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UVU Campus Surveillance

Unlike the neighborhood Ring and WYZE cameras, UVU campus surveillance is an official institutional system covering walkways, parking lots, building exteriors, and some rooftops. It is the backbone of the probable-cause affidavit: investigators say they reviewed UVU's cameras and used them to track a rooftop suspect across campus in the hour before the shot.

What the affidavit says the cameras showed​

According to the affidavit of probable cause, investigators reviewed UVU surveillance and observed an individual on the rooftop of the Losee Center at the time of the shooting, referred to as "Suspect." From the footage the suspect is described as a white male in a dark hat, sunglasses, a long-sleeve black shirt with an American flag and eagle, dark jeans, and white/gray Converse-style shoes, carrying a dark backpack and walking with a distinctive stiff, slow, right-leg gait (source: probable-cause affidavit quoted in [Charlie_Kirk.txt]).

The tracked movements begin at approximately 11:50 a.m. on 9/10/2025:

  • ~11:50 a.m. — UVU camera first captures the suspect walking across a grassy area north of Campus Drive at about 800 West, then south through a parking lot toward a pedestrian tunnel under Campus Drive.
  • ~11:53 a.m. — Suspect pauses at the top of the tunnel stairs and pulls what appears to be a cellphone from his right pocket, then returns it.
  • ~12:02 p.m. — Suspect recorded on the north side of the Losee Center, then enters through doors on the building's southeast corner.
  • 12:23 p.m. — The shot is fired during the UVU event.

Rooftop stills mapping the exit​

Citizen-research notes describe a sequence of UVU/building surveillance stills timestamped 12:23:29, 12:23:34, 12:23:45, and 12:23:54, with red arrows tracing a figure's path from the shooting-position area toward the northeast corner of the Losee Center (source: image description in [Charlie_Kirk.txt]). These frames are used to argue how the suspect left the roof in the seconds after the shot.

An earlier morning sighting​

In addition to the 11:50 a.m. rooftop track, the released morning timeline includes one earlier UVU-surveillance frame:

  • 8:29 a.m. — UVU surveillance, the figure driving on campus (source: investigation notes, [Charlie_Kirk.txt]).

This is the only UVU-camera sighting that predates the late-morning rooftop sequence, and the only one showing a vehicle on campus.

Open questions about UVU footage (claims)​

Public commentary raises recurring questions that UVU's footage could answer:

  • Were all relevant UVU recordings preserved and provided to investigators and defense counsel under a proper chain of custody?
  • Are there unreleased angles — certain rooftops, the tunnel, building edges — that could test the single-rooftop-shooter narrative?
  • Do the recordings clearly show the suspect's face, or only the gait and clothing used to infer identity? This bears directly on the placeholder/decoy question.

These are transparency questions, not findings that footage was lost or withheld. A related, separate concern about institutional footage handling is covered at Hospital Security Cameras Removed.