A police officer at the university where prominent conservative US activist Charlie Kirk was killed last year testified on Monday that he saw what looked like a “sniper pad” atop the building from which the fatal shot was fired.
Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk sat during Monday’s preliminary hearing just a few feet away from Tyler Robinson, the man accused of driving four hours from to kill Kirk, 31, last September. Members of Robinson’s family also were present.
Kirk, a co-founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, was credited with energising many young voters behind Donald Trump in his campaign to regain the presidency in the 2024 US election.
The president’s son Donald Trump Jr. reportedly also attended the hearing.
Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika leaves the courtroom which will decide if a man will stand trial for her husband’s alleged murder. (Picture: Marielle Scott/AP)Court case begins
Prosecutors are seeking to convince District Court Judge Tony Graf that probable cause exists to believe that Robinson, 23, fired the single shot that killed Kirk in front of thousands of people in the US state of Utah.
Prosecutors have said they plan to seek the death penalty for Robinson.
Kirk was shot while appearing at Utah Valley University for one of his campus debates that drew crowds and gave him national prominence.
Chris Bagley, who at the time was an officer with the university’s police force on duty the day of the killing, said he saw Kirk shot, and described the ensuing chaos.
A former campus police officer at Utah Valley University recalled the moment he heard the gunshot that killed Charlie Kirk during a Turning Point USA event last September.During testimony at a preliminary hearing for the man accused of killing the 31-year-old, Officer Chris… pic.twitter.com/zMOxDFQ1Qf
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 6, 2026“He was answering a question, and then I heard a shot fired,” Bagley testified as the first prosecution witness. “Everybody started getting up and starting to run in a sort of chaotic, panic situation.”
Bagley said he saw Kirk slump to the left after the gunshot.
Bagley said he ran to a campus building from which he believed the shot came, and went up four flights of stairs to the roof.
There, Bagley said, he found a screwdriver and disturbances in the gravel, photographs of which were entered into evidence. Bagley said the depressions in the gravel were apparently made by elbows, knees and feet.
“To me, it looks like a sniper pad,” Bagley said.
Bagley said campus police video showed a person on the roof getting into position to shoot Kirk, taking a shot, then running to the northeast side of the building. The person dropped off the roof into grass below and escaped, Bagley said.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk. (Picture: Rick Egan/Pool via Reuters)No metal detector checks at event
In cross-examination, Robinson’s lawyer Kathryn Nester asked Bagley about security at the event. Bagley said six campus police officers were on duty, together with Kirk’s security detail, though there were no metal detector checks for firearms.
Bagley said he saw an empty pistol holster on the ground at the top of the courtyard where Kirk was shot, but it was neither recovered as evidence nor checked for fingerprints.
At one point, the judge watched a video of the moment Kirk was shot on a monitor positioned so that the courtroom camera could not capture it. The prosecution said the video was too graphic to be made public.
Robinson faces seven criminal charges including aggravated murder.
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