In the year following Charlie Kirk’s public assassination on September 10, 2025, much of the public has paid close attention to the investigation into his death. After limited revelations by government authorities, a five-day preliminary hearing against the accused killer, Tyler Robinson, and the testimonies of individuals with knowledge of the investigation, several major questions remain unanswered.
1. Tyler Robinson pleaded not guilty.
After nearly a year of media narratives and influencers stating plainly that Robinson already admitted guilt, he officially pleaded not guilty in court on September 1 at the conclusion of the preliminary hearing when Judge Tony Graf determined the case will go to trial.
In addition, there is audio recording of Robinson’s grandparents speaking with independent journalists during a court proceeding earlier in the year. In the recording, Robinson’s grandfather clearly states that he believes Robinson is being framed.
2. The crime scene was paved over within four days of the assassination.
Agent David Hull, who was a lead investigator on the case for the Utah State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), testified that he was not informed that the crime scene – the area in the amphitheater where Kirk was killed – would be paved over and that he found out in the news.
A local Utah man came forward and described how he was called for an “emergency paver” situation on that Sunday following the Wednesday assassination, and put together a last-minute crew to install pavers into the area where soil had already been excavated. He stated this request was coming from Utah’s Governor Cox and the FBI, who wanted this completed by Monday.
3. Charlie messaged two individuals on September 9 saying he thought he was going to be killed.
Early investigation revealed that Charlie sent messages to two different individuals – Dan Flood, his head of security, and Andrew Kolvet, who handles PR for TPUSA – saying he was worried he was going to be killed.
Given that Kirk routinely spoke at campus events, it struck many as odd that the day before he was killed, he seemed particularly on edge about security.
4. Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Joe Kent said the FBI blocked his office from finishing their investigation into potential foreign leads connected to the assassination.
Joe Kent, who resigned from his post in protest of the Iran War breaking out, has publicly stated multiple times that the NCTC was blocked by the FBI and director Kash Patel from finishing their investigation.
Kent was particularly concerned with the fact that there were individuals on social media posting that Kirk would be killed on the day of the event. Because of this online chatter, Kent has a hard time believing that Tyler Robinson acted as a lone gunman.
Per a previous report, Kent says “within about a week or two” after September 10, the FBI blocked the NCTC from access to the case file information. Upon Kent’s objection, Patel responded and doubled down, saying that the FBI was handing everything over to the Utah state authorities. Kent was warned that his continued investigation could interfere with the trial against Tyler Robinson. Kent was also threatened that he may be called to the stand by the defense team if his investigation continued.
5. Employees at a steakhouse hours away say Robinson was eating at their restaurant at the time when the text messages claim he was elsewhere.
The FBI contacted employees that worked at a steakhouse in Panguitch, Utah, who say that Tyler Robinson was eating alone at their restaurant while he was supposedly in Orem, hours away.
A previous article outlined this information:
Outside of this preliminary hearing, employees at a restaurant in Panguitch, Utah spoke out about Robinson allegedly coming in and eating a meal at the bar by himself on the evening of September 10. These witnesses previously stated that Robinson came in around 8:45 PM. At the time, they did not know who he was, but after his photo was released to the public in the following days, they realized they thought he had been in their restaurant. They claimed to have checked the credit card receipts and confirmed that it was him…
…Panguitch is approximately three hours away from Orem, Utah. In the text exchange between Twiggs and Robinson after 11PM, Robinson indicates he is “stuck in Orem” and that an officer with a K9 had been around the wooded area where the gun was supposedly left behind, in addition to a vehicle that was “lingering.” Though the witnesses from the restaurant have not been referenced or introduced in this preliminary hearing, [Baron] Coleman pointed out that it would be impossible for Robinson to be eating the meal in Panguitch while also monitoring the crime scene in Orem, and that the entire text exchange with Twiggs would have at soonest been while Robinson was driving back to Orem.
This report refers to the alleged text message confession between Robinson and his roommate and boyfriend Lance Twiggs, though timestamps and location information have not been provided or presented in court to confirm the whereabouts of the devices sending these messages.
6. Forensic tests cannot prove that the alleged rifle belonging to Robinson fired the fragments, presumed to be pieces of a bullet, found in Kirk’s autopsy.
Also, the ATF expert who analyzed these fragments stated during testimony at the preliminary hearing that the diameter of the fragments were smaller than the diameter of a .30-06, which is the caliber of ammunition that killed Kirk, according to the official investigation.
7. Despite ample surveillance on the campus of Utah Valley University, no footage of the shot taken exists.
During the preliminary hearing, the prosecution acknowledged that no footage of the actual shooting exists. We also do not have a clear image of Tyler Robinson on campus that day.
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