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Zach Costello Questions FBI's Charlie Kirk Assassination Narrative After Candace Owens Reveals Eyewitness Statement Contradicting Official Story
Zach Costello examines explosive new evidence from an eyewitness who recorded video moments before Charlie Kirk was shot. Candace Owens tracked down the witness, who claims the shooter wore tactical gear, used a different weapon than the FBI recovered, and doesn't match Tyler Robinson's description. The witness, experienced with firearms, says he saw the shot fired from the front and immediately told campus officials they had the wrong suspect. Costello compares body cam footage with FBI images and questions whether the gun with engravings and the transgender narrative might be misdirection from what actually happened.
Eyewitness Account Contradicts FBI Timeline and Shooter Description
Candace Owens made a significant announcement that she successfully contacted and obtained a statement from the eyewitness who captured video of the Charlie Kirk assassin moments before the shooting. Owens verified the video's metadata and timestamp, confirming it was recorded to the minute right before Charlie was shot. The eyewitness statement directly contradicts what the FBI has publicly stated and challenges the theory that Charlie was shot from behind.
Zach Costello, a political commentator, states this new information aligns with intelligence he has received from numerous sources over the past 48 hours. Military members, hunters, and sniper rifle builders have submitted tips through his channels, and a common theme emerged throughout many of these communications that he initially dismissed until seeing what Candace published about the eyewitness statement. The gun and Tyler Robinson are now in question.
Campus Walkthrough Reveals Eyewitness Vantage Point
Political commentator and journalist Stephen Gardner conducted a walkthrough of the UVU campus and retraced the steps that the FBI claims Tyler Robinson took to access the roof. Gardner walked up the stairwell where cameras captured the initial screenshots released by the FBI. He then described the eyewitness vantage point.
According to Gardner's reconstruction, a student arriving late for the Charlie Kirk event zoomed in past the Spark Automotive building toward the Losi Center and saw somebody run across the roof. While it appeared to be the Spark Automotive building, there is actually a large green belt and sidewalk between the two buildings, meaning the individual was on the Losi building. As the student was arriving, he zoomed in and observed someone lying on that building.
The eyewitness video captures the moment, with voices noting someone on the roof and stating that the person had just run from one location to another. This footage would become central to understanding what actually happened.
Candace Owens Tracks Down and Interviews the Witness
Candace Owens spent considerable time tracking down the individual who recorded the video. She described the lengthy process of calling people and waiting for responses to piece together accurate information. What the witness told her completely contradicts the narrative the FBI has presented.
Owens is working to confirm the exact identity of this individual, but noted he was straightforward in his communication. The witness has extensive training and experience with guns, and helps train people in that capacity. He stated that the FBI's claim that the shooter dropped onto the roof at 12:15 didn't make sense to him. According to his observation, the earliest the individual ran across, set up, and took the shots was 12:22.
The witness sent Owens all the metadata from the footage he captured. The metadata begins at 12:22 and extends into 12:23, the exact minute that Charlie was shot. The witness confirmed he saw the shot and had stopped recording only about 20 seconds before the shot rang out.
Shooter Description Doesn't Match Tyler Robinson
The witness provided authorities with a description of what the shooter looked like, and it was not the description the world received less than 24 hours later of Tyler Robinson wearing jeans. When Owens asked if the shooter was wearing jeans, the witness said no. The person was dressed in tactical gear and wearing a face mask.
According to the witness, who has extensive experience with firearms, the person looked like a foreign agent. While he acknowledged he didn't know exactly how he reached that conclusion based on the person wearing all black, he was certain this person was skilled, knew exactly what he was doing, and was highly trained like a professional assassin.
Immediately after George Zinnn was arrested and that information started circulating, the witness ran to someone on campus and insisted they had the wrong person. He stated he observed the shooter with his own eyes and authorities had a completely wrong description. The person they should be looking for was wearing tactical gear and was obviously young because he watched him sprint back after taking the shot with his own two eyes. For unknown reasons, this description of a person wearing tactical gear never made its way out publicly. Instead, the public was left with the description of someone wearing a veterans shirt with an American flag and jeans.
The Gun Doesn't Match What the Witness Saw
The witness made another statement that had not been previously heard. He knows guns, and the gun the FBI found was not the gun he saw. The gun he observed was smaller. In a direct text message to Owens, protecting his identity, the witness stated:
"Watching the video of the impact, hearing the sharp crack instead of a big hunting rifle's boom and seeing what looked like a shorter rifle platform, albeit with the absence of the shape of a standard 30 round magaZinne. The assassin may have used a 10 or 20 round magaZinne only expecting to shoot once or twice. I would guess that he was shot with a Hornady VMAX or similar lightweight 223 bullet designed for very rapid expansion. Of course, I don't have access to any autopsy reports like you might, but if they found small shards of copper rather than one large copper coated lead slug, that's the gun and bullet I would expect was used."
