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Black Clothing Figure — Top Rooftop Suspect (Unidentified)

Short clip — the all-black eyewitness thread. Source: @ProjectConstitu on X, April 19, 2026.

An unidentified man in all-black tactical clothing — black trench coat, black C-mask, black sunglasses, black cargo pants, small backpack, and long greasy black hair — was independently described by police dispatch, by a construction crew next to the UVU campus, and by the only pre-shooting video of the roof. This silhouette does not match Tyler Robinson, who is charged wearing a T-shirt and jeans. This site now treats this figure as the most serious person of interest for whoever was prone on the roof — not as a distraction. No living person is named or accused here; the figure remains publicly unidentified.

Reclassified: suspect, not distraction​

This profile originally sat among the UVU distraction / other-person threads. Based on the weight of the converging accounts below — a real-time dispatch description, a face-to-face construction-crew encounter, a canine track, and the lone rooftop video — the investigation now ranks this figure as the top candidate for the person who was actually on the roof. He is listed under Suspects on the People index. The fuller dossier lives at Suspects — Black Clothing Suspect; this page keeps the on-the-ground sighting record.

Police dispatch — real-time description (all black)​

In the minutes after the shot, Utah County dispatch broadcast a suspect description while events were still unfolding — before the FBI took over and before Robinson was named. Per the dispatch audio preserved in the investigation file:

"...active shooter at the Charlie Kirk event... going to be wearing all black, black long gun, black tactical helmet, a black mask. Possibly wearing a tactical vest... long rifle."

This real-time description matches the black-clad figure below and the prone rooftop figure in the pre-shooting video — and contrasts with the T-shirt-and-jeans image later attached to Robinson (dispatch audio, per @ProjectConstitu, Apr 19 2026).

Ran through the construction site — face-to-face encounter​

The most concrete sighting comes from the construction crew working at 785 College Dr, Orem, UT 84058, immediately adjacent to campus. According to construction worker Dylan Hope (reported as a 26-year-old electrician), a colleague operating an excavator spoke with the man in all black immediately after the shooting:

  • The man crossed into / moved through the construction site — the same path the FBI says the fleeing shooter used — and was reportedly the only person to do so.
  • He asked if he could walk through the site, saying he was "just trying to get home safe after a shooting."
  • Per the account, he admitted someone had been shot before sirens even started wailing — suggesting knowledge of the event before it was public.
  • The encounter was unusual enough to draw a police response: officers reportedly arrived and the crew was later shown a suspect photo (per Hope's account, via @ProjectConstitu, Apr 19 2026).

These are attributed witness statements, not adjudicated facts. Dylan Hope is a living witness; nothing here accuses him of any wrongdoing — the page describes only what he is reported to have observed. See Dylan Hope and Construction Site — 785 College Dr.

Canine track to an adjacent property​

According to the same account, officers later arrived with a canine unit and tracked the black-clad man through the construction site to an adjacent property. No unusual vehicles were reportedly spotted nearby — raising the question of whether he left on foot the whole way or whether a vehicle waited at a pre-arranged pickup point. Commentary alleges this lead was dropped once the FBI took over and the narrative pivoted to Robinson.

The only pre-shooting video — prone on the roof, in black​

Full interview — construction worker Dylan Hope speaks out. Source: @ProjectConstitu on X, April 19, 2026.

The only video evidence recorded before the assassination — filmed roughly one hour before the shot — reportedly shows a person lying prone on the same roof Kirk was shot from, dressed in all black, consistent with the dispatch description and Hope's account and inconsistent with Robinson's reported clothing. A separate clip reportedly shows an individual running on the roof after the shot. Per CNN's analysis cited in the file, the two events happened about 150 yards from where Kirk was sitting, and if that prone figure was the shooter he "could obviously have been in position well before this event began" (CNN analysis, via @ProjectConstitu, Apr 19 2026).

Sheriff photo vs FBI photo — the mismatch​

According to the crew, local sheriffs showed them a suspect photo (reportedly on the Wednesday), and the excavator operator said it matched the man he had spoken with. But workers say that photo did not match the image the FBI released to the public the next day. Hope reportedly said the FBI image "didn't line up." If local officers and federal agents were circulating different visual targets, the public manhunt was chasing a different man than the crew closest to the escape path saw. See FBI — Black Clothing Photo.

Candace Owens' filmmaker witness — "NOT the guy"​

Per reporting by Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO), the person who filmed the only footage of the shooter on the roof — described as someone with firearms experience who teaches shooting — has stated definitively that "Tyler Robinson is NOT the guy":

  • The roof figure was in an entirely different outfit — tactical gear, not a T-shirt and jeans.
  • The gun visible in the footage reportedly does not match Robinson's rifle.
  • The recovered bullet fragments were reportedly too fragmented to match Robinson's rifle.
  • The witness reportedly plans to testify that "that doesn't look like the gun, that doesn't look like the person" (per Candace Owens coverage, via @ProjectConstitu, Apr 19 2026).

These are attributed allegations. Robinson is charged, not convicted, and this page names no alternative individual as the shooter.

Open questions​

  1. Who is the man in all black — prone on the roof, then encountered by the construction crew?
  2. Where did the canine trail lead after the adjacent property, and was it ever followed up?
  3. What did the sheriff's Wednesday photo show, and why did it reportedly differ from the FBI's public image?
  4. Were the construction-site cameras and the pre-shooting rooftop video preserved and entered as evidence?
  5. Did any FBI Form 302 record Dylan Hope's account and the excavator operator's face-to-face encounter?

Status​

Status: Unidentified on this site. No living person is named as this figure, and no accusation is made against any named person. Dylan Hope and any construction worker are treated purely as reported witnesses.

Laws (Charlie Kirk)​

  • The dispatch audio, the sheriff's original suspect photo the FBI replaced, the K-9 tracking logs to the adjacent property, the construction-site cameras, and the pre-shooting rooftop video of the man in all black are things that the Charlie Kirk Investigation Laws may bring into public view.

Ongoing X framing (2026)​

Hearing-era posts still contrast the all-black rooftop figure in early dispatch/canine-track narratives with later Robinson clothing packages. Citizen investigators treat black-clothing stills as a competing visual identity thread, not a resolved second-shooter verdict. Keep claims tied to dispatch audio, stills, and photo mismatches already catalogued above; do not invent new named shooters.

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