Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / CHARLIE KIRK DEAD AT 31: SUSPECT PHOTO RELEASED, WEAPON FOUND, MASSIVE MANHUNT
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Charlie Kirk dead at thirty
- 0:09Speaker 1: one tonight, the massive manhunt for the assassin who guns
- 0:15Speaker 1: down a father of two, two botched arrests so far.
- 0:23Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to
- 0:26Speaker 1: thank you for being with us.
- 0:27Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk has been shot at Utah University.
- 0:32Speaker 3: All witnesses are reporting that all they heard was a
- 0:36Speaker 3: single shot that was fired.
- 0:38Speaker 2: He's a young man, He's thirty two years old. Charlie
- 0:40Speaker 2: Kirk was shot at a rally.
- 0:43Speaker 4: Dear Lord in Heaven.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Kirk targeted, we believe because of his beliefs, gunned down
- 0:54Speaker 1: by a sniper, a sharpshooter, an assassin surrounded by teens
- 1:04Speaker 1: and college students.
- 1:07Speaker 4: Why and who? Thank you for being with us?
- 1:13Speaker 1: In the wake, the assassin leaves behind a grieving widow,
- 1:18Speaker 1: his wife, and two little children who will grow up
- 1:23Speaker 1: without daddy.
- 1:25Speaker 4: Why? Why? Because you disagree with what he says. You
- 1:29Speaker 4: don't have to agree with what he says. This is America.
- 1:33Speaker 1: Nobody agrees with anything anybody says. Yet he got the
- 1:40Speaker 1: death penalty because you disagree. You know what Kirk would
- 1:45Speaker 1: say to people? Hey, all of you out there that
- 1:48Speaker 1: disagree with me. I want you at the front of
- 1:51Speaker 1: the line because I'm going to try to convince you you're wrong.
- 1:54Speaker 4: I don't want you to quiet yourselves. I want you
- 1:58Speaker 4: at the front of the line. I want to hear
- 2:00Speaker 4: what you have to say. But no to you. The assassin,
- 2:07Speaker 4: he had to die again.
- 2:11Speaker 1: I Nancy Grayson is his crime stories. I want to
- 2:13Speaker 1: thank you for being with us on this very very
- 2:17Speaker 1: dark night.
- 2:18Speaker 4: Listen, do you know how many transgender Americans have masshooters
- 2:22Speaker 4: over the last ten years?
- 2:24Speaker 3: Too many?
- 2:31Speaker 1: Fine?
- 2:31Speaker 4: Okay, now By's long right. I'm gonna give you any
- 2:34Speaker 4: of his credit.
- 2:34Speaker 5: Do you know how many masshooters there have been in
- 2:37Speaker 5: America over the last ten years?
- 2:39Speaker 4: Accounting or not?
- 2:40Speaker 3: Comic gang violence.
- 2:46Speaker 2: Chaos on the Utah Valley University campus has thousands of
- 2:49Speaker 2: students and locals run from Kirk's booth screaming. Kirk's security
- 2:53Speaker 2: team rushes into action, putting pressure on Kirk's wound and
- 2:56Speaker 2: escorting him to awaiting suv to take him to the hospital.
- 3:00Speaker 1: You saw originally is from at Beanie Johnson on X
- 3:04Speaker 1: and you can hear it's not Kirk asking about how
- 3:08Speaker 1: many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last
- 3:11Speaker 1: ten years. It's a student asking that question. You don't
- 3:15Speaker 1: have to agree with the student. You may violently disagree
- 3:19Speaker 1: with the student. Kirk was taken out and we will
- 3:24Speaker 1: find the shooter and he will face the death penalty,
- 3:30Speaker 1: mark my words. In the last hours, law enforcement has
- 3:34Speaker 1: released a facial shot of the perp. I want you
- 3:39Speaker 1: to look at it. We can learn a lot. There
- 3:42Speaker 1: he is walking. We've also got a shot more head on,
- 3:46Speaker 1: but look there, you go much much better.
- 3:50Speaker 4: That is him going up the stairwell.
- 3:53Speaker 1: He is wearing jeans, a baseball cat black in collar.
- 3:57Speaker 1: He's wearing tennis shoes and we know he's left behind
- 4:00Speaker 1: a foot impression. By the time we see him, he
- 4:06Speaker 1: looks as if he is clad all in black.
- 4:08Speaker 4: Maid.
- 4:08Speaker 1: This is him making his way up the steps. What
- 4:12Speaker 1: can we learn? We already knew that it was released.
- 4:16Speaker 1: He was college age. Here he is clean shaven, college
- 4:21Speaker 1: age man. Do you really think your sunglasses are going
- 4:24Speaker 1: to trick l e, the fads, the locals, the works,
- 4:29Speaker 1: good luck and a couple of days they're going to
- 4:32Speaker 1: know where you bought those sunglasses and what you signed
- 4:35Speaker 1: on the credit card slip what can.
- 4:37Speaker 4: We learn about this guy?
- 4:38Speaker 1: White, male, college age, slight in build.
- 4:42Speaker 4: Joining me right now.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Forensics expert and Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Joseph
- 4:47Speaker 1: Scott Morgan, Joe.
- 4:49Speaker 4: Scott, I can glean a lot. Let's see the picture again.
- 4:52Speaker 4: I want everybody to see this. There is currently a
- 4:54Speaker 4: one hundred.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Thousand dollars reward on this guy. This guy, Okay, Joe Scott.
- 5:01Speaker 1: It looks like he drove away from mommy and Daddy's
- 5:04Speaker 1: house in the suburbs and he decided to shoot somebody dead.
- 5:08Speaker 1: Does he actually have his wallet in his front right pocket?
- 5:12Speaker 1: I see a mark on his jeans that tells me
- 5:15Speaker 1: that's how he usually carries it. In a moment, I'm
- 5:18Speaker 1: going to figure out what kind of tennishoes he's wearing.
- 5:19Speaker 1: But you see the American fly with a gun on it.
- 5:23Speaker 1: I'm learning so much right now. Okay, what do you see,
- 5:26Speaker 1: Joe Scott?
- 5:27Speaker 3: Well, I see that he has unngloved hands, Nancy, and
- 5:31Speaker 3: it looks like in the other shot, it looks like
- 5:34Speaker 3: he may be making an effort to grab hold of
- 5:36Speaker 3: that rail. Guess what if you do that.
- 5:39Speaker 4: With his forearm? Though? Look, look well, well, yeah, but.
- 5:42Speaker 3: How do we know How do we know that he
- 5:44Speaker 3: didn't touch any of the surfaces along the way Lacart's principle,
- 5:48Speaker 3: every contact leaves a trace. You cannot be this perfect,
- 5:52Speaker 3: all right, So up there, there's going to be information
- 5:56Speaker 3: that will tie him back. I think biological information. We
- 6:00Speaker 3: already have evidence that there may in fact have been
- 6:03Speaker 3: a palm print left behind. You had mentioned a footprint.
