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Zach Costello Reveals New Evidence Challenging Official Tyler Robinson Narrative in Charlie Kirk Case
Zach Costello examines new revelations from Candace Owens that challenge the official narrative surrounding Tyler Robinson and the Charlie Kirk shooting. According to Owens, Robinson's family does not believe Tyler committed the crime, he never confessed, and they've been placed in witness protection. Costello analyzes edited FBI video footage, explores Dr. Chris Martinson's ballistic analysis showing evidence of a high-speed cavitation event, and examines discrepancies in the stairwell photos. With the judge announcing the trial will be public and Robinson appearing in person, questions about what really happened at UVU campus continue to mount. Multiple pieces of evidence suggest the official story may not be the complete picture.
Family Does Not Believe Tyler Robinson Is Guilty
The narrative surrounding Tyler Robinson's arrest has been significantly challenged by new information revealed by Candace Owens. According to the official story, Tyler Robinson's mother recognized him from FBI-released photos of an individual in the stairwell at UVU. His mother allegedly told his father, who then called Tyler, talking him out of ending his own life. They then consulted with a family friend in law enforcement who helped convince Tyler to turn himself in peacefully.
What Candace Owens reveals flips that narrative completely. According to Owens, Robinson's parents do not believe their son committed this crime. This stands in stark contrast to what the media has been reporting. The media presented a story where the father realized his son was guilty and phoned a friend to help convince Tyler to turn himself in because this mysterious individual had a connection with Tyler and they eventually told him to do the right thing.
Owens reports that it was actually the opposite. The family friend, who was a former detective with strong ties to the police station, informed the family that Tyler had been identified as the shooter. He recognized Tyler, knows him personally, and gave the family a heads up. The way Robinson got arrested was because that family friend, neighbor, and former detective told him it was best to turn himself in because there were only two options: either turn himself in peacefully or have the SWAT team come in and arrest him, which could get chaotic.
According to Owens' source, the former detective went to the Robinson house, Tyler was called over, and Tyler was bewildered. He disputed the idea that he had murdered Charlie Kirk. In fact, according to the source, Tyler has never even stepped foot on UVU campus. The family says that the photo of the young man coming up the stairs, the blurry image that was shared publicly, is definitively not Tyler Robinson.
The Stairwell Photo Does Not Match Tyler Robinson
Candace Owens makes a compelling point about the stairwell photo that many observers have noticed. The face looks different, more narrow than Tyler Robinson's face. The person in the photo also looks taller than Tyler Robinson. Tyler Robinson appears to have full lips, but even though the image is blurry, the person in the stairwell does not appear to have fuller lips. Tyler Robinson also looks broader than the individual walking up the stairs.
Owens agrees that the person walking up the stairs is not Tyler Robinson and suggests the image was intentionally blurred. They never provided video footage of the person in the stairwell, only a static blurred image. In order to blur the image, they would have needed to use a static frame rather than video footage.
One question that remains is about the Dairy Queen photo of Tyler Robinson. If Tyler never set foot on UVU campus, what is the significance of the Dairy Queen photo showing him in the area? Many have asked about reports of a Dairy Queen closing, but this claim is not accurate. The claim was originally reported by George Webb in a video, but the location he filmed at 1545 is not in Orem, Utah. It's near the BYU campus. This video was spun into a false narrative that the Dairy Queen in Orem was closed, which it has not been. The Orem Dairy Queen location at 813 East 800 North remains open.
FBI Video Shows Signs of Editing
Video footage released by the FBI of the suspect running across the roof, jumping down, and running off campus appears to have been edited. This analysis comes from Dr. Chris Martinson in his Peak Prosperity video. The FBI video shows several bizarre anomalies that raise serious questions.
A sharp-eyed observer noticed something strange about the shadow. As the individual runs across the roof, the shadow appears and disappears inconsistently. When running on white reflective surfaces where the shadow should be strongest, there is little to no shadow visible. There are just small blips where a shadow should be clearly visible.
Additional strange elements appear in the video. You can see the individual running past windows, and those images flicker in and out. A pedestrian visible in the frame suddenly disappears. The person goes behind a tree and never emerges, as if they took a hard right turn and walked through the bushes.
