, then neck within the hour.
- The Fourth District judicial vacancy was posted months before the assassination.
- The 6:25 PM Miranda transcript carries a time but no date.