- 6:07Speaker 3: And also if the reports are true and we're hearing
- 6:10Speaker 3: about this weapon that may have been recovered, this is
- 6:14Speaker 3: going to be a specific tie back to him, Nancy,
- 6:17Speaker 3: just based upon the process of purchasing one serial number
- 6:21Speaker 3: that's on here, any kind of add ons that may
- 6:23Speaker 3: be found on this weapon, I'm thinking, like scopes and
- 6:26Speaker 3: oh boy, the ammunition we've got from what they are saying,
- 6:32Speaker 3: we have a spent round that's still chambered. Because this
- 6:36Speaker 3: weapon is a bolt action, that means you have to
- 6:38Speaker 3: actuate the bolt itself, lift it up, pull it back,
- 6:43Speaker 3: that ejects it. This is not a semi automatic weapon,
- 6:46Speaker 3: and then you force another round. In Nancy, he never
- 6:49Speaker 3: ejected the round, according to what FBI sources are saying.
- 6:53Speaker 3: And there are still three other live rounds in the
- 6:57Speaker 3: internal magazine of this weapon, and all of them are
- 7:01Speaker 3: going to have little bits that are going to be
- 7:04Speaker 3: offered up relative to connectivity back to this potent, this
- 7:08Speaker 3: person potentially.
- 7:09Speaker 1: Straight out to Dave Mack joining us investigated reporter crime
- 7:12Speaker 1: stories on the case from the very moment it happened.
- 7:16Speaker 1: Dave matt what happened.
- 7:17Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk is on campus Nancy to do one of
- 7:20Speaker 2: his events where he speaks to students and talks about
- 7:23Speaker 2: all things.
- 7:24Speaker 4: I mean, everything's on the table.
- 7:26Speaker 2: And in the moments before you right before you see
- 7:29Speaker 2: him in the ten there, right before that, he was
- 7:31Speaker 2: actually throwing hats to the crowd. You got about three
- 7:34Speaker 2: thousand people there. He's throwing hats and talking to people.
- 7:36Speaker 2: And before he actually was going to give his speech,
- 7:40Speaker 2: he actually opened up microphones for young people to come
- 7:43Speaker 2: to the front and start and ask questions.
- 7:45Speaker 4: It was kind of a warm up.
- 7:47Speaker 2: And he was in the about a minute minute fifteen
- 7:49Speaker 2: seconds into actually sitting where he's right there when the
- 7:54Speaker 2: shot hit And because everybody's got a phone, this was
- 7:58Speaker 2: immediately uploaded now and see people from everywhere could see
- 8:02Speaker 2: there was a shot that hit him in the neck.
- 8:04Speaker 2: Now you see everybody scrambling at first. Well that didn't
- 8:07Speaker 2: last but for a minute, because people realize, wait a minute,
- 8:10Speaker 2: I only heard one shot and then everything claim.
- 8:12Speaker 4: Yeah, the way you got to me drinking from the
- 8:14Speaker 4: higher fire hygien. It's too much, too fast.
- 8:16Speaker 1: I want to take every single fact as it happens.
- 8:19Speaker 1: Joining me and all Star Pound makes sense of what
- 8:21Speaker 1: we know right now. The massive manhunt is on after
- 8:25Speaker 1: two botched FBI arrests. Hold on, you know what, I
- 8:28Speaker 1: want to clarify that I wouldn't call them botched. I
- 8:31Speaker 1: would not call them botched.
- 8:33Speaker 4: Joining me.
- 8:34Speaker 1: Katherine Schweit, creator of the FBI's Active Shooter Program, former
- 8:38Speaker 1: Chicago prosecutor, career GBI special agent, author Stop the Killing,
- 8:43Speaker 1: How to End the mass shooting Crisis, and more.
- 8:47Speaker 4: Catherine.
- 8:48Speaker 1: People are saying botched FBI ras that's not correct. They
- 8:54Speaker 1: arrested persons of interest, they questioned them, and upon questioning them,
- 9:00Speaker 1: they release them. What does everybody want them to do?
- 9:03Speaker 1: Not take the persons of interest into custody?
- 9:06Speaker 4: I mean that there, it was not botched.
- 9:09Speaker 6: I agree with you. I mean I don't think that's
- 9:11Speaker 6: the right word. We want to be proceed with the
- 9:13Speaker 6: best and most cautious way that we can. We want
- 9:16Speaker 6: law enforcement to not let one person walk away from
- 9:20Speaker 6: that area until we are confident that person is not
- 9:24Speaker 6: the triggerman. It's very important that you take the time
- 9:28Speaker 6: to go through somebody's background, spend the time with them,
- 9:31Speaker 6: put them under a little pressure, see whether or not
- 9:35Speaker 6: this is the person that you need to keep.
- 9:36Speaker 1: On listen, give me you by the sounds fan report
- 9:40Speaker 1: as one and it is though that was not our
- 9:42Speaker 1: knowing where the shooter went and as the.
- 9:44Speaker 6: Advice giving you and orm has had an ask your
- 9:48Speaker 6: shooter at as Charlie Kirk event.
- 9:50Speaker 7: We're getting several calls. We're trying to get more information,
- 9:55Speaker 7: so I'm not sure yet.
- 9:56Speaker 8: We're just trying to get seeing.
- 9:58Speaker 4: This that way.
- 9:59Speaker 1: What you were hearing is the police scanner immediately after
- 10:02Speaker 1: the shooting, and what we are doing tonight is picking
- 10:05Speaker 1: through the clues left behind and trying to determine.
- 10:07Speaker 4: What we know happened.
- 10:10Speaker 1: You know, I want to go back to Dave mac
- 10:12Speaker 1: these two botched, as it's being said arrests. I agree
- 10:17Speaker 1: with Catherine Schweid to creator FBI Active Shooter program. They
- 10:21Speaker 1: were not bossed, explain exactly what happened, Dave.
- 10:24Speaker 2: As this was an evolving story. Right off the bat.
- 10:28Speaker 2: Police actually had a man about in his mid fifties,
- 10:32Speaker 2: looks like bald head, wearing glasses, blue short pants, and
- 10:37Speaker 2: he was immediately talking to police and they actually cuffed
- 10:41Speaker 2: him and had him on the ground. So again in
- 10:44Speaker 2: this world where everything has to be published for everything,
- 10:46Speaker 2: people immediately said they have the shooter arrested, and they
- 10:49Speaker 2: had pictures of this guy. I think his name's George Zenn. Well,
- 10:52Speaker 2: George Zenn actually was being confrontational with police, but he's
- 10:57Speaker 2: not the shooter, and so all those pictures that were
- 11:00Speaker 2: around the world showed it innocent a man who was
- 11:03Speaker 2: not the shooter.
- 11:03Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, the guy Zen said that
- 11:10Speaker 1: he did it. He started yelling.
- 11:12Speaker 4: That he would do it again, but the reality is he.
- 11:14Speaker 1: Didn't have a gun, and also in those tight quarters
- 11:17Speaker 1: with thousands of people, who knows what he was saying,
- 11:21Speaker 1: but he had to be taken into custody. At this hour,
- 11:24Speaker 1: we're learning a lot. Let's see the video of the
- 11:28Speaker 1: person on top of a roof scrambling away straight out
- 11:34Speaker 1: to former Army sharp shooter sniper CoA Lormer.
- 11:40Speaker 4: CoA, thank you for being with us.
- 11:41Speaker 1: I'd like you to take a look, if you can
- 11:43Speaker 1: from your monitor of what we have seen. A dark
- 11:48Speaker 1: clad figure is above the Sparks Automotive building.