All of these anomalies are visible in the original video that the FBI released. These are not artifacts from someone zooming in or analyzing the footage. These editing errors are present in the official FBI release. Why are we receiving poorly edited videos? Why doesn't the FBI release the whole video showing what happened before the individual started running across the roof? Why don't we get the full unedited 10 minutes before the shot? Why don't we get the full video of the individual walking up the stairwell so it can be properly compared to Tyler Robinson?
Evidence of High-Speed Cavitation Event
While questions remain about whether Tyler Robinson is the lone shooter, Dr. Chris Martinson's analysis does provide solid evidence that Charlie Kirk was shot by a high-speed rifle round in the neck from the front. This analysis helps debunk theories about exploding microphones, hidden guns, or shots from behind.
Dr. Martinson explains what happens when a high-speed round enters a human body, known as a high-speed cavitation event. This severe overpressure event is the same whether the round enters a human body, a deer, or ballistic gel. To demonstrate this, Martinson references footage from Lena Miculek, who carries on her father Jerry Miculek's shooting tradition. The footage shows a 300 Blackout round, which is much less energetic than the 30-06 round allegedly used, but it is still instructive.
The footage, shot with an ultra-high-speed camera running at least 10,000 frames per second, shows what happens when a bullet strikes. There is a massive temporary cavitation as all the water in the tissue has to go somewhere. All of the energy of the bullet gets dumped, creating a huge expansion. This is clear evidence that a high-energy, high-speed round entered the body and dumped all of its energy into the body.
Looking at the frame-by-frame analysis of Charlie Kirk at the moment of impact, you can see evidence of this cavitation event. The microphone and shirt are barely moved at the first moment of impact. The body is just beginning to expand and pull. Because the body puffed and pulled with that cavitation event, that is what threw the shirt and grabbed the lapel microphone as part of the shirt.
Everything that moved upward indicates that the body swelled up significantly more on the left side, which pulled the shirt in that direction. The exact frame captures the cavitation event in that first 1,000th of a second, but there hasn't been enough time to transfer that energy to see everything travel upward. You can watch the neck expand, particularly on the side where he was shot. There is a huge outward bulging from that overpressure event. That is what grabbed the shirt and threw it upward.
This analysis provides solid evidence that Charlie Kirk was shot by a high-speed rifle round in the neck from the front. It was not an exploding microphone, as you can see the mic doesn't move or explode at all. It wasn't someone from the front row with a hidden pistol, as pistols do not cause the cavitation pattern observed.
Questions About Shooter Location and Bullet Trajectory
Dr. Martinson makes the claim that because Charlie Kirk was shot by a high-speed round but there was no exit wound, the shot could not have come from where the alleged shooter was located on the Lowe's building. He claims that the only way for there not to be an exit wound is if the shot came from a different angle where the bullet could have hit the chest cavity and entered the center mass of the thoracic vertebrae.
Martinson identifies a potential shooting spot with a line of sight between two trees that comes down near where Charlie's tent was located. From this position, the measured angle would have been about 43 degrees with a 20-degree downslope angle because the building is closer. It's almost as high as the other shooting position but much further back, which lowers the angle.
At a 20-degree angle instead of 10 degrees, there's a much better chance that the round would come straight into the body. From that shooting position at a 20-degree angle, the bullet would travel much further down into the body. At this angle, you start to hit rib bones if you're off-axis, but you also start to hit the center of the spinal column. At a 43-degree angle, the first thing the bullet would encounter is the center mass of the thoracic vertebrae, possibly C7 but likely T1. Autopsy photos and X-rays would help resolve these questions, but there is now doubt that an autopsy was even performed on Charlie Kirk.
However, there is a simpler explanation for the angle question. Paramount Tactical provides an excellent counter-analysis. If someone is perfectly squared up and a line is drawn from 10 degrees to the left, it would enter on one side and exit without hitting the spinal column or vertebrae. But this analysis doesn't account for multiple variables.
If the chair is slightly offset one way or the other, if Charlie moved slightly one way or the other, based on available information, there is no way to definitively say what angle Charlie's body position was in relation to the shot. This completely changes everything. Whether he was bending over, moving his shoulders one way or another, these small movements matter. In relation to the chair, even if he was looking straight ahead, we don't know if that chair was set slightly in any direction. When talking about such a small angular difference, these variables must be checked before coming up with any definitive answer.