Front Shot Theory Supported by Witness Account
Most significantly, this eyewitness claims to have seen the shot fired. This means Charlie was shot from the front and not the rear. Many individuals very familiar with guns have stated that this front shot, given the sound of the crack and lack of exit wound, must have fired a 223 or 22 caliber bullet.
Costello expressed disbelief when he saw the witness statement because so many sources have been saying the exact same thing. They have also stated almost unanimously that a 3006 rifle would have sounded different and left a massive exit wound.
Questions About Tyler Robinson as the Actual Shooter
Costello states he doesn't like how Candace or the witness used the term "foreign agent," considering it a big leap. However, this information calls into question both the rifle the FBI recovered with the engravings and Tyler Robinson as the actual shooter. Given this evidence and additional analysis, Costello has high levels of doubt that Tyler Robinson is the actual shooter.
Consistent with the eyewitness report, footage shows the shooter running across the roof and then jumping down. He is holding something in his hand, and it would align with this being a smaller gun than the one that belongs to Robinson. He is wearing dark clothes and has a backpack on, so laying down in the prone position on the roof could certainly make it look like he was wearing tactical gear.
The images provided by the FBI are not lining up for Costello. The public was given photos of the individual coming up the stairwell by the FBI, but it would be helpful to see the actual video to compare Tyler Robinson, his face and mannerisms, to the police body cam footage that Costello has spent hours analyZinng.
Side-by-Side Comparison Raises More Questions
Costello attempted to view Tyler Robinson from different angles, from the side and back, to see if he could match the profile provided. He created side-by-side comparisons to examine whether the person in the FBI images looks like the person in the body cam footage.
It's the lips and chin structure that Costello cannot reconcile. While acknowledging he may have been examining the footage for too long, he feels these are not the same person. He asks viewers to share their observations.
Implications If the Gun and Shooter Are in Question
If the gun is in question, then Robinson is in question. This has significant implications. It could mean the entire transgender engravings and anti-fascist narrative isn't true. That narrative could be a distraction, though from what remains unclear.
Costello has seen others claim that questioning these things is divisive and stains the memory of Charlie. However, he points out that Charlie himself, regarding Trump's assassination attempt, wanted to get to the bottom of every single detail. Costello believes Charlie would want the same thorough investigation if this happened to anyone else.
Costello argues that what is actually divisive is the narrative that left-wing rhetoric incited a violent transgender person to assassinate a conservative leader. He poses the question: what if Tyler Robinson's gun wasn't actually the gun used and he didn't take the shot?
Seeking Truth, Not Division
The conspiracies that many say shouldn't be discussed are simply attempts to tie up loose ends and get questions answered that haven't been addressed. Costello challenges the notion that honoring Charlie's legacy means being a sheep who believes everything the government says, asking how that approach has worked out over the past five years.
The investigation continues as more witnesses come forward and more questions emerge about what actually happened that day on the UVU campus.
Video Transcript
[00:00] Candace Owens in a stunning announcement
[00:02] said that she was able to contact, speak
[00:04] with, and get a statement from the
[00:06] eyewitness who took this video of the
[00:09] Charlie Kirk assassin right before he
[00:11] took the shot. Candace verified the
[00:13] video's metadata and its timestamp to
[00:16] the minute right before Charlie was
[00:19] shot. His statement contradicts what the
[00:21] FBI has told us and the theory that
[00:24] Charlie was shot from behind. I wanted
[00:27] to get this video out as soon as
[00:28] possible though because this lines up
[00:31] with all of the intel that I have
[00:33] received as well. Thanks to all of you
[00:36] who have reached out and submitted tips,
[00:38] especially you military members,
[00:40] hunters, and sniper rifle builders. You
[00:43] know who you are. A bunch have come in
[00:45] over the past 48 hours, but there was a
[00:48] common theme throughout many of the
[00:51] comments that I receive that I began to
[00:53] notice, and I dismissed them until I saw
[00:56] what Candace published about the
[00:58] eyewitness statement. It is the gun and
[01:00] now Tyler Robinson that are now in
[01:03] question. Let's get into it. I'm Zach
[01:05] Costello.
