I Saw It Live: My Eyewitness Account of Charlie Kirk’s UVU Event and Shooting

[00:00] And

[00:02] yeah, this is where Charlie stood or sat

[00:06] with a tent.

[00:09] Yeah,

[00:12] it was probably up there. We are on our

[00:14] way back to U campus now. It has been a

[00:18] month since the tragedy and there just

[00:21] have been a couple comments in the

[00:24] videos I posted

[00:26] and they were wondering people were

[00:28] wondering why I stopped recording at

[00:30] 12:12

[00:32] if the people that stood on the balcony

[00:34] if they could see um up on the roof

[00:39] someone laying down or not. Um,

[00:43] also if I could pinpoint

[00:46] where the shot came from,

[00:50] um, after hearing it and also just in

[00:53] general like what did Charlie see?

[00:57] What did backstage kind of look like

[01:00] where it was closed off?

[01:02] and we're just gonna record

[01:06] what the whole scene kind of looked like

[01:08] and I will tell you what um I saw,

[01:11] heard, and what it looks like today.

[01:15] Okay, so this is how it looked like

[01:18] backstage.

[01:20] The car came from over there

[01:24] and

[01:25] they drove this way. So all the students

[01:30] were in this side of the building. And

[01:32] this was kind of backstage

[01:34] where they probably had the meet and

[01:36] greet with the TPUSA chapter here at

[01:38] UVU.

[01:40] Yeah, you can see how it's you can see

[01:42] how it's closed off still. Okay, so this

[01:45] is where he came from this way.

[01:51] And as you can see, it's all taped off.

[01:54] He walked in and that's where the tent

[01:58] was set up.

[01:59] Now, let's go to the other side and

[02:04] see how it looks like right now. Okay,

[02:05] so this is where we just came from. And

[02:08] now on this part of campus, they have a

[02:12] little

[02:14] memorial site set up for Charlie.

[02:36] [Music]

[02:53] And this is a month later. Month and 5

[02:55] days.

[02:57] Wow.

[02:59] This is where

[03:01] I parked the bike. And we're going to

[03:03] head in the same doors as I did

[03:08] in just a second. I have to say, I don't

[03:10] know if it's just the weather, but this

[03:13] campus feels good. I don't know if I can

[03:15] say that in the video, but

[03:28] wow.

[03:33] Yeah, they took all the paint down,

[03:36] hung up the US flag.

[03:39] So apparently

[03:42] it was up there. It was that building.

[03:49] We stood right here

[03:51] on the third step.

[03:54] Like at least

[03:57] at least you see something. But

[04:00] if that guy just laid down on the rope,

[04:03] then

[04:05] it's kind of hard to see.

[04:11] Okay. So, it was the little safe center,

[04:15] which is this building. You can see

[04:16] right there. There's a tree in the way

[04:18] right now. So, let's let's head up and

[04:21] see from the

[04:23] from here.

[04:29] Okay.

[04:31] So

[04:34] there's a a tree in way right now in the

[04:37] way.

[04:39] You can kind of like start seeing it

[04:40] from here depending on where he was. The

[04:44] tape was

[04:47] right here. So people were standing on

[04:49] this side

[04:52] and like yeah that tree is in the way

[04:56] and it is kind of hard like just to see

[04:58] and to pay attention to that. So, I

[05:01] think

[05:03] this whole crowd, most of them just did

[05:05] not see it. Most because of the tree.

[05:07] Like, you can't really see through the

[05:09] tree.

[05:10] Like, when you're right here,

[05:13] okay, that makes that makes more sense.

[05:16] But to be very honest,

[05:19] with how big this event was,

[05:22] no one just paid attention to it. Like,

[05:25] who would have thought, you know?

[05:27] So, yeah, all of this was empty. It was

[05:29] closed off right here and right there.

[05:32] And yeah, theoretically like

[05:36] he could have seen something, but

[05:39] it's kind of hard to see.

[05:42] And this is

[05:44] this is where he stood.

[05:49] Wow.

[05:53] There's another memorial down here.

[06:05] So this here I believe was the line of

[06:08] students who wanted to debate Charlie

[06:10] and they were just lined up right here

[06:13] to have a funnel to the mic.

[06:16] And so like in the video that I posted,

[06:18] you could see students standing here in

[06:21] line with MAGA hats and everything. So,

[06:24] this was the line I believe that led up

[06:26] to the mic.

[06:28] And

[06:30] yeah, this is where Charlie stood or sat

[06:35] with the tent.

[06:38] Yeah,

[06:40] he was probably up there.

[06:44] This is what it looks like from his

[06:45] perspective.

[06:49] Wow. So, a lot of people asked if I

[06:52] could pinpoint where the shot came from.

[06:55] And to be honest, the walls up here,

[06:59] they reflected the sound of it.

[07:03] And

[07:05] when I heard it, as I said in the other

[07:08] video, it sounded kind of high pitched.

[07:11] And it does to me it does make sense as

[07:14] having witnessed it that it came from

[07:17] about 200 yards behind me. cuz I stood

[07:21] right there and when I heard it

[07:25] about 08 to 1 second or 1 second after

[07:31] I heard the shot only then I saw the

[07:36] impact and whatever happened after that

[07:39] was Charlie. So to me it totally makes

[07:42] sense that it has happened from a bit

[07:46] further away on a roof.

[07:49] um most likely exactly where everyone

[07:52] says it happened.

[07:55] And yeah, so to me it makes sense. I

[07:58] heard it. I think it came from the back.

[08:01] Um this is not proof of anything that it

[08:04] actually was from up there, but just

[08:06] from me having heard it, I think it's

[08:08] very logical and I believe it. So

[08:13] another question was why did I stop

[08:14] filming at 12:12?

[08:17] And the simple answer, which people just

[08:20] don't want to believe, is there's no

[08:23] hiding. There's no I cut it out and just

[08:25] didn't post it. I just did not want to

[08:27] stand there with my phone for like two

[08:29] hours and record the video with poor

[08:33] audio quality. Um, on top of that, what

[08:36] people have complained about was I said

[08:38] that I wanted to stand in the frame so

[08:40] that like I could be seen in the

[08:42] background, which is true 100%. Um, and

[08:45] on top of that, I just did not want to

[08:46] stand there like with my phone up. So,

[08:50] as the debate started, I was like,

[08:52] "Okay, this is what I will see on

[08:54] YouTube, and I do not have to record

[08:57] myself." So, that's why I stopped at

[08:59] 12:12. And I'm sorry that I do not have

[09:01] more footage from this angle. Um, but it

[09:05] is what it is. If I knew what if I if I

[09:07] knew this would have happened, I would

[09:09] have done way more things differently

[09:11] than I did. But like obviously like yeah

[09:15] it just sorry for not doing that. It is

[09:19] what it is. But yeah.

[09:23] So yeah, there you have it. This is how

[09:26] it looks like a month after it happened.

[09:30] It was Charlie's birthday yesterday. So

[09:32] happy birthday Charlie. Hope you're

[09:33] doing well in heaven.

[09:36] And

[09:37] yeah,

[09:41] I'll see you guys very soon. Bye.