The turn of Charlie's shoulders, the angle at which the chair was set, and the fact that Charlie was moving back and forth from the table with the microphone as the shot rang out all change the angle from which the shot entered his body.
Trial Will Be Public With Robinson Appearing In Person
What is becoming clearer is that the shot was taken by a high-speed rifle and Charlie was hit in the neck from the front at a downward angle, which resulted in the bullet hitting his chest cavity and thoracic vertebrae, likely preventing an exit wound. But was it Tyler Robinson and did he act alone?
The judge in the case has announced that the entire trial will be public and Robinson will be attending in person and participating in the trial. The proceedings will be open to the public, conducted in accordance with the law, and handled with diligence and competence to ensure that justice is never compromised. It is the standing order of the court that Robinson shall be allowed to appear in person so he can fully engage with his attorneys and participate in these legal proceedings.
If what Candace Owens is saying is true, Robinson's parents should be testifying in court in public on video so everyone can see it. As the narrator notes, if his son was in this situation and being wrongfully accused, and there were entities or people threatening them to prevent them from coming out with the truth, he would risk his life to tell the truth for his son. Any good parent would understand this sentiment. Lance Twiggs, who is currently in protection, needs to testify, and we need to hear the story directly from Tyler Robinson's mouth.
The next hearing is scheduled for October 30th. The investigation continues as more questions emerge about what really happened.
Video Transcript
The family of Tyler Robinson, according
to Candace Owens, does not believe that
Tyler murdered Charlie Kirk. Tyler did
not confess to the crime, and now
they've been placed into witness
protection. There is also more video
casting doubt on what authorities gave
us in the immediate aftermath of the
shooting that you need to see. And this
comes on the heels of another theory
gaining traction by Dr. Chris Martinson
of Peak Prosperity, who claims to have
proven that Tyler Robinson could not
have taken the kill shot. A lot to get
through today. Let's get into it. I'm
Zach Costello.
Okay, so the narrative that we have been
told is that Tyler Robinson's mother
recognized him from the photos that the
FBI released of the individual in the
stairwell at UVU. His mother then told
his father, who then called Tyler,
talking him out of killing himself, and
then consulted with a family friend in
law enforcement, and they eventually
convinced Tyler to turn himself in
peacefully. What Candace Owens reveals
here flips that completely on its head.
>> Of most interest to me, what I've
learned is that his father uh does not
believe his parents don't believe that
their son committed this crime. I was
like, "Huh? Excuse me. That's a that's a
far cry from what the media has been
telling us." Remember, the media
presented this amazing story. Uh the
father realized his son was guilty. So
it goes, right? And then he phoned over
a friend to help him convince his son to
turn himself in because this guy, you
know, this this mysterious guy was a
friend and and just had a connection
with Tyler and eventually they said,
"You got to do the right thing here. We
know this is you." That was the vibe.
Certainly that's what the media was
putting down for us to pick up. Well, I
was told actually that it was kind of
the opposite.
that quote unquote family friend uh who
we learned was a former detective with
the police force um at least and so
therefore has strong ties with the
police station informed the family. It
was that in between person that informed
the family that Tyler had been
identified as the shooter. He recognized
him. He knows Tyler. He gives them the
heads up and then I'm told and I believe
this that the way in which he got
arrested or rather turned himself in was
because that family friend
slashnneighbor slash former detective
told him hey it's best for you to turn
yourself in because there's only one of
two options here. Either you turn
yourself in and everything is peaceable
or you know the SWAT team could come in
here and arrest you and things could get
crazy. So that's what happened. He went
over to their house. Tyler was called
over. Tyler was bewildered. He disputed
the idea that he had murdered Charlie
Kirk. In fact, according uh to my
source, Tyler has never even stepped
foot on UVU campus. Uh the family says
that the photo of the young man that is
coming up the stairs, which was shared,
that blurry image, is definitively not
Tyler Robinson. And let me just say, I
never thought it looked like him.
Neither did you. Okay. Face looks
different. Face looks more narrow. Also,
that person looks taller. Every time I
say I'm like, "This person is taller
than Tyler Robinson. Tyler Robinson also
appears to have full lips, even though
this image is blurry. We're not looking
for someone that's got a that got fuller
lips. And Tyler Robinson looks broader
um than that individual walking." Right.