[01:08] Political commentator and journalist
[01:09] Steven Gardner did a walkthrough of the
[01:11] UVU campus and retraced the steps that
[01:14] the FBI has told us that Tyler Robinson
[01:17] allegedly took to get on the roof. He
[01:19] walked up this stairwell, which you can
[01:22] see the camera right there. This gave us
[01:23] the initial camera screenshots that the
[01:25] FBI released. And he then describes the
[01:28] eyewitness view right here. Watch. So, a
[01:32] student comes in late for the Charlie
[01:33] Kirk event and he zooms in right here
[01:36] past the Spark Automotive over to the
[01:39] Los or the Losi Center and he sees
[01:42] somebody run across the roof. It looks
[01:44] like Spark Automotive, but there's
[01:46] actually a big green belt and a sidewalk
[01:48] in between the two buildings. So, he is
[01:50] on the Los building. Uh, and as that
[01:53] student was coming in, he zooms way in
[01:55] and says, "Hey, there's somebody laying
[01:56] there on that building." Now, here is
[01:59] that eyewitness video that he's
[02:00] referring to.
[02:01] >> Right up.
[02:02] >> Yeah. You think he'd already be in
[02:04] place?
[02:05] >> You would think that. So, there's
[02:07] somebody on the roof right there.
[02:09] >> Just saying.
[02:11] >> He just ran from uh
[02:13] >> over Where's my finger? Who from over
[02:16] there? Ran in.
[02:18] >> Now, he's right there. Just saying.
[02:21] >> Okay. Now, Candace Owens tracked down
[02:24] this individual. Listen here as she
[02:26] describes what he told her about what
[02:29] happened and then the statement that he
[02:31] made in writing to her about what he
[02:33] saw. This aligns with what many of you
[02:36] are telling me via the tip line. I had a
[02:39] conversation with that individual after
[02:40] all this running around. Hence the
[02:42] reason these episodes take so long to
[02:43] put together because you're calling
[02:45] people, you're waiting for responses.
[02:47] and what he said to me completely
[02:51] betrays the narrative of what the FBI
[02:54] has put out. I am working to quadruple
[02:58] confirm exactly who this individual is.
[03:01] Uh but he was very much um and maybe
[03:05] this is a poor way of saying it a
[03:07] straight shooter said yes you know I
[03:10] have training I um and I don't want to
[03:13] give too many identifying details here
[03:14] but this person himself has a lot of
[03:17] experience with guns and knows guns and
[03:21] um you know helps to train people in
[03:24] that sort of a capacity and said that
[03:27] they observed that individual the FBI
[03:29] saying that the shooter dropped onto the
[03:31] roof at 12:15. Didn't make sense to him.
[03:33] He said earliest it was 12:22 that the
[03:36] individual ran across, set up, took the
[03:39] shots, and I said, "Well, you must have
[03:40] been there." Because he then sends me um
[03:43] the I I wanted to see all of the
[03:45] metadata of when he took that footage.
[03:48] And it the metadata begins at 12:22
[03:52] and goes into 12:23, the very minute
[03:54] that Charlie gets shot. And he says,
[03:56] "Yeah, I saw the shot. I had just
[03:59] stopped recording about 20 seconds
[04:01] before the shot rang out. And he said
[04:04] that he told them a description of what
[04:08] the shooter looked like and it was not
[04:10] the description that the entire world
[04:13] received less than 24 hours later of
[04:15] this person, Tyler Robinson, wearing
[04:17] jeans. I said, "Was he wearing jeans?"
[04:19] He said, "No, actually uh this person
[04:23] was dressed in tactical gear and he was
[04:25] wearing a face mask." And he said,
[04:28] according to him, like I said, he has a
[04:29] lot of experience with guns, that this
[04:32] person looked to him like a foreign
[04:35] agent. I don't I don't know if he's
[04:36] wearing all black how he got that, but
[04:38] he said there's no he was very certain
[04:40] that this person was skilled, knew
[04:44] exactly what he was doing, and was
[04:45] highly trained, like a highly trained
[04:47] assassin, so to speak. Okay. He then
[04:49] says something else. As soon as George
[04:52] Zin got arrested and that started
[04:53] circulating, he ran to someone on campus
[04:55] and said, "This is the wrong person. I
[04:57] observed this person with my eyes. You
[04:59] have the complete wrong description. The
[05:01] person you're looking for is wearing
[05:02] tactical gear and is obviously young
[05:05] because I watched him sprint back after
[05:06] taking the shot. I saw this with my own
[05:08] two eyes." And for whatever reason, that
[05:11] never made its way out that we can see
[05:13] of a description of a person wearing
[05:15] tactical gear. um were kind of left with
[05:17] this idea that he was wearing the now
[05:20] infamous um veterans shirt with the
[05:23] American flag on it and some jeans. So,
[05:25] he also said something that we had not
[05:28] heard, which is that he knows guns and
[05:32] the gun that the FBI found was not the
[05:35] gun that he saw. That the gun that he
[05:37] saw was smaller. And I'm going to read
[05:40] you directly a text message that he sent
[05:42] me again protecting his identity. Uh he
[05:46] said, "Watching the video of the impact,
[05:48] hearing the sharp crack instead of a big
[05:51] hunting rifles boom and seeing what
[05:54] looked like a shorter rifle platform,
[05:57] albeit with the absence of the shape of
[05:59] a standard 30 round magazine. The
[06:02] assassin may have used a 10 or 20 round
[06:05] magazine only expecting to shoot once or
[06:07] twice. I would guess that he was shot
[06:10] with a Hornady VMAX or similar
[06:13] lightweight 223 bullet designed for very
[06:16] rapid expansion. Of course, I don't have
[06:19] access to any autopsy reports like you
[06:21] might, but if they found small shards of
[06:24] copper rather than one large copper
[06:26] coated lead slug, that's the gun and
[06:30] bullet I would expect was used.