- 11:56Speaker 4: That's just one of the shots.
- 11:58Speaker 1: We have of the And I'll just go ahead and
- 12:01Speaker 1: say him because statistically this is a man, observe CoA.
- 12:05Speaker 1: He is in dark clothing, clad all in dark. He
- 12:09Speaker 1: dressed up for the event. This was an event which
- 12:12Speaker 1: I'm going to get into with our other guests later,
- 12:14Speaker 1: that had been.
- 12:14Speaker 4: Planned for weeks and months.
- 12:18Speaker 1: There he is right there, there he is, and he
- 12:21Speaker 1: actually jumped off the building. Why is it significant that
- 12:25Speaker 1: we know this event had been planned for some time
- 12:28Speaker 1: because anybody following Kirk would know exactly where he was
- 12:33Speaker 1: going to be. And CoA Lorimore, he was in the
- 12:37Speaker 1: most vulnerable position at the bottom of a pit, basically
- 12:43Speaker 1: in a fish bowl with little security. But for your purposes, CoA,
- 12:49Speaker 1: I want you to explain to me how you can
- 12:53Speaker 1: get a shot. We've been told this is about two
- 12:56Speaker 1: hundred yards away for where Charlie Kirk was speaking.
- 13:02Speaker 4: How do you do that?
- 13:03Speaker 5: So, Nancy, you would want to use a high power
- 13:06Speaker 5: rifle like I have right here.
- 13:08Speaker 4: This is a both asking rifle used for precision shooting.
- 13:13Speaker 5: It has a high power scope to magnify your target
- 13:17Speaker 5: and keeps your target very clear. This would also be
- 13:20Speaker 5: someone that has experienced shooting or has been trained. You
- 13:25Speaker 5: take anybody off the street, they're not going to be
- 13:27Speaker 5: able to make a shot like this.
- 13:29Speaker 1: How unusual is it for let's just say, someone of
- 13:33Speaker 1: your caliber, a sharp shooter, a sniper trained specifically to
- 13:38Speaker 1: be a sniper. How rare is it to get off
- 13:41Speaker 1: the shot two hundred yards? Is that normal for an
- 13:44Speaker 1: army sniper or is that unique for an army sniper?
- 13:47Speaker 5: It's very normal. I think the minimum distance of our
- 13:50Speaker 5: qualifications starts at three hundred yards and goes out to
- 13:54Speaker 5: one thousand.
- 13:54Speaker 1: That was not what I was expecting you to say.
- 13:57Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be rare. But you're saying,
- 14:01Speaker 1: for an army sniper of your caliber, a two hundred
- 14:04Speaker 1: yard shot, eh?
- 14:06Speaker 4: Is that what you're saying? Yes? I don't like that.
- 14:10Speaker 1: You know why I don't like that because I thought
- 14:13Speaker 1: it would be more rare for somebody to pull off
- 14:16Speaker 1: a shot like that Cole or more. But because it's
- 14:19Speaker 1: not rare that widens my pool of suspects. Do you
- 14:22Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying? Yes, CoA all right, two hundred
- 14:27Speaker 1: yard shot. Don't you have to prepare for that? I mean,
- 14:32Speaker 1: I to believe this is the first time this guy
- 14:35Speaker 1: climbed to the top of Sparks Automotive and laid there
- 14:39Speaker 1: and tried to get the shot. I think he had
- 14:42Speaker 1: to have gone up there before to a sniper's nest
- 14:47Speaker 1: and prepare. He had to have been up there to
- 14:49Speaker 1: see where they were putting the tent. He had to
- 14:52Speaker 1: be up there beforehand. My point is surveillance video and
- 14:57Speaker 1: who was on the grounds prior to the shoe could
- 15:00Speaker 1: reveal who is the shooter. Now, CO explain to me
- 15:04Speaker 1: what you have to do to prepare to pull off
- 15:07Speaker 1: a shot like that.
- 15:08Speaker 5: Well, the shot isn't just out of luck. The shooter
- 15:11Speaker 5: obviously had prior training. He also had to conduct a
- 15:15Speaker 5: reconnaissance operation see where he was shooting right where Charlie
- 15:19Speaker 5: was going to be at. This obviously was planned. His
- 15:23Speaker 5: exit plan was also planned. So this guy didn't get lucky.
- 15:27Speaker 5: It took some very intense planning.
- 15:29Speaker 1: Which leads me to CO, don't move Dan Murphy joining me.
- 15:33Speaker 1: Former NYPD detective sergeant Joint Terrorism task former chief security
- 15:38Speaker 1: officer at US Bank Corps, and co host of gold Shields. Dan,
- 15:44Speaker 1: thank you for being with us way in on who
- 15:47Speaker 1: is this guy tonight? A man hunt for the assassin?
- 15:49Speaker 1: After two arrests already, let me just say catch and
- 15:53Speaker 1: releases of suspicious persons.
- 15:56Speaker 4: They were not deemed to be the shooter.
- 16:00Speaker 1: At the end of questioning, there's the shooter, there's the shooter.
- 16:05Speaker 4: What about it? Dan Murphy? Who is this guy?
- 16:07Speaker 7: This person knows his way around the campus, and this
- 16:09Speaker 7: person absolutely went up and did reconnaissance on top of
- 16:12Speaker 7: that roof. This person also knows where the tent that
- 16:15Speaker 7: Charlie would be speaking under would be positioned, and as
- 16:18Speaker 7: a result, positioned themselves properly. I have seen in previous
- 16:22Speaker 7: cases where people have brought duffel bags filled with goods.
- 16:25Speaker 7: This rifle may have been up on that roof already
- 16:28Speaker 7: before he walked on campus that day. This person did
- 16:31Speaker 7: their planning.
- 16:32Speaker 4: You know.
- 16:32Speaker 1: It's bringing to mind Luigi Mangioni, who planned for weeks
- 16:35Speaker 1: and weeks and weeks to gun down the CEO of
- 16:39Speaker 1: the healthcare industry. I want to follow up with what
- 16:42Speaker 1: Dan Murphy said. Dan, so you believe he had scoped
- 16:47Speaker 1: out pun he had scoped out the scene before he
- 16:50Speaker 1: knew where the tent was going to be. And what
- 16:52Speaker 1: were you saying about a Duffel bag In the past, I.
- 16:54Speaker 7: Have seen duffel bags brought up and left on rooftops
- 16:57Speaker 7: under ace, trac vents, etc. So that way the day
- 17:01Speaker 7: of the incident, they can walk up there nice and easy, unnoticed.
- 17:05Speaker 7: They're not carrying a bag. In other words, it's completely staged.
- 17:08Speaker 1: Nancy, so everything would have been there. Hold on, I
- 17:11Speaker 1: think I hear Catherine Schweit jumping in.
- 17:13Speaker 6: Go ahead, Catherine, you know, I just wanted to add
- 17:16Speaker 6: concurring with what Dan just said. You know, when the
- 17:18Speaker 6: individual shot at the President Trump in Pennsylvania, he was
- 17:23Speaker 6: a reconnaissance on the site three.
- 17:25Speaker 4: Times the day of.
- 17:27Speaker 6: Just the day of, he graveled more than a half
- 17:30Speaker 6: an hour to the site. So it's absolutely planned event,
- 17:34Speaker 6: including the reconnaissance.
