FBI release images of 'person of interest' in Charlie Kirk shooting

[Shrek]

Source: BBC

The FBI in Salt Lake City has just released pictures of a "person of interest" in the shooting of Charlie Kirk yesterday.

They are asking for the public's help in identifying the person. They are the first images law enforcement has released of an individual they believe may be involved in Kirk's death.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c206zm81z4gt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. USA flag & maybe eagle indicate political interest and not much else right or left. . . . nt

[sboatcar]

2. Yeah, not much to go on other than 'skinny white person'

Can't tell hair color, length, anything like that. Gender isn't apparent either.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Most shooters are male.

[Lanius]

44. And white.

Why aren't we talking about white-on-white crime, Fox Noise?

[SunSeeker]

16. You can see dark brown/black hair and side burns below his baseball cap.

Looks very much like a male; no breasts, male body shape, male haircut, masculine clothing. He has light skin. He has relatively short hair, clean shaven...may not even shave yet. Thin neck and jaw line, looks young, early twenties at best, could be a teenager. He fled on foot into a wooded area, then on foot into the neighborhood; may not have a car or even a driver's license yet. He apparently discarded what is described as a "high powered" long rifle in the wooded area as he fled. My guess is the rifle is not registered to him. Probably his dad's or someone else's. Left a palm and firearm print. Definitely not a professional. FBI says the were able to track his movements on the roof, which means he had a cell phone and it was turned on, another rookie move. Professional snipers know the FBI can check cell tower data to see the movements of everyone with a cell phone in that area. The FBI apparently lost track of him after he enters a nearby neighborhood. He may have gotten in someone's car and drove off, or disabled his phone at that point. But the FBI have a lot to go on at this point. My guess is he is a local. They should be able to track him down and capture him quickly. But this is Kash Patel's FBI we're talking about, so all bets are off.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/11/charlie-kirk-shooting-killed-suspect-live-updates/86087240007/

[Miguelito Loveless]

24. His tradecraft may have sucked

but he seems to have been a good shot or very lucky.

If they were tracking his phone, and it wasn't a burner, he is officially an idiot.

[Deminpenn]

53. Lots of hunters start out

as kids - getting a rifle, learning to shoot and going hunting with their dad during deer season.

[Crowman2009]

9. More like MAGA camoflauge.

[Omnipresent]

29. That shirt looks like the kind you would buy at trump rally.

[SCantiGOP]

37. Or what a shooter would wear

so they would’t stand out at a right wing function.

[Omnipresent]

39. So you're thinking he might be a "leftwing radical"?

Trump’s so right about everything, they should put that on a hat!

[SCantiGOP]

43. No

I am saying that it is ridiculous for anyone to make an analysis based on the t-shirt someone is wearing.

[Omnipresent]

49. See post 22

[Lanius]

46. Lol he could have worn a blank shirt and still wouldn't hav stood out as a young white guy at a Trump rally.

[efhmc]

3. Why is that info as is so much from the BBC?

Or the Guardian?

[JustAnotherGen]

12. AP News has it at the top of their landing page

As of 1 PM -
https://apnews.com/live/charlie-kirk-shooting-response-updates

[Jim__]

5. Here's the picture:

[Ray Bruns]

10. Here's another picture released by Kash Patel's FBI

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Wrong

Kash Patel was born 17 or more years after that photo.

You can't pin (as if there is a controversy) that on him and yes, it is a photo, it is of Oswald, and any controversy about it bogus shit.

[Keepthesoulalive]

32. It's a joke son

[Torchlight]

40. Sounds pretty serious

Good luck!

[Ray Bruns]

45. It's not a picture of Kash Patel, it's one his FBI agency has released.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

56. I would like you to read

I wrote it was a picture of Oswald. I never said anyone said it was of Patel and nobody said it was a picture of Patel.

yes, it is a photo, it is of Oswald, and any controversy about it bogus shit.

There is a controversy about the photo, of course, all ginned up by the conspiracy theorists around. They like to cynically pretend that organizations never change and have corrupt lineages traceable to the current regime while they discount well known facts, so I simply pointed out that Patel was not involved. It is a noteworthy aspect of authoritarian regimes that they lie about everything, not to get people to believe their lies, but to get people to disbelieve everything. That kind of erosion in public consciousness must be resisted. Conspiracy theorists are such tools of others and they are clueless about that aspect.

[Leghorn21]

27. LEE BABY!!

[SunSeeker]

33. LOL

[Lanius]

47. He doesn't look very young to me.

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At least not as young as an undergrad. He looks more like early 30s.

Scratch that he was 22.

[mwmisses4289]

55. Could be anywhere between 18 and 35.

I have known people in their thirties who looked like they had barely graduated high school, and teenagers who looked like they were in their late twenties. Just saying that whoever this is, their age is hard to guess.

[Captain Zero]

61. What's the black mark on the shirt?

Is it a gun, or is something being marked out?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. They'll have this guy by the end of the day.

Whether he’s the shooter or not is another story.


But palm prints on the gun? Sloppy sloppy sloppy.

[hamsterjill]

59. That's my fear.

How exactly did they pick THIS guy out of everyone else in the crowd? What did he do that tipped them off? He does everything else right, yet leaves a print?

Lots and lots of questions.

[OC375]

7. Looks Odd

Weird face and body shape. Sickly? But not just that. Something just looks "off". YMMV

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. When obesity is the average, normally slim people are termed "sickly" on no evidence.