[06:32] >> First and foremost, this eyewitness
[06:34] claims to have seen the shot. He saw it
[06:36] fired. This means Charlie was shot from
[06:38] the front and not the rear. As many of
[06:40] you all have said who are very familiar
[06:42] with guns, this front shot, given the
[06:45] sound of the crack and lack of exit
[06:47] wound, must have fired a 223 or 22
[06:51] caliber bullet. When I saw his
[06:53] statement, I couldn't believe it because
[06:55] so many of you have been saying the
[06:57] exact same thing. You've also said just
[07:00] about unanimously that the 3006 rifle
[07:03] would have sounded different and left a
[07:06] massive exit wound. Now, what does this
[07:08] mean? I don't like how Candace or this
[07:11] guy used the term foreign agent. I think
[07:12] that's a big leap. However, take a look
[07:15] at this. Because this calls the rifle
[07:17] that the FBI recovered with the
[07:19] engravings and Tyler Robinson as the
[07:22] actual shooter into question. Given this
[07:24] and what I'm about to show you, I have
[07:26] high levels of doubt that Tyler Robinson
[07:29] is the actual shooter. Consistent with
[07:32] the eyewitness report, the shooter runs
[07:34] across the roof. And we have this
[07:36] footage of him doing that and then
[07:38] jumping down. He's holding something in
[07:40] his hand, and it would align that this
[07:42] is a smaller gun than the one that
[07:44] belongs to Robinson. He is wearing dark
[07:47] clothes. He has the backpack on, so
[07:50] laying down in the prone position on the
[07:51] roof could certainly make it look like
[07:53] he was wearing tactical gear. But it's
[07:56] these images here that are just not
[07:59] lining up for me. We were given the
[08:01] photos of the individual coming up the
[08:04] stairwell by the FBI. It would be nice
[08:07] to see that video so we can compare
[08:08] Tyler Robinson, his face and mannerisms
[08:12] to this police body cam footage that I
[08:15] have now spent hours looking at and
[08:17] analyzing. I was trying to see Tyler
[08:20] Robinson from different angles from the
[08:22] side and the back to see if I could
[08:25] match the profile that was given to us.
[08:28] Does this person look like this person?
[08:32] I put these together for you so that we
[08:34] could compare the side by sides. It's
[08:36] the lips and the chin structure that I
[08:39] just cannot get past. Look, I'm a
[08:42] reasonable person. I really feel that
[08:43] way. But I just feel like this is not
[08:46] the same person. Maybe I've been looking
[08:48] at this for too long. Let me know what
[08:50] you guys think. But if the gun is in
[08:53] question, Robinson is in question. And
[08:55] that has very important implications.
[08:57] That could mean could that the whole
[09:00] transgender engravings and anti-fascist
[09:02] narrative isn't true. That could be a
[09:06] distraction from what? I don't know. But
[09:09] I've seen others say that questioning
[09:11] these things is divisive and it stains
[09:14] the memory of Charlie. Like Charlie said
[09:16] about Trump's assassination attempt, he
[09:19] wanted to get to the bottom of every
[09:21] single little detail. I think he'd want
[09:24] the same here if it were anyone else
[09:26] that this happened to. You know what's
[09:27] divisive? The narrative that left-wing
[09:30] rhetoric incited a violent trans
[09:32] terrorist to assassinate a conservative
[09:35] leader. What if Tyler Robinson's gun
[09:37] wasn't actually the gun used and he
[09:40] didn't take the shot? The conspiracies
[09:43] that so many say shouldn't be talked
[09:46] about are simply trying to tie up loose
[09:48] ends and get questions answered that
[09:51] haven't been. Does honoring Charlie's
[09:53] legacy mean being a sheep who believes
[09:56] everything the government tells us? No,
[09:59] thank you. How has that worked out the
[10:01] past 5 years? I'm Zach Costello.
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