So, I I I'm on board with that person
walking up the stairs. It's not Tyler
Robinson because I feel like it was
intentionally blurred. They also never
gave us the footage at all because in
order to blur it, they probably needed a
static image.
>> This point that Candace makes here is
one that I've made many times. These
people do not look like the same person.
Fuller lips, different chin structure.
It would be really nice if we had the
video footage of him walking up these
stairs and then we could really break
that down to compare it to Tyler
Robinson. One thing I do want to note
here real quick, since Candace included
that photo in her video of Tyler
Robinson in Dairy Queen, if Tyler never
set foot on UVU campus, what is with the
Dairy Queen photo? He clearly was still
in the area. Many of you have asked me
to look into this Dairy Queen closing.
And that is not true. That claim was
originally reported by George Webb on X
in this video here.
>> Well, we're at 15:45.
1545.
Is that a Dairy Queen sign?
Interestingly enough, it is
looks like it's been totally
taken apart. Got cleaning mop buckets
everywhere and so forth. And it's right
across, by the way, from Brigham Young
University. Right across from the
stadium,
right?
So, my point is there's the football
stadium.
There's cameras all over here. The FBI
should be able to easily say what the
path was for
Robinson to get to the airport or the
Dodge Challenger.
Should be flocks all along here. All
right. So, this 1545 location is not in
Oram, Utah. It's near the BYU campus as
you can see in that video. So, this
video was taken and spun into the
narrative that the Dairy Queen in Oram
was closed, which it has not. Google
Maps right here from the Los building
where the alleged shot was taken to the
address of that Oram location is 813
East 800 North and this location is
open. Now, a video that we have been
given that contributes to the current
narrative. Remember the video of the
suspect running across the roof, jumping
down and running off campus that was
given to us in the immediate aftermath
of the shooting? Well, it looks like it
has been edited. This is from the Dr.
Chris Martinson peak prosperity video,
which introduces the Tyler Robinson
could not have made the shot theory that
we'll get to in a minute. But look at
what was done to the FBI video of the
alleged shooter running across the roof
and jumping down. So, what's so weird
about this? Well, a they didn't show us
all the earlier stuff. It gets even
weirder than that. Watch this. Somebody
sharpeyed caught this and said, um, at
dogs versus world, check this out.
Watch the shadow. Where's his shadow?
What happened to the shadow? They put
their dog rooftop. Look. Shadow. Shadow.
Blip. A little blip of Where's the
shadow? He's He's running on white
stuff. Should be a stronger shadow.
Watch this. Little blip on the on the
white stuff. clip. Where's the shadow?
So, they released an edited video and
look, watch here. See all those? He's We
can see him running past through those
windows. I told you there were windows
through and through. Look, they just go
look.
What is going on here? Why Why are we
getting poorly edited videos? Look,
there's a pedestrian over here that just
uh they just disappear.
And you can see all of this in the video
that the FBI released. These are all
these aren't artifacts from this this
person zooming in. Like this is you can
watch all that here. Let's watch it
together on the original video that the
FBI released. So now that you know what
to look for, watch the shadow. This is
in real time. This is what they
released. Nothing fancy. I just pulled
this down. You can sort of see them
through there. But again, those things
waiver. Shadow. Shadow. Shadow. No
shadow on the white stuff. No shadow on
the on the most highly reflective
surface.
Weird. Watch the pedestrian disappears.
goes behind the tree. I guess they took
a hard right and went through the bushes
and decided to walk. Anyway, totally
bizarre. We have multiple angles of the
individual on the roof. One from the
side right before the shot was taken.
Another from the building behind Charlie
Kirk, but this is bizarre and just
contributes to more things not adding up
when it comes to this investigation. Why
don't we get the whole video here? Why
does the video start with him running
across the roof? Like let's see the full
unedited 10 minutes before the shot.
Again, let's see the full video of the
individual walking up the stairwell so
we can compare it to Tyler Robinson. Do
I think Tyler is totally innocent?
Candace says the family says Tyler never
stepped foot on UVU campus, but he
clearly was around the campus as proven
by the Dairy Queen photo and his family
heirloom rifle being found at the scene.
