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Podcaster Candace Owens claims “there’s no evidence” Tyler Robinson murdered Charlie Kirk and alleges that “Charlie’s mic exploded” and Robinson’s rifle could not have fired the fatal bullet because it caused “minimal damage to Charlie’s neck though it would have taken down a bear.”

IN FACT, a handwritten note, texts, DNA, engraved ammunition, videos, and witnesses incriminate Robinson in the murder of Kirk, and bullet fragments consistent with Robinson’s rifle and ammo were found in Kirk. Here are the specifics:

  • The official charging document against Robinson states that his roommate turned over a text message to the police in which Robinson wrote, “ ‘drop what you are doing, look under my keyboard.’ The roommate looked under the keyboard and found a note stating, ‘I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.’ Police found a photograph of this note.”
  • The charging document records that Robinson’s roommate texted him, “you weren’t the one who did it right????” Robinson replied, “I am, I’m sorry”
  • The charging document records Robinson texting, “only thing I left was the rifle wrapped in a towel,” “I had planned to grab my rifle from my drop point shortly after, but most of that side of town got locked down,” “remember how I was engraving bullets,” “I’m worried what my old man would do if I didn’t bring back grandpas rifle,” “the feds released a photo of the rifle, and it is very unique,” and “my dad wants photos of the rifle.”
  • Surveillance videos show a person resembling Robinson entering the campus before Kirk’s murder while “walking with an unusual gait” that is “consistent with a rifle being hidden in his pants,” climbing “onto the roof” where there was a “clear shooting corridor” to Kirk, and “running across the roof carrying an item whose shape is consistent with a rifle” “immediately after the shot was fired.”
  • Police “followed the suspect’s escape path to the northeast end of campus,” “entered a wooded area,” and found a “bolt-action .30-06 rifle” that was “wrapped in a towel” and “contained one spent round and three unspent rounds,” each with an “etched inscription.”
  • DNA “consistent with Robinson’s was found on the trigger, other parts of the rifle, the fired cartridge casing, two of the three unfired cartridges, and the towel.”
  • On the “day after the shooting, Robinson’s mother saw the photo of the shooter in the news and thought the shooter looked like her son.” “Robinson’s father agreed” and “believed that the rifle that police suspected the shooter used matched a rifle that was given to his son as a gift,” so he “contacted his son and asked him to send a photo of the rifle.”
  • When the police “executed a search warrant on Robinson’s residence,” they “discovered a shell casing with etchings like the etchings found on the shells” in the recovered rifle.
  • Per an academic book on gunshot wounds and forensics, “centerfire” rifle hunting bullets like the “.30-06” are “designed to deform” in their “passage through the body” and hurl “fragments of lead” into “surrounding tissues.” Thus, they can create “massive internal injuries” with wounds that have a “benign external appearance.”
  • In keeping with the academic book and refuting Owens’ allegation of an exploding microphone, Kirk’s autopsy recovered “one bullet jacket fragment and four lead fragments.”
  • When the fact above was revealed in March 2026, Owens posted a Daily Mail headline that read, “Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did NOT match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson.” Along with this, Owens wrote, “Where are all my neocons who have been ‘overwhelmed’ by the non existent evidence against Tyler Robinson? You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Hope the money was worth your soul.”
  • In reality, the bullet fragments were consistent with Robinson’s rifle and ammo, but the “result of the comparison was inconclusive” because the “.30-caliber class” “bullet jacket fragment” recovered from Kirk was “deformed/damaged,” and “firearms that produce general rifling characteristics similar to those observed” on the “bullet jacket fragment include numerous makes and models.”
  • Nevertheless, Owens declared 4 months later that Robinson is “being wrongly framed for the murder of Charlie Kirk,” and she continues to this day spreading conspiracies while citing anonymous “sources.”
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