- 17:36Speaker 1: Totally agree with him and Catherine CoA. Dan, that's so important,
- 17:40Speaker 1: and this is why.
- 17:42Speaker 4: Because he may have.
- 17:43Speaker 1: Left a trail on the prep sessions when he was
- 17:48Speaker 1: going up there was he con on surveillance video did
- 17:51Speaker 1: he park in a parking day where he had to
- 17:54Speaker 1: go in and.
- 17:55Speaker 4: Out where there are cameras? Who is this guy? We're
- 17:59Speaker 4: being told at this hour it is a young male.
- 18:04Speaker 4: How do they know that?
- 18:05Speaker 1: I don't know how they know that, but that is
- 18:07Speaker 1: the thinking tonight. Back to Cole Laura Moore joining us
- 18:11Speaker 1: former army sniper who put in literally thousands of hours
- 18:15Speaker 1: to become a sharpshooter.
- 18:17Speaker 4: You said, it's not just look but what about this?
- 18:20Speaker 1: Would for instance, an army sniper shoot into a crowd
- 18:25Speaker 1: of civilians, You had to be.
- 18:27Speaker 5: Very planning calculated right just to hit Charlie and not
- 18:30Speaker 5: to shoot any other armed civilians who's obviously training at
- 18:35Speaker 5: a range prior to And if you look at the
- 18:38Speaker 5: range logs, that's probably a telltale sign off who was there?
- 18:41Speaker 1: CoA brilliant, brilliant You know how a lot of sharpshooters
- 18:47Speaker 1: have been brought down by.
- 18:49Speaker 4: Doing just what you just.
- 18:50Speaker 1: Said, looking at every range, even remote ones within a
- 18:55Speaker 1: twenty five mile radius to find out who has been
- 18:59Speaker 1: practiced to saying, CoA, you're dead on. You know this
- 19:03Speaker 1: guy practiced and practiced and practiced long range shooting.
- 19:09Speaker 4: How does that work CoA.
- 19:10Speaker 5: You practice laundry shooting by shooting different environment types, taking
- 19:15Speaker 5: the wind into account. You just have to have time
- 19:20Speaker 5: and a lot of rounds downrange.
- 19:21Speaker 1: I'm also wondering what we know at this hour. To
- 19:25Speaker 1: Dave Matt, Crime Stories investigative reporter, what can you tell
- 19:29Speaker 1: me about the discovery of the murder weapon?
- 19:32Speaker 2: Directly behind that building, Nancy is a parking area that's
- 19:37Speaker 2: open to everybody, and adjacent to that is a wooded area.
- 19:43Speaker 2: That's where they found the bolt action rifle in the
- 19:47Speaker 2: tree area.
- 19:48Speaker 1: What do you mean the bolt action rifle in the
- 19:50Speaker 1: in the tree area?
- 19:53Speaker 2: Is creating the way to say, no, it was on
- 19:56Speaker 2: the ground, But I'm starting to say that it wasn't
- 19:58Speaker 2: like on cement in a bag sitting up for everybody.
- 20:01Speaker 2: It was actually placed in an area where it wasn't
- 20:06Speaker 2: sitting out in the open, but they were able to find.
- 20:08Speaker 4: It quickly enough.
- 20:10Speaker 2: I say bolt action because that's what it has been described.
- 20:13Speaker 1: As crime stores with Nancy Grace, do you co explain
- 20:26Speaker 1: what is a bolt action weapon?
- 20:28Speaker 5: This right here, Nancy, is an example of a bolt
- 20:31Speaker 5: action weapon. This itself is the bolt action. It open
- 20:34Speaker 5: and closes, so every time you shoot, you have to
- 20:38Speaker 5: chamber another round. This is an example of one of
- 20:42Speaker 5: the rounds that the shooter could have been. This is
- 20:46Speaker 5: a three zero eight and it's one of the most
- 20:48Speaker 5: common rounds.
- 20:49Speaker 1: It's just wait a minute, hold on, I've got to
- 20:53Speaker 1: look at that.
- 20:54Speaker 4: Zoom in on him.
- 20:56Speaker 1: That is the type of bullet that went through Charlie's neck.
- 21:05Speaker 1: That is a type of bullet that killed Charlie Kirk.
- 21:10Speaker 4: Look at that.
- 21:13Speaker 1: This s ob has got to be caught and put
- 21:17Speaker 1: on trial.
- 21:18Speaker 4: What explain to me what type of ballistic is that?
- 21:21Speaker 4: What type of bullet is that? KOA, This is a
- 21:25Speaker 4: three oh eight.
- 21:26Speaker 5: It's normally used for the army uses its takedown enemy personnel.
- 21:30Speaker 5: It's also used for hunting large game such as deer,
- 21:34Speaker 5: black bear, and wild hogs.
- 21:36Speaker 7: So do you know how many transgender Americans have mashooters
- 21:39Speaker 7: over the last ten years?
- 21:41Speaker 3: Too many?
- 21:48Speaker 9: Fine?
- 21:49Speaker 10: Okay, now by is a lot, right, I'm gonna.
- 21:50Speaker 4: Give you any of his credit. Do you know do
- 21:52Speaker 4: you know how many mashooners there have been in America
- 21:55Speaker 4: over the last.
- 21:55Speaker 5: Ten years, accounting or not counting gang violence.
- 22:05Speaker 10: He reached out to his neck and blood was starting
- 22:07Speaker 10: to gutshot.
- 22:08Speaker 3: Of his neck.
- 22:08Speaker 2: It's about two minutes in when the shot was fired,
- 22:12Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk's neck violently snapping back after the shot rang out.
- 22:16Speaker 1: What we believe to be the murder weapon has been
- 22:20Speaker 1: found in a would area not far from the shooting
- 22:23Speaker 1: of thirty one year old Charlie Kirk, the assassin leaving
- 22:29Speaker 1: his wife without a husband and his two young children
- 22:33Speaker 1: without a father.
- 22:35Speaker 4: Why we also.
- 22:38Speaker 1: Know that the bullet has been recovered, so we are
- 22:43Speaker 1: told now is the weapon left behind the weapon?
- 22:47Speaker 4: Is it a fake? Is a red herring? We can
- 22:51Speaker 4: determine that.
- 22:52Speaker 1: Very very easily, providing we have the bullet. Dan Murphy
- 22:58Speaker 1: joining me form my NYPD Detective Sergeant Joint Terrorism Task
- 23:02Speaker 1: Force Dan. A ballistics test is easy to run to
- 23:07Speaker 1: determine if the bullet that killed Charlie Kirk came from
- 23:11Speaker 1: that weapon or is the weapon a red herring? In
- 23:15Speaker 1: a nutshell, explain how that test will be done.
- 23:19Speaker 7: These tests had done very commonly across America anytime a
- 23:23Speaker 7: weapon is recovered to determine whether or not the rounds
- 23:25Speaker 7: found that a scene of a crime can match a weapon.
- 23:28Speaker 7: This is done through the art of ballistics, which is
- 23:29Speaker 7: looking at the various ways that the bullet itself has
- 23:33Speaker 7: changed during the course of its movements up to it,
- 23:36Speaker 7: including hitting bone, et cetera. But that bullet can be
- 23:40Speaker 7: traced back to the boring inside a rifle, and it
- 23:43Speaker 7: can be definitively set in court. This round was fired
- 23:47Speaker 7: from this rifle or this handgun, and that's what's going
- 23:50Speaker 7: to happen in this case.
