High-powered rifle recovered amid manhunt for Charlie Kirk's killer, FBI says

[Wicked Blue]

Source: ABC

The FBI said it has recovered what is believed to be the weapon used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, the founder of the conservative youth activist organization Turning Point USA, during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

A "high-powered bolt action rifle,” which officials believe was the weapon used in the shooting, was recovered in a wooded area near where the shooting took place, according to Salt Lake City FBI Special Agent Robert Bohls.

The manhunt for the suspect, who is believed to be college-aged, continues, with officials working "around the clock" to locate the individual, officials said during a press conference on Thursday.

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Officials said they have been able to track the movements of the shooter and have "good" video footage of the individual, Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Beau Mason said on Thursday. The video footage will not be released to the public at this time, Mason said.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/charlie-kirk-shooting-fbi-appeals-tips-manhunt-continues/story?id=125469211

[IronLionZion]

1. Good guy with a gun can't do much when it's a rooftop sniper

Regardless, the NRA and GOP solution will be more guns.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. "believed to be college aged"

What a strange age descriptor.

[LiberalArkie]

7. That just means someone between 14 and 95 really. But the main thing is that it is someone who wants to learn something.

[thesquanderer]

9. Of course people of all ages can attend college, but typically "college aged" would be around 18-25.

It's not a meaningless phrase. Most people who go to college go at that age.

[Miguelito Loveless]

10. I remember a local news article decades ago

in my home town which was looking into the suspected arson of an outbuilding. The reporter described evidence at the scene as tracks "made sneakers of a size worn by teenagers".

[littlemissmartypants]

11. Purposefully vague. They probably don't have a clue.

Just perpetuating the distraction. Feeding the news cycle like a hungry bird.

[Cha]

22. Yeah, too bad we can't trust the FBI.

[littlemissmartypants]

23. Exactly, Cha! The irony is maddening. The damned Federal Bureau of Investigation...

For Pete's sake!!



❤️

[Cha]

24. Aloha, pants...

💙

[littlemissmartypants]

25. Aloha, Cha. 🙏❤️🪄💫👼

[usonian]

3. Individual is dangerous, may be armed, and we can't share video.

Because the suspect may be male and white.
The suspect left the gun and may have taken the cannoli.

Please do not leave coffee lying about.

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Snort

[hamsterjill]

4. To me, it sounds like they are bluffing

If they won’t release the video. Who knows.

The “college age” description doesn’t say much. People of all ages go to college.

[Prairie Gates]

5. I now think we'll have a name before the end of the day

By the weekend at the latest.

We're once again going to find out what a motivated nobody with ordinary access to average firearms can do with moderate planning skills.

[Rebl2]

6. Does anyone

think it could be someone formerly in the military? Is it possible they have already fled the country?

[LiberalArkie]

8. Probably jumped into the same car with the 2 agents giving hand signals

[littlemissmartypants]

13. The one's holding the ladder to the roof, right?

😉

[LiberalArkie]

15. That would imply that there was 1 more.. There was 2 giving hand signals at the event sight. But

If it was a coordinated attack, a fourth person (a sighter) should have been with the shooter. Maybe he pulled an extension ladder up.

But then, maybe the 2 giving hand signals were just there early for baseball season and getting some early practice in.

[littlemissmartypants]

16. Yes, maybe the 2 giving hand signals were just there early for baseball season and

were asked by the fourth person to stop a minute and steady the ladder and then resumed practicing hand signals...

While the fifth person didn't video the event.

🤭😉

[Miguelito Loveless]

14. Am I the only one who thinks it strange

that there were no EMT units on the scene for a controversial event by a high profile and incendiary speaker in today's political climate with a large group of people? Also, I read that Kirk was taken to the hospital "in a private car".

So:

- Poor security at the scene despite two different law enforcement agencies covering it.
- No EMTs despite the credible concern of an injury.
- Transporting a shooting victim by private car.
- Killed with a single shot.
- Weapon left behind.

Like Alex Jones, et all, just asking questions. I mean Charlie Kirk has been demanding the release of the Epstein Files.

(For the sarcasm impaired, I am not seriously advocating a conspiracy, just underlining how this HAS played out when it was liberals who were attacked/assassinated).

[IronLionZion]

17. EMTs should be present in any large crowded event

there can be plenty of health issues unrelated to shootings.

[Miguelito Loveless]

30. Absolutely,

heart attack, heat stroke, asthma attack, falls, and other minor/major medical issues.

Their absence is weird.

[Wicked Blue]

18. The FBI special agent for Utah was removed by Kash Patel just days before the shooting

Makes you wonder/

[tonekat]

19. Was it a Carcano Model 38?

"We found a gun" Sure you did.

[EX500rider]

32. Close, antique Mauser bolt action 30-06 nt

[Nigrum Cattus]

20. There aren't any low powered rifles

[ManiacJoe]

21. Sure there are.

Most of them are using rim-fired ammo, for example all the .22 lr rifles.
The medium powered rifles are using ammo similar to the 5.56mm and 7.68x39mm rounds.

[somsai]

29. AR and AK calibers are both considered high power for high power shooting matches

I think most things centerfire. Maybe not those things shooting handgun rounds.

[Botany]

26. The shooter is reported to have been seen with his boss. "Some people say." Fox News.

[FadedMullet]

27. The 2nd Amendment, gun humper, NRA folks will want to know the manufacturer, model, which cartridge it is......

......"chambered" for, was it a factory load or custom, if custom what was the size and weight of the bullet, what powder and how much of it, what kind of scope did he use, the actual distance from the "sniper's nest" to Kirk's pencil neck, and the type of training that the shooter had. How they reconcile all this with the "angry left-wingers are out of control" meme is going to be hard.

[dflprincess]

28. There was a high powered bolt action rifle found on the 6th floor

Of the Texas Schoolbook Depository. Also with a palm print on it.

You'd think they could be original.

[PCB66]

31. Utah is a big hunting state

I suspect that is a deer rifle. Maybe owned by his father. Of course in a state like Utah it may have been given to him on his sixth birthday.