I was that thin at that age and so far I've lived in good health for decades.

[OC375]

11. Wasn't An Insult

Just trying to say something about him looks "odd". Probably just the freeze frame distorting things?

[LiberalArkie]

13. I think because the guy in the images appear angry, Hands are gripped very tight in both images. Like in fists.

The type that would make anyone walking towards him automatically move to get out of the way..

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Angry is a stretch, many reasons for bunched fists which might be momentary or tension, though I did notice them. . . nt

[LiberalArkie]

17. Probably means nothing, but living in 90% Trump area of Arkansas, I see a guy walking like that, I get the hell out of

Dodge. Cause someone is going to get punched.

Probably different in other parts of the world. We just have a hell of a lot of angry people.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. We do not know he was "walking like that". It's one photo, a still from a video. . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. I didn't take it is an insult and I wasn't faulting you, but rather the obesity of society

Cap not odd, body shape not odd, sweatshirt not odd, design on shirt not odd, jeans not odd, running shoes not odd, sunglasses not odd.

Clothing a bit bunched at shoulder in one shot, but even that is not especially odd. I guess it is possible he might have thin body armor under the shirt.

[Lanius]

48. I agree. When I lost a lot of weight a few years ago, my family was telling me I was too skinny

even though I was at a normal weight for my height and build. As Americans, we've just become too used to seeing overweight and obese folks that a normal weight now looks skinny.

[SpankMe]

21. I think it's distorted because it's such a low res image

Hard to say if it has been manipulated. With Kash Patel in charge, I have a hard time trusting anything from the FBI.

[Farmer-Rick]

30. There is something weird about his chest

And back. Like he's wearing something underneath his shirt. Could it be a bullet proof vest? Or is it just distortion from the freeze frame video? Or chest rigging for rifle amo?

The Daily Beast says it's a book bag, which could be where his rifle is stowed, depending on the rifle and how it breaks down.

It does look lumpy.

[Gymbo]

65. I thought so too

The wide hips seemed feminine to me, and also the shoulders lack muscle. The sideburns disqualify my thoughts, but could be part of a hairstyle to be more masculine. I am probably wrong on all counts but couldn't help but notice.

[Exp]

19. Looks like a kid who's a 'coaler' in his truck that is plastered with Trump stickers. nt

[Miguelito Loveless]

22. Young, White male with a flag fetish

and believes himself a "patriot".

Checking all of the Right-wing boxes so far.

[mainer]

23. Where is his gun?

If he's heading up the stairs to the roof, then the gun would have to be already planted there.
If this photo is of him coming down, how did he transport that long gun to the woods, where it was later found wrapped in a towel?

I think this may not be the shooter.

[Miguelito Loveless]

25. If I were a conspiracy monger like

the Right is these days, I would be talking Russian agents setting this whole thing up to help Trump. An agent went in a day before to plant the rifle for the sniper, then a decoy agent goes around acting/dressing suspiciously, while better camouflaged agents spirit the gun away and plant it in the woods to be found. Whatever videos are out there are going to get the Zapruder treatment.

Of course, the Right will have tied it to Hunter/Joe/Hillary within the next day or so.

[orangecrush]

38. Agree

[intrepidity]

26. I mean, maybe I'm profiling, but that does not scream "liberal" to me

Looks much, much more like a Kirk follower, tbh.

[intrepidity]

28. Does anyone recognize the shirt?

I can't tell exactly what is on it. But looks magaish.

[SunSeeker]

35. It is described as an American flag with an eagle. nt

[MatthewStLouis]

36. It's a disabled veterans t-shirt

Search in google: Disabled Veterans Mens Land Of The Free Home Of The Brave Large Black Shirt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

58. You are right

https://www.ebay.com/itm/314904222949

(open image in a new tab)

[ImNotGod]

31. The only criminal I recognize who is on the loose is tRump. nt

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[Turbineguy]

34. He looks like Jeffrey Epstein.

[IronLionZion]

42. OK, that photo proves mental illness with no political agenda

[Bayard]

50. Travesty

trump plans to award, "Presidential Medal of Freedom" posthumously to Kirk.

[poli-junkie]

51. I wonder how long his backpack is?

It seems to go past his hips, over his butt, and down his thigh. See bulge behind his right thigh.

[poli-junkie]

52. Also: Is he wearing knee pads?

See how his knees appear to have pads under his jeans?

[kerouac2]

54. Disabled veterans shirt design

Google ai narrowed it down to that for me.

Sold on ebay

https://www.ebay.com/itm/286781676270

Similar
https://www.ebay.com/itm/145750950755

Or this one long sleeve
https://www.ebay.com/itm/167760693539

That would add an interesting twist to their narrative

[Prairie Gates]

62. The UVU Veteran's Center is in the building he shot from

But then again, so is the Women's Center.

[Captain Zero]

63. Has Charlie Kirk ever bad mouthed a DAV?

That's my question.

[Warpy]

57. Interesting

That eagle on the t shirt looks like a giant postage stamp, just sayin'. It leads me to believe there's a 60-40 chance he's a right

The killer has been smart so far. We'll see if he skips the country. Otherwise, the Feds will get him.

[eringer]

60. $100k Reward - Not my Tax Dollars!

Write the FBI and tell them to do their job with the Bozos they have left after the purge. We don’t need hired guns that are accountable to no one chasing wanted posters with quick trigger fingers.

[twodogsbarking]

64. To today's FBI we are all "persons of interest".