- 23:51Speaker 1: As it works, the murder weapon will be shot. You
- 23:57Speaker 1: will sheet from the murder weapon into let's just say
- 24:01Speaker 1: a tub of water or into a mattress. As a
- 24:04Speaker 1: clean bullet hurdles down the barrel of what we believe
- 24:08Speaker 1: to be the murder weapon, the inside of the barrel
- 24:12Speaker 1: is unique.
- 24:13Speaker 4: It's like a fingerprint.
- 24:14Speaker 1: Why because as the gun was made, the metal cooled
- 24:20Speaker 1: in a certain fashion, with little dots and ridges and
- 24:24Speaker 1: imperfections on the inside of the barrel that you can't see.
- 24:27Speaker 1: And as the bullet hurdles down that barrel, it hits
- 24:32Speaker 1: up against those imperfections, leaving what we call a striation mark,
- 24:39Speaker 1: which is peculiar to that weapon. Only no other weapon
- 24:44Speaker 1: will create those striation marks or scratches.
- 24:47Speaker 4: That's an easy way.
- 24:49Speaker 1: Then you take the bullet that you just fired the
- 24:51Speaker 1: nun bullet and you compare it to the bullet found
- 24:54Speaker 1: in the scene, and you look at them under a microscope,
- 24:57Speaker 1: and you compare this striation marks on the bullet and
- 25:02Speaker 1: they will match if that's the murder weapon or did
- 25:06Speaker 1: the shooter or someone else leave a red herring. We
- 25:12Speaker 1: also know a foot print was found straight out to
- 25:18Speaker 1: Greg Morris, joining US high profile defense attorney from Morse's
- 25:22Speaker 1: legal author of the untested on Amazon, Greg Footprints, you
- 25:28Speaker 1: have to make a cast of the footprint to me,
- 25:33Speaker 1: depending on the surface on which you find the footprint.
- 25:37Speaker 1: Depending on the surface, footprints can be very very probative.
- 25:45Speaker 1: Now this is out in a wooded area. We think
- 25:47Speaker 1: it's where the footprint was found. Hey wait a minute, Morse,
- 25:50Speaker 1: what if the footprint was found where the perp jumped
- 25:53Speaker 1: down off the building. That would be a lot easier
- 25:57Speaker 1: to test than a footprint.
- 25:58Speaker 4: Made on so earth.
- 26:01Speaker 1: See what I mean, the footprint Just think of you.
- 26:04Speaker 1: Let's see, I don't know what kind of tint of
- 26:06Speaker 1: s shee you wear. Let's just say you wear Brooks, okay,
- 26:09Speaker 1: and you walk through the mud and you then walk
- 26:13Speaker 1: on your kitchen floor. The mud leaves a direct imprint
- 26:17Speaker 1: of your shoe, even telling me your shoe size, whether
- 26:23Speaker 1: you walk pigeon, toad, slue footed bear in on the
- 26:27Speaker 1: inside or the outside, it tells me a lot. Right,
- 26:31Speaker 1: So if they got this footprint where he jumped down,
- 26:36Speaker 1: I may get a lot. If it's on soft terrain
- 26:39Speaker 1: like around the tree in pine straw.
- 26:41Speaker 4: Or malleable earth, not so much.
- 26:44Speaker 1: But they're saying they got a footprint, right, What can
- 26:47Speaker 1: you do with that?
- 26:48Speaker 4: Morse?
- 26:48Speaker 11: Well, it's for you know, potentially circumstantial, because you have
- 26:52Speaker 11: to arrest the assassin with the shoes on that made
- 26:55Speaker 11: the footprint and link them to him.
- 26:57Speaker 4: Nada. You can find the shoes in his car, in
- 27:00Speaker 4: his trot, in his.
- 27:01Speaker 1: Home, abandon anything, and once I get the shoes out
- 27:05Speaker 1: of a dumpster, the DNA off of it.
- 27:08Speaker 4: Hello, thank man.
- 27:09Speaker 11: You're you're one hundred percent right, which also waters down
- 27:13Speaker 11: the evidentiary value of that.
- 27:16Speaker 4: But you're right.
- 27:16Speaker 11: They can find the sneaker in the house, they can
- 27:18Speaker 11: find it anywhere. It doesn't have to be on his feet.
- 27:20Speaker 11: But what that's going to do as the police, you know,
- 27:23Speaker 11: police are reactionary, right, They are putting this together piece
- 27:27Speaker 11: by piece, and then they'll see how that fits in
- 27:30Speaker 11: if potentially a prosecutor someone's alive, they arrest them, charge
- 27:34Speaker 11: them to see how that.
- 27:35Speaker 4: Fits in with regard to this.
- 27:38Speaker 11: But I think there's a bigger point here, which is
- 27:42Speaker 11: this person was dressed in all black walking around a campus.
- 27:47Speaker 11: I looked at the weather in Utah yesterday. You see
- 27:49Speaker 11: most people are in T shirts. It was in the
- 27:51Speaker 11: low eighties, high seventies. It is beyond belief to me
- 27:55Speaker 11: that a person, a human, any human on that campus
- 27:59Speaker 11: didn't notice this. This is so out of character.
- 28:04Speaker 1: This guy was not walking around campus getting a diet
- 28:09Speaker 1: coke at the student union. This guy remained hidden and
- 28:13Speaker 1: he snuck to the building, went straight to the top.
- 28:16Speaker 1: For all I know, he was up there two days ago.
- 28:18Speaker 4: I don't know how long he's been up there. He
- 28:20Speaker 4: was not disagreement Hawaiian T shirt. No, but he's walked through.
- 28:24Speaker 4: He didn't just peer out of the sky. So I
- 28:26Speaker 4: think that's you know, me through. But I doubt he
- 28:29Speaker 4: walked through dressed like a ninja.
- 28:31Speaker 11: Well, it doesn't look like from the photos that you
- 28:35Speaker 11: know he's getting dressed up there. That's not normal.
- 28:37Speaker 4: Maybe he did, Maybe he didn't. But you're adding facts
- 28:42Speaker 4: that don't make much sense of cases.
- 28:46Speaker 1: And I'm wondering why right now he did not he
- 28:51Speaker 1: dressed like a ninja with a face mask on. He's
- 28:54Speaker 1: snuck up there, or he's been up there for overnight
- 28:58Speaker 1: for all I know.
- 29:00Speaker 4: But granted, yes, he stuck out like a sore thumb.
- 29:02Speaker 1: Ain't you just gave me another Ideatically he discarded that
- 29:06Speaker 1: face mask.
- 29:07Speaker 4: You know there's hair in it? Right?
- 29:09Speaker 1: If I could just get part of that get up
- 29:11Speaker 1: he's wearing, guys, In the last hours, a press release.
- 29:14Speaker 1: A press release occurred, and we learned that investigators.
- 29:17Speaker 4: Have other evidence as well. Everybody listen.
- 29:20Speaker 1: They have not only a foot wear impression footprint.
- 29:25Speaker 4: But they also have a palm print.
- 29:29Speaker 1: The evidence includes a palm print and a four arm
- 29:35Speaker 1: m print.
