The #11 Clue Everyone Missed in the Charlie Kirk Shooting

[00:00] shoots one shot, kills his target,

[00:04] estimates range, but around 200 m

[00:08] and then escapes and nobody sees him. So

[00:13] you you in any investigation, you let

[00:15] the facts take you where they take you.

[00:17] You don't make any presumptions and

[00:20] again indicating that this is a

[00:22] sophisticated individual. One shot

[00:25] hitting the target from 200 meters away

[00:27] and then escaping without anybody seeing

[00:29] them. Those are the hallmarks of a

[00:32] professional.

[00:33] I got nightmares in my head. I feel

[00:40] my minds.

[00:52] Hello and welcome to True Crime Rocket

[00:55] Science. That was former New York State

[00:57] Senator and Homeland Security Adviser

[01:00] Michael Baloni, whom Fox News describes

[01:03] as a security expert weighing in on the

[01:06] Charlie Kirk assassination. He did so on

[01:08] 11th September, but I guess he either

[01:11] hadn't seen the news by then or if he

[01:13] had didn't think much of it because of

[01:16] course, as we know, the shooter was seen

[01:18] several times and that's hardly the mark

[01:21] of a professional. Has anyone here read

[01:23] the book The Day of the Jackal? Anyone

[01:26] watched the series? That narrative is

[01:29] what a professional assassination looks

[01:31] and feels like? I think a movie like

[01:33] Wanted, despite its hyperbole, stresses

[01:37] an entirely different point about

[01:39] professional assassins. It's that they

[01:41] can hit a target from an almost

[01:43] unfathomable distance. By that measure,

[01:47] those who are claiming that Charlie Kirk

[01:49] was shot from the side, well, that would

[01:52] be even closer than the identified

[01:54] sniper's nest. Not much of a shot then

[01:57] if he needed to be that close. And

[01:59] besides that, he must have had a round

[02:01] capable of boomeranging in some way in

[02:04] order for it not to perforate the 10

[02:06] Kirk was sitting under. And bear in

[02:08] mind, he was sitting close to the

[02:09] middle. But there's a far more obvious

[02:12] reason this wasn't a professional

[02:13] sniper. And that's the number 11 clue

[02:16] everyone missed. The point of impact,

[02:18] which I won't show here, but many have

[02:21] clearly seen tells us everything. It hit

[02:24] the target, yes, but like the Thomas

[02:26] Crook shooting, it almost missed the

[02:28] target. But before we get to that, if

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[03:01] let's get started. So, the number 11

[03:04] clue everyone missed was this point of

[03:06] impact. What does that tell us about the

[03:08] shooter? Does it really tell us that

[03:10] we're dealing with a professional

[03:12] sniper? Or does it tell us something

[03:14] else? You know, just a few inches high

[03:17] and the bullet would have sailed right

[03:19] over Charlie Kirk's shoulder. I don't

[03:21] know whether the shooter was aiming for

[03:23] the head or the heart, but either way,

[03:25] he missed. Perhaps because of his

[03:27] training as a hunter and perhaps because

[03:29] of what happened in the Thomas Crooks

[03:31] attempt, the shooter aimed for the

[03:33] torso. Although he struck it, he very

[03:36] nearly didn't. And because it was

[03:38] offtarget for a short period of time,

[03:40] Charlie, as far as I know, actually

[03:42] survived the shooting. I think two

[03:44] additional reasons we can clearly see

[03:46] it's not a professional snipe is how he

[03:48] botched the forest drop. This must be

[03:51] one of the dumbest errors not just an

[03:53] assassin can make, but any murderer

[03:56] using a firearm. It's leaving the murder

[03:58] weapon at or near the scene and allowing

[04:01] law enforcement to find it and take it

[04:04] into custody. And what happens when that

[04:06] happens? Not only do you have the murder

[04:08] weapon, but you have the fingerprints,

[04:10] DNA, all of these other evidentiary

[04:13] items, including the rounds that he

[04:16] engraved on uh associated with that

[04:19] evidence as well. Besides that, as we

[04:22] know, the firearm used was not typical.

[04:26] it is a lot older than usual and uh I

[04:29] think its serial number will will de

[04:31] demonstrate that basically or even lack

[04:33] of serial number basically that we're

[04:35] talking about a world war one or two era

[04:39] firearm that has been modified to some

[04:41] extent also I think the fact that he

[04:43] mentions in his text to his friend about

[04:47] the scope and the fact that a scope was

[04:49] used that's likely going to tell you a

[04:52] lot as well many people have inferred

[04:54] that the use of the screwdriver driver

[04:56] was to disassemble and reassemble the

[04:59] firearm. As far as I'm concerned, the

[05:02] the use of that screwdriver was to

[05:05] simply attach that scope, which he said

[05:08] would cost $2,000. That's another thing.

