State's Exhibit 11 · in 3D
The injuries, one body part at a time
The medical examiner's report on Charlie Kirk is sealed. The only words of it the public can read are the lines prosecutors quoted in their brief. Pick a body part. Each page draws those injuries and walks through them two ways: if a bullet did it, and if a shaped charge exploded at his microphone.
- NeckThe "complex" entrance, four left-side vessels in the examiner's order, the broken voice box and windpipe
- BrainBleeding on the brain's surface, low at the back and on top
- HeartBlood inside the sac around the heart
- Lungs and chestBlood in both chest cavities, bleeding between the ribs on both sides, bleeding in the tops of the lungs
- SpineSix neck bones destroyed on the left; the spinal cord cut, a length of it missing
Two ways to read every injury
Every body page has two tabs in its top bar. Each tab walks through the same injuries, in the same 3D body, step by step as you scroll.
If Bullet The government's narrative
One .30-06 rifle round, fired from the Losee Center roof about 415 feet away and 68 feet higher, entering the front-left of his neck at a shallow downward angle: about 9 degrees by the sworn figures, about 6 in published estimates. Drawn exactly as the prosecutors describe it: "front to back, slightly left to right, and downward".
Shaped Charge Explosion The investigators' conclusion
A small shaped charge in the RØDE microphone transmitter he wore under his shirt on the upper right chest, about two inches below the neckline: a narrow jet driven up and across his body to the neck, about 45 degrees upward, and a pressure wave through his chest.
- Reached: this cause explains the injury
- Not reached without a second cause
- The State's bullet path
- The blast and jet
The injuries at a glance
| Body part | Exhibit 11's words, as quoted | If a bullet | If a shaped charge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neck | "complex entrance gunshot wound"; the left neck "sequentially perforated"; "multiple disruptions of the thyroid, cricoid, and tracheal cartilages" | Can be made to fit, but the examiner's order runs sideways, and a .30-06 stopped inside the neck | Damage fanning out from one point at the front-left of the neck |
| Spine | "obliterate[ed] the left side of the C2-7 vertebrae and transect[ed] the cervical spinal cord"; a "significant portion" "traumatically absent" | A near-level path meets the spine at one or two bones, not six | From below and in front, the damage climbs C7 to C2 |
| Lungs and chest | "left and right hemothorax"; "bilateral apical and posterior intercostal hemorrhages, pulmonary apical hemorrhages/hematomas" | The left side can be reached; the right side and the back cannot | A blast hits both sides of the chest at once |
| Heart | "hemopericardium" | The path stops in the neck; needs a second cause | The pressure wave bruises the heart; the sac fills |
| Brain | Subarachnoid bleeding around "the cerebellar vermis and the parietal regions" | The back, possibly; the top, no | A pressure surge up the arteries reaches both |
Where these words come from
State's Exhibit 11 is the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner's nine-page report. It was admitted at the preliminary hearing on July 6, 2026, through an agent who was not at the autopsy, and the judge barred it from publication. Three weeks later, the prosecutors quoted pieces of it in their bindover brief. Those quotes, a selection chosen and edited by the side trying to win the case, are every word of the report the public has. The examiner has never testified.
Inside the quotation marks the words are the examiner's, with the prosecutors' edits in square brackets and their cuts marked "…". The word "bullet", and the direction "front to back, slightly left to right, and downward", are the prosecutors' own words, written outside the quotation marks.
Read every quoted line on the Exhibit 11 page · Exhibit 11 Analysis · Cause of Death · The microphone