- 29:36Speaker 4: Where did they get it? They? Did they get it
- 29:39Speaker 4: off the roof? Dan Murphy?
- 29:42Speaker 1: How difficult is it to get fingerprints off the surface
- 29:46Speaker 1: of a roof? And if this shooter did what Cole
- 29:48Speaker 1: Lormore says he did, he had a sniper's nest up
- 29:52Speaker 1: there before the shooting. Did he wear gloves on those days?
- 29:57Speaker 1: Did he go up there dressed as I said in
- 29:58Speaker 1: a Hawaiian T shirt or a Utah T shirt to
- 30:02Speaker 1: blend in.
- 30:04Speaker 4: I mean that is a huge, huge source of information.
- 30:09Speaker 1: Up evince one hair, one fingerprint, anything, Dan, how do
- 30:14Speaker 1: we do it? Yep?
- 30:15Speaker 7: Right now, you have got tons to work on in
- 30:17Speaker 7: this case. I have absolutely no doubt that this individual
- 30:20Speaker 7: will be arrested, and I think in the next forty
- 30:22Speaker 7: eight hours we'll see in arrest this person. As slick
- 30:25Speaker 7: as they think they are, they're not that slick. Everybody
- 30:27Speaker 7: screws up. If you left the forum impression, it's because
- 30:30Speaker 7: possibly up on the roof, it's a softer roof, maybe
- 30:34Speaker 7: there was a way because of the heat of the sun.
- 30:36Speaker 7: It'll enable that. But if you left the palm print,
- 30:38Speaker 7: that means he was not wearing gloves, provided it's his
- 30:41Speaker 7: palm print. If he's not wearing gloves, that means he
- 30:44Speaker 7: loaded the weapon without wearing gloves, which all leaves fingerprints
- 30:48Speaker 7: on rounds, on magazines, on all of it. All of
- 30:50Speaker 7: this is usable evidence. The hair, any DNA that may
- 30:54Speaker 7: come off, that is all usable evidence. This individual probably
- 30:57Speaker 7: from out of town. You're going to check hot tells,
- 31:00Speaker 7: You're going to check rental cars, You're going to check
- 31:02Speaker 7: vehicles parked in parking lots. You're going to check the video.
- 31:06Speaker 7: There's so many investigative avenues right now. I don't give
- 31:09Speaker 7: this person much chance to get out of this. They're
- 31:11Speaker 7: going to get caught.
- 31:12Speaker 1: I got something more for everybody to drink in. Earlier
- 31:15Speaker 1: today we learned that investigators say the perp arrived on
- 31:19Speaker 1: campus eleven fifty two a m. But that's just today.
- 31:25Speaker 1: That does not negate Lori Moore's assertion that this sniper's
- 31:29Speaker 1: nest had been staked out before and prepared before. But
- 31:34Speaker 1: on the day of the shooting, he arrived at eleven.
- 31:37Speaker 4: Fifty two a m.
- 31:39Speaker 1: And get this, they have been able to track Gibbs
- 31:42Speaker 1: movements on the campus through stairwells to a roof to
- 31:50Speaker 1: the shooting location. So doctor Chloe Carmichael joining us or
- 31:56Speaker 1: a now psychologist and author, Chloe, this guy was lying
- 32:02Speaker 1: in weight. He was lying in wait since eleven fifty
- 32:06Speaker 1: two am this morning. And he didn't just show up.
- 32:09Speaker 1: He didn't just fall off the turnip truck outside that building.
- 32:13Speaker 1: He knew how to navigate the building's interior up to
- 32:18Speaker 1: the roof. He has been tracked all the way up
- 32:21Speaker 1: the stairwell into the building, up the stairwell, into the roof,
- 32:25Speaker 1: if he wasn't wearing gloves, if he touched that banister,
- 32:28Speaker 1: if he touched anything a door knob without.
- 32:31Speaker 4: The gloves on, He's toast.
- 32:34Speaker 1: Who plans something to this degree and why.
- 32:38Speaker 12: It's eerily similar. President Trump's assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania was
- 32:43Speaker 12: from a rooftop just one hundred and thirty three yards away.
- 32:46Speaker 12: This one was from a rooftop two hundred yards away.
- 32:50Speaker 12: I would like to understand, you know, why more isn't
- 32:54Speaker 12: being done as far as security. The healthy function of
- 32:57Speaker 12: anger is to stimulate boundary setting behaviors. So why when
- 33:02Speaker 12: we're angry about these attacks, why aren't we enforcing our boundaries?
- 33:06Speaker 12: Why aren't we strengthening our boundaries.
- 33:10Speaker 13: Accounting we're not coming day winess?
- 33:12Speaker 5: Oh my god.
- 33:15Speaker 1: Also, tonight we are learning that phrases were written on
- 33:20Speaker 1: the gun, written on the rifle and the ammunition discovered
- 33:26Speaker 1: in the woods, very very similar to phrases written on
- 33:33Speaker 1: the ammunition in the Luigi Mangioni assassination.
- 33:38Speaker 4: Who goes to the trouble to.
- 33:39Speaker 1: Write phrases related to cultural issues.
- 33:44Speaker 4: On the ammo?
- 33:46Speaker 1: We are learning among the markings initials at law enforcement
- 33:49Speaker 1: using in hopes of matching them with a suspect. Wow, okay,
- 33:56Speaker 1: Catherine Schweidt, you are the creator of the FBI's Active
- 34:02Speaker 1: Shooter program.
- 34:03Speaker 4: What does this mean?
- 34:05Speaker 6: I think this is very typical what we're seeing now
- 34:07Speaker 6: with some of our most scary shooters is they're wanting
- 34:11Speaker 6: to be famous, and this is the way they want
- 34:14Speaker 6: to be famous. They don't even necessarily have to have
- 34:17Speaker 6: a political bent or view. They just want to be famous.
- 34:20Speaker 6: And they see that other people have done this on
- 34:23Speaker 6: their weapons, not only in United States but worldwide, and
- 34:26Speaker 6: on their magazines and their ammunition to make sure that
- 34:30Speaker 6: everybody knows who they are, and they identify on those
- 34:34Speaker 6: weapons lots of things like you know, political but also
- 34:38Speaker 6: cultural controversial things, and they just want to have a voice,
- 34:42Speaker 6: and this is how they do it, a voice after
- 34:44Speaker 6: they disappear, after they die, if they commit suicide or
- 34:47Speaker 6: they're killed.
- 34:48Speaker 1: What do you think about the video and what you've
- 34:51Speaker 1: learned on the FBI sac presser.
- 34:54Speaker 6: I think what we have is, as you just heard,
- 34:58Speaker 6: we're going to be We're going to be going probably
- 35:00Speaker 6: to get this guy pretty quickly.
- 35:02Speaker 4: I think that.
- 35:03Speaker 6: The one thing that struck me about the press press
- 35:05Speaker 6: conference this morning is that the SEC said, we have
- 35:09Speaker 6: a good video from him getting up into getting to
- 35:12Speaker 6: the building eleven fifty two, getting up, getting on the building,
- 35:15Speaker 6: getting jumping off the building. Clearly they had full video
- 35:18Speaker 6: footage of him the whole ways, but I think that
- 35:20Speaker 6: they must have a shot where they have a face.