[05:10] If you can check that scope, and it does

[05:13] cost $2,000, once again, you verifying

[05:16] the authenticity of the story of the

[05:19] shooter. Now coming back to this idea of

[05:22] the murder weapon actually being found

[05:24] at the scene. Is that very often? Is

[05:26] that something we come across very often

[05:29] in the murder case? And by the way, as I

[05:31] say, new series dropping on Disney this

[05:34] week, I believe on the 15th. In that

[05:36] case, the murder weapon, the gun that

[05:38] killed Maggie and the firearm that Paul

[05:41] was was murdered with, they were never

[05:44] found. Do I have that right? says here

[05:47] the guns used to kill Maggie and Paul

[05:49] murder were never found. Prosecutors

[05:51] alleged that Maggie was killed by with a

[05:54] 300 blackout rifle and Paul was killed

[05:56] with a 12 gauge shotgun, both of which

[05:59] are described as family weapons. While

[06:02] the specific 12- gauge shotgun was

[06:04] reportedly in Alex Murdo's possession

[06:07] when the first deputy arrived on the

[06:08] scene, the assault style rifle used to

[06:11] kill Maggie and the replacement for Paul

[06:14] Stolen 300 Blackout rifle have not been

[06:16] recovered. Now, I must say the fact that

[06:20] two different firearms were used does

[06:22] suggest almost in a way two different

[06:25] shooters, doesn't it?

[06:27] In fact, the shooting looks and feels to

[06:29] me, this is in terms of the Charlie Kirk

[06:32] case, exactly like the sort of thing

[06:34] that took about a week to plan, which is

[06:36] to say, not zero planning, but also not

[06:39] much. Certainly not nearly enough. One

[06:42] has to wonder what mixture of media and

[06:45] internet slush informed this shooter's

[06:48] mindset and motive. What was he fueling

[06:51] his interior monologue with or basically

[06:55] his interior psychology with? In the

[06:58] 2008 movie Wanted, the false and frankly

[07:01] criminal ruse of taking control and

[07:04] fulfilling one's destiny is depicted by

[07:07] someone who follows in his father's

[07:09] footsteps. Well, this is where his

[07:11] father is an assassin and then he

[07:13] becomes an assassin.

[07:16] >> This is me taking back control.

[07:20] of my life.

[07:24] >> It may seem that way and it may seem

[07:26] that way in particular to gullible

[07:28] 20somes. It may even feel that way, but

[07:31] really it's the opposite. Anytime

[07:33] someone picks up a firearm to expressly

[07:36] shoot someone else, it tends to be about

[07:38] losing control. Especially since what

[07:41] follows is a whole long epilogue of not

[07:44] only not being in control, but not even

[07:46] being free. What did you think was going

[07:48] to happen

[07:50] >> in the real world? The next page of that

[07:52] story is arrest and then pages and pages

[07:56] up until the end of the book which deal

[07:58] with a long date with the four walls of

[08:01] a prison cell. If this was a

[08:04] professional sniper and someone formed

[08:06] part of some sort of faction, one can

[08:09] imagine several people being involved,

[08:11] including someone driving a vehicle,

[08:14] someone taking the weapon and

[08:16] dismantling it, and someone neutralizing

[08:18] the cameras, none of which happened

[08:20] here. The FBI feel that this was a lone

[08:24] wolf who was radicalized online. You may

[08:27] not believe that, but certainly the type

[08:30] of shot doesn't seem to support a

[08:32] professional sniper. And so the number

[08:34] 11 clue we all missed does show, I

[08:37] think, a very strong reinforcement for

[08:41] this idea that we are dealing with

[08:43] someone who wasn't a professional

[08:44] sniper, someone who was a lone wolf,

[08:47] someone who didn't really know what he

[08:49] was doing, and someone who was caught

[08:52] very quickly afterwards as a result of

[08:54] all that. Does that make sense? Well,

[08:57] I'm not going to take it further than

[08:58] that except just to say that I think the

[09:00] the bullet found in Charlie Kirk's body

[09:03] is going to be matched to the firearm

[09:05] used and the firearm is then going to be

[09:07] matched to Tyler Robinson. If it is,

[09:10] that is going to show unambiguously that

[09:13] he was the shooter, then I'm not quite

[09:15] sure where the conspiracy theorists are

[09:17] going to be able to wiggle in terms of

[09:20] that. uh is there is it then the court

[09:23] process that is corrupt or is there some

[09:26] conspiracy at that level? In any event,

[09:28] we've got to still wait and see for some

[09:30] additional evidence to come out. The

[09:33] search warrants and of course the trial

[09:35] is still upcoming as well and we'll be

[09:38] looking out for that. All right, thank

[09:40] you for listening and I'll see you guys

[09:42] next time.

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