What were you doing there, Tyler? and
who else were you with? The lone shooter
narrative is just not adding up for me.
That being said, it is becoming clearer
and clearer that Charlie was in fact
shot in the front by a high-speed
bullet. While I believe Dr. Chris
Martinson's conclusion about a second
shooter location here is faulty as
backed up by Paramount Tactical. As
you'll see in a second, his analysis
does do a good job in debunking the
exploding mic, any hidden gun or the
shot from behind theories. What he
explains here is a high-speed cavitation
event, which is what happens when a
high-speed round enters a body. Watch
this. And this is evidence of what we
call a high-speed cavitation event.
Severe over pressure. This is what
happens when a high-speed round enters a
human body, a deer, ballistic gel. All
it's all the same. And so this
cavitation event is what we're going to
discuss here. So before we go there,
let's talk about what that is. uh some
of my favorite shooters out there. Uh
the Mitchel's uh Lena Mitchel carrying
on in her father's um Jerry Mitchel's
incredible tradition. Anyway, here they
are shooting um this is a much less
energetic round than the 300 6. This is
called a 300 Blackout. They're shooting
the 300 Blackout. So, what you're about
to see is an energetic event that is
less violent than what would happen if
even the lightest 300 6 round was used,
but it still is very instructive. And
they did great job shooting this with an
ultra high-speed camera. And it looks
like this.
That's what happens when a bullet Oh,
you see that flash of the light from the
um from the recovery when it collapses
back on itself. Let's watch that again.
Bullet is fired. Boom. Okay. Now, this
they have a camera here running at at
least 10,000 frames per second. I think
this one's actually operating probably
at um a lot higher rate, but that's what
it looks like when a bullet strikes.
All that water has to go somewhere.
That's called that's a temporary
cavitation. You get this huge expansion
because all of the energy of the bullet
has to be dumped somewhere.
This is full evidence that he um that he
had uh a high energy uh um a high-speed
round entered his body and dumped all of
its energy into his body. So, this is an
important clue because it tells us a lot
about where the shooter must have been
and it wasn't where Tyler Robinson was.
Can't have been. It just doesn't doesn't
pan out. By the way, people saying that
this is his mic that it exploded in
almost all the other things. You see
this mic in all the shirt moving
violently up into Charlie's left, our
right. You can see here at the moment of
first impact, it's hardly moved at all
yet. Right? Why is that? Well, because
his body is just now expanding and
pulling, and because his body puffed and
pulled with that cavitation event,
that's what actually threw his shirt,
grabbed the lapel mic as part of the
shirt. All of that stuff that we saw
where everything threw up tells me that
his body swelled up a lot more on the
left side where it pulled the shirt up
that direction. But this magic shot
right here, this exact frame rate caught
it at exactly this moment where we see
the cavitation event, that first 1,000th
of a second, but it hasn't been enough
time to transfer that energy to see all
of this stuff travel up this way. So, it
answers a whole lot of questions for us.
So, I just put together a little clip
here. We're going to watch back and
forth so you can watch this event enough
times to maybe settle it in your head as
well. Before, after.
Before,
after. Just pick a spot to to look at.
Maybe this side. And just watch watch
the neck
expand. Watch the neck expand.
Particularly here where he was shot on
this side. You can see there's a huge
out bulging right here from that over
pressure event. That's what grabbed the
shirt and threw it. That's why
everything travels up that direction.
That is what a severe over pressure
cavitation event looks like.
>> This analysis is solid evidence that
Charlie Kirk was in fact shot by a
high-speed rifle round in the neck from
the front. It was not an exploding mic,
which you can see the mic doesn't move
or explode at all. It wasn't someone
from the front row with a hidden pistol.
Those do not cause the cavitation that
we just saw. However, and you heard it
from that clip, he makes the claim that
because Charlie Kirk was in fact shot by
a high-speed round, it could not have
been where the alleged shooter was
located on the Lowe's building because
there was no exit wound. And this is
important because I've said this before.
He claims that the only way for there
not to be an exit wound is that the shot
must have come from a different angle
where the bullet could have hit the
chest cavity and entered center mass of
the thoracic vertebrae. Watch this.