- 35:23Speaker 6: And the reason I say that is because he said,
- 35:26Speaker 6: we will release the video if we can't use technology
- 35:30Speaker 6: to identify who he is. And a it could be
- 35:32Speaker 6: that they're looking to tak to try to do a
- 35:34Speaker 6: palm print, but I think the fact that he said
- 35:36Speaker 6: that gives me the impression that we probably have possibly
- 35:40Speaker 6: a hood down someplace, a face uncovered at some place,
- 35:44Speaker 6: and otherwise they're going to release it and have people
- 35:47Speaker 6: hope to identifid And.
- 35:48Speaker 1: The reality is, Catherine schwa it doesn't have to be
- 35:51Speaker 1: that day, since we know who was wearing a face
- 35:54Speaker 1: covering that day. That facial recognition video could be from
- 35:59Speaker 1: another day when he was walking through campus and heading
- 36:02Speaker 1: over there to go up those steps, or it could
- 36:05Speaker 1: be the day of the shooting before he put on
- 36:08Speaker 1: the master's any number of times he could have been
- 36:10Speaker 1: caught on video facially.
- 36:12Speaker 6: Exactly they pulled this video footage, they find out the
- 36:15Speaker 6: same they pulled a feed from shooting yesterday.
- 36:18Speaker 4: They can pull the.
- 36:18Speaker 6: Feed from the day before and see a guy who
- 36:21Speaker 6: doesn't have his face covered running a reconnaissance. So I'm
- 36:24Speaker 6: thinking that's why they think they might be able to
- 36:26Speaker 6: use technology to figure it out.
- 36:28Speaker 1: Straight back out to CoA lormore former Army snipers sharpshooter.
- 36:33Speaker 1: The type of weapons specifically is a thirty odd to
- 36:37Speaker 1: six caliber high powered bolt action. It's a military rifle
- 36:42Speaker 1: very popular with hunters. Several bullets, including a spent round,
- 36:48Speaker 1: found in the rifles chambers were recovered.
- 36:52Speaker 4: Explained, so thirty.
- 36:54Speaker 5: Odd six is extremely common among hunters all across the
- 36:57Speaker 5: United States, especially in those Midwest states, and leaving the
- 37:02Speaker 5: round expended round in the chamber is essentially smart because
- 37:08Speaker 5: you don't want to leave anything on the target. You
- 37:10Speaker 5: don't want to leave anything on his sniper hide site.
- 37:13Speaker 4: What did you just say?
- 37:14Speaker 1: You don't want to leave anything on a sniper wet
- 37:17Speaker 1: is sniper's.
- 37:17Speaker 5: Nest you're referring to. You don't want to leave anything there.
- 37:20Speaker 5: So how he left the palm print, Yeah.
- 37:22Speaker 4: Yeah, got you.
- 37:23Speaker 1: The palm print could also, Gosh, I don't think it's
- 37:26Speaker 1: going to be on the weapon. I think the forearm.
- 37:29Speaker 1: How would a forearm print get on the weapon? Looks
- 37:32Speaker 1: like he's wearing long sleeves. Where would the forearm print
- 37:35Speaker 1: be found? Maybe from an earlier day when he was
- 37:38Speaker 1: up there?
- 37:39Speaker 4: How could you leave behind a forearm print? CoA.
- 37:41Speaker 5: The forearm print could be left behind either on the
- 37:44Speaker 5: ground or on the weapon based on how he's looks
- 37:47Speaker 5: like he's shooting, laying down, which is the most stable
- 37:50Speaker 5: shooting position for any long range shooter.
- 37:59Speaker 4: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 38:04Speaker 1: Two special guests joining us now doctor Kendall Crowns, chief
- 38:10Speaker 1: medical Examiner Terran County. He is the esteemed lecturer at
- 38:15Speaker 1: the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU. He's the star
- 38:18Speaker 1: of a Hitney podcast, Mayhem and the Morgue, and he
- 38:21Speaker 1: has performed literally thousands and thousands of autopsies for my
- 38:28Speaker 1: purposes tonight, including gunshot wound autopsies. I wanted you to
- 38:33Speaker 1: hear the type of ballistic and see the bullet type
- 38:38Speaker 1: that Cole or Moore.
- 38:39Speaker 4: Just showed us.
- 38:42Speaker 1: This couldn't have been instant instantaneous death a doctor Kendall
- 38:49Speaker 1: crowns because we know that Charlie Kirk grabbed I think
- 38:54Speaker 1: with his right arm, grabbed his neck when he was shot,
- 38:59Speaker 1: so he knew what was happening to him, explain to
- 39:05Speaker 1: us what happened.
- 39:06Speaker 10: So in the very graphic video of him being shot,
- 39:09Speaker 10: you can see the wound coming into his neck right
- 39:12Speaker 10: around where I'm indicating, and he tips backwards right after
- 39:17Speaker 10: he's shot, and he brings his arms up. But actually
- 39:20Speaker 10: when he's bringing his arms up, he's exhibiting what we
- 39:23Speaker 10: call decordicut posturing, which means his spinal cord has been
- 39:29Speaker 10: severed from his brain and it's no longer communicating with
- 39:33Speaker 10: the rest of his body. So he was instantly rendered
- 39:36Speaker 10: a quadriplegic. So that movement you see is actually just
- 39:39Speaker 10: a reflexive movement by his nervous system trying to figure
- 39:43Speaker 10: out what's going on. Then you see him tipping to
- 39:47Speaker 10: the side and blood start gushing out of his wound
- 39:50Speaker 10: on his neck, which to me means it's an artery
- 39:53Speaker 10: that's hit more likely than not, the carotid artery and
- 39:57Speaker 10: the jugular veins, so he's hemorrhaging. Heavily out the side
- 40:00Speaker 10: of his neck as he's falling to the ground. Now,
- 40:03Speaker 10: this final cord being severed at this level could be
- 40:07Speaker 10: below C five C six, so he could still be
- 40:11Speaker 10: breathing and still be alive for a period of time,
- 40:16Speaker 10: which he was when he was rushed to the hospital
- 40:18Speaker 10: and die. But the damage that was done was so severe.
- 40:22Speaker 10: Even if he had survived, he probably would have had
- 40:24Speaker 10: a stroke and he would have been a quadriplegic.
- 40:27Speaker 4: Would you ever consider making a run for the presidency?
- 40:33Speaker 2: He knew that was devil.
- 40:35Speaker 8: I'm thirty one years old. I got a great life,
- 40:39Speaker 8: and if they ever run out of people, I don't
- 40:42Speaker 8: even know if I would consider it. You know why
- 40:44Speaker 8: people say, are you going to run for Senate or Congress?
- 40:46Speaker 8: I'd say, listen, honestly, I think the impact we're making
- 40:49Speaker 8: is bigger than sometimes some of the US senators. I
- 40:51Speaker 8: don't know if you guys agree or not. I do.
- 40:52Speaker 8: But again, I'm not trying to be braggadocious, but I
- 40:56Speaker 8: can say what I want to say. We have a
- 40:58Speaker 8: very successful podcast too. Listens to the Charlie kirkshow anybody?
- 41:01Speaker 3: I mean, it's amazing, Wow, he does and.
