Utah Department of Public Safety and the Charlie Kirk Investigation

Showing 9 Utah Department of Public Safety videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

The Utah Department of Public Safety led much of the public communication around the investigation into Charlie Kirk's assassination at Utah Valley University. Commissioner Beau Mason announced Kirk's shooting and later confirmed it was being treated as a targeted political assassination, coordinating with the FBI on a manhunt that lasted roughly 33 hours before suspect Tyler Robinson surrendered. Mason later confirmed that Robinson made brief contact with a police officer near campus about six hours after the shooting, a detail that raised questions about his movements and demeanor in the hours before his eventual capture. Sergeant Jennifer Faumuina of the department's State Bureau of Investigation testified about the physical evidence collected from multiple scenes, including a screwdriver found on the rooftop used by the shooter and a bolt-action rifle recovered wrapped in a towel in nearby woods, along with the DNA testing that connected both items to Robinson. Independent researchers, including finance commentator Chris Martinson, publicly pressed the department and Turning Point USA to release additional camera and microphone footage from the event, along with the autopsy report, arguing that gaps in the public record were fueling speculation. Other commentary examined unusual Google search activity before the shooting and pushed back directly against online theories questioning whether Robinson acted alone.