There is a shooting angle that's uh
right through the between these two
trees. Comes right down the waterfall.
And again, that waterfall would have
pointed right at Charlie's tent. So,
this is a potential shooting spot here.
And guess what? If you're in that spot,
the measured angle is that would have
come in at about 43° and it's a 20°
downslope angle because the building is
closer. It's almost as high as the other
shooting position, but that's much
further back. So, that lowers the angle.
And so, those are the those are the
measurements. We got about a 43° offaxis
angle. 43°, you know, come coming in 43
instead of not 9, 43. And also 20°.
Yeah, let's put it this way. 20° instead
of 10. Now we're now we're at an angle
where there's a chance that thing's
going to come and come straight into the
body. Now it really honestly has a
chance of of doing that from that
shooting position. So that's where I
would have looked at a 20° angle here.
This puts it, as you can see here, this
is set at 20°. Now this thing's coming
much further down into the body. And as
well, um, once you're at a 20 degree
angle, you start to hit these these
bones guaranteed, uh, the rib bones if
you're off axis, but also you start to
hit the center of the spinal column. And
at a 43° angle, that puts that bullet
coming in, first thing it's going to
encounter is the center mass of the
thoracic
um, vertebrae. If it's gone that low,
maybe C7, but I think it might have hit
T1. Best guess, of course, some autopsy
photos. um and some X-rays would help us
resolve all of this pronto and we don't
have access to any of that yet.
>> There's no question that an autopsy
would help us answer these questions,
but now there's doubt that one was even
done on Charlie Kirk. That being said,
while I think Dr. Martinson's analysis
does a great job in helping us clear
some of the other theories off the
table, I do not agree with the
conclusion here that the shot must have
come from a different place. There is a
much simpler explanation for the angle
he is accounting for. Paramount Tactical
does a great job explaining that here.
So, if I'm perfectly squared up and
staring at you, the camera, and we draw
a line from 10° from my left, it would
enter here and would come out and we
would miss my spinal column and my
vertebrae al together. I don't
necessarily disagree with that, but what
it doesn't account for is this or this
or many other things. Again, if this
chair is slightly offset one way or the
other, if he moves slightly one way or
the other, and based on the information
that we have, we have no way to
definitively say what angle Charlie's
body position was in relation to the
shot. That completely changes
everything. Whether he's bending over,
whether he's moving his shoulders this
way, moving the shoulders this way. You
might say, well, in relation to the
chair, he was looking straight ahead. We
don't know if that chair was set
slightly this way, this way, this way,
this way. And when we're talking about
such a small angular difference, like
you got to have those you got to have
those variables checked before you can
come up with some sort of definitive
answer. The turn of Charlie's shoulders,
the angle at which the chair was set.
Charlie was moving back and forth from
the table with the microphone as the
shot rang out. All of these little
movements change the angle from which
the shot entered his body. What is
becoming clearer and clearer though is
that the shot was taken by a high-speed
rifle and Charlie was hit in the neck
from the front at a downward angle which
which resulted in the bullet hitting his
chest cavity and thoracic vertebrae
likely preventing an exit wound. But was
it Tyler Robinson and did he act alone?
Luckily for us, the judge in the case
has announced that the entire trial will
be public and Robinson will be attending
in person and participating in the
trial.
>> These proceedings will be open to the
public, conducted in accordance with the
law and handled with diligence and
competence to ensure that justice is
never compromised. It is the standing
order of this court that Mr. Robinson
shall be allowed to appear in person so
he can fully engage with his attorneys
and participate in these legal
proceedings. If what Candace Owens is
saying is true, his parents should be
testifying in court in public on video
so we can all see it. I said this to my
wife last night. If, god forbid, my son
was in this situation and he was being
wrongfully accused, which is what's
being floated here and there were
entities or people that were threatening
us to come out with the truth, I'm
dying. If my life's in danger, I'm dying
for my son. I'm telling the truth. Any
good parent obviously knows what I'm
talking about. I expect Lance Twigs, who
is currently laying low in protection,
to testify, and we need to hear the
story from Tyler Robinson right out of
his mouth. The next hearing is scheduled
for October 30th. We'll be waiting and
we'll be continuing to dig in the
meantime. I'm Zach Costello.