- 41:04Speaker 8: Our campus tours are sweeping, are sweeping the country, billions
- 41:07Speaker 8: of yews. I got over a thousand employees. I'm the
- 41:10Speaker 8: most blessed. I have to pinch myself when I wake
- 41:12Speaker 8: up every single day that I get to be able
- 41:14Speaker 8: to do this as my job, and so I never
- 41:16Speaker 8: want to lose that. I always just want the highest
- 41:19Speaker 8: and greatest.
- 41:19Speaker 4: Impact from Charlie Kirk insta.
- 41:24Speaker 1: At this hour, the manhunt is on for the lone shooter,
- 41:29Speaker 1: the assassin that gunned down thirty one year old Charlie Kirk.
- 41:34Speaker 1: And there's a lot of evidence. We have what we
- 41:37Speaker 1: believe to be the murder weapon. We have AMMO with
- 41:41Speaker 1: inscriptions written on it and or the murder weapon. Prayers
- 41:48Speaker 1: and thoughts two and four. Charlie Kirk's widow and two children.
- 42:00Speaker 4: Listen.
- 42:01Speaker 13: I happen to be watching Charlie. I can't say I
- 42:04Speaker 13: saw blood. I can't say I saw him get shot.
- 42:07Speaker 13: But as soon as that shot went out, he fell.
- 42:10Speaker 2: Back, and who was left.
- 42:13Speaker 11: And everybody hit the deck.
- 42:16Speaker 9: Charlie Kirk is back on the road, manning his Proved
- 42:19Speaker 9: Me Wrong table at college campuses around the country this fall.
- 42:22Speaker 9: Kirk is calling his scheduled appearances the American Comeback Tour
- 42:27Speaker 9: That Proved Me Wrong. Debates have grown from simple conversations
- 42:31Speaker 9: with a few students over a folding table to ticketed
- 42:34Speaker 9: events students and locals turn out to in the thousands.
- 42:38Speaker 9: Kirk's first stop this year is at Utah Valley University
- 42:42Speaker 9: in Orum, Utah.
- 42:43Speaker 1: That first seven from our friends at Fox News. At
- 42:46Speaker 1: this hour, the manhunt goes on for the assassin that
- 42:49Speaker 1: gunned down Charlie Kirk. Don't you know that every cam
- 42:55Speaker 1: is being processed, red light cams, doorbell cams, ring cam's
- 43:01Speaker 1: surveillance video at the campus and beyond cameras at firing
- 43:06Speaker 1: ranges where we believe the perp practiced this as the
- 43:11Speaker 1: latest developments are that the weapon and AMMO have been found,
- 43:15Speaker 1: which should give us a clue as to who is
- 43:19Speaker 1: the shooter. What about security? I mean, I know that's
- 43:23Speaker 1: would it could have, should have at this point, but
- 43:27Speaker 1: practically no security at the scene for Charlie Kirk. Also,
- 43:33Speaker 1: he's at the bottom of a fishbowl, much like the
- 43:35Speaker 1: Mandalay shooter, is completely vulnerable from a shooter at an
- 43:42Speaker 1: elevated sniper's den.
- 43:44Speaker 13: Listen, Charlie has some security in front of him, but
- 43:50Speaker 13: you got the sense that the shot came kind of
- 43:52Speaker 13: straight at him, and I don't think there would be
- 43:56Speaker 13: many vantage points too far away because he was under
- 44:01Speaker 13: in the haunting.
- 44:02Speaker 9: Students and or locals who attended Kirk's American Comeback tour
- 44:06Speaker 9: say there was a little security and no bag checks
- 44:09Speaker 9: or metal detectors at the event. The debate between students
- 44:13Speaker 9: and Kirk was a ticketed event, but students said on
- 44:16Speaker 9: arrival campus staff was not checking them in and anyone
- 44:20Speaker 9: was allowed to come and go as they pleased.
- 44:23Speaker 1: That first down from our friends at Fox and Friends
- 44:25Speaker 1: back to Coote Laurimore. There's no way that security directly
- 44:29Speaker 1: in front of Charlie could have protected him from a
- 44:34Speaker 1: sniper at an elevated angle.
- 44:36Speaker 5: No, there's no way that they could have prevented this
- 44:40Speaker 5: with security just standing right in front of him. They
- 44:43Speaker 5: would have to have security a couple hundred meters out
- 44:46Speaker 5: on all the buildings in the surrounding areas. It was
- 44:49Speaker 5: just a bad combination, Kle.
- 44:51Speaker 1: I'd like to see the bullet that you were showing
- 44:54Speaker 1: us again. Imagine that tearing through thirty one year old
- 45:02Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk's throat. Leaving behind a widow, a young widow
- 45:11Speaker 1: and two infant children. To Dan Murphy joining US former
- 45:17Speaker 1: NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force, and so much more Star
- 45:21Speaker 1: Goalshields Podcast, Dan. The evidence is piling up, but this
- 45:27Speaker 1: guy could still outsmart everybody.
- 45:30Speaker 7: Nancy, I don't think he's going to how smart to anybody.
- 45:33Speaker 7: I think he's left the trail of evidence because he
- 45:35Speaker 7: is the typical criminal in many ways. Who does that.
- 45:38Speaker 7: He's acting out of emotion. This is a well planned event,
- 45:42Speaker 7: but I don't care how well you plan it. The
- 45:44Speaker 7: typical person is going to screw up. They've left the trail.
- 45:48Speaker 7: They will be found. I have one hundred confidence and
- 45:52Speaker 7: arrest and the right person will be caught quickly.
- 45:54Speaker 14: The investigation is ongoing, but I want to make it
- 46:00Speaker 14: crystal clear right now to whoever did this, we will
- 46:04Speaker 14: find you.
- 46:05Speaker 1: If you know or think you know anything about the
- 46:10Speaker 1: identity of the assassin that took the life of thirty
- 46:13Speaker 1: one year old.
- 46:14Speaker 4: Dad Charlie Kirk.
- 46:16Speaker 1: Please don't try and protect someone out of a false
- 46:21Speaker 1: sense of loyalty. Don't believe that what you know is
- 46:25Speaker 1: insignificant or means nothing. It could very well be the
- 46:29Speaker 1: one clue that cracks the murder case.
- 46:33Speaker 4: Tip line eight.
- 46:34Speaker 1: Zero one five seventy nine fourteen hundred Repeat eight zero
- 46:40Speaker 1: one five seven nine fourteen hundred tips dot FBI dot gov.
- 46:49Speaker 4: And of course.
- 46:52Speaker 1: The timing of the shooting is so heartbreaking as well.
- 46:58Speaker 1: Tonight we remember the thousands who lost their lives September eleventh.
- 47:08Speaker 1: I was there that day and will never forget the pain,
- 47:14Speaker 1: the wake of pain left behind. On September eleventh, we
- 47:21Speaker 1: honor those the emergency workers, the military, police volunteers, those
- 47:29Speaker 1: people who put themselves in harm's way to save others
- 47:36Speaker 1: and for our freedom.
- 47:41Speaker 4: And to the assassin, if you believe your bullet stopped us.
- 47:48Speaker 1: And anyone from speaking out, you are very wrong.
- 47:53Speaker 4: You have only empowered us.
- 47:58Speaker 1: Nancy Grace signing off, good bye friend,