A pair of grey Converse sneakers with white shoelaces helped authorities nail Tyler Robinson for Charlie Kirk’s assassination, newly surfaced courtroom paperwork reveal.
Utah Valley College surveillance video captured Robinson, 22, sporting the kicks as he bizarrely moved across the campus within the moments main as much as the Sept. 10, 2025, deadly capturing from a campus constructing rooftop, in response to a search-warrant affidavit unsealed Thursday.
Investigators later discovered a shoe impression from the rooftop that was “in step with the shoe sole traits of a Converse/Chuck Taylor shoe” that Robinson was sporting on the time, the affidavit said.
A separate courtroom doc famous that police later recovered a pair of “gray Converse sneakers with white laces” from Robinson’s St. George household house whereas executing a search warrant.
The accused capital-murderer was captured on video footage 33 minutes earlier than the deadly gunfire, when he was seen strolling by means of a grassy space on campus, then by means of a parking zone and pedestrian tunnel.
Robinson – who was additionally sporting a blue hat, sun shades, darkish denims, a black backpack and a long-sleeved black shirt depicting an American flag and eagle – at first walked with a limp, Utah authorities famous within the courtroom docs.
“Robinson seems to stroll with a stiff proper leg and at a comparatively gradual tempo,” the affidavit said, noting that his “capacity to bend his proper leg seems to be restricted.”
At one level earlier than coming into the tunnel, Robinson then whips out a cellphone and kinds one thing earlier than placing it into his again pocket.
He continues right into a parking storage, the place “a bulge” in his clothes – presumably the firearm used to shoot and kill the 31-year-old political activist – is seen for the primary time, in response to the papers.
“As Robinson approaches the touchdown on the steps between the primary and second ground [of the parking garage], it seems as if there’s something bulging out from Robinson’s waistband space as he walks up the steps,” the paperwork stated.
“The bulge seems to be beneath Robinson’s black shirt and on the correct aspect of Robinson’s waistband space,” the affidavit stated.
Footage then reveals Robinson coming into UVU campus’s Losee Middle, strolling up a flight of stairs and climbing over a wall to get onto the constructing’s rooftop, the place he lays low for about 5 minutes earlier than allegedly taking his shot.
Throughout that point, he “lays down in a susceptible place close to the sting of the rooftop and seems to be going through west, within the course of the courtyard space…the place the occasion that includes Charlie Kirk was going down,” the courtroom papers said.
Seconds earlier than Kirk is shot, Robinson out of the blue pops up and begins springing in a method that’s “in stark distinction to the gradual and restricted gait noticed by Robinson in earlier surveillance digicam footage,” authorities famous within the docs.
Now at one other nook of the rooftop, “Robinson locations a darkish coloured merchandise on the rooftop and proceeds to decrease himself” and allegedly fires on the father of two, who was debating a scholar on a stage about 200 yards away.
Seconds later, “Robinson drops off the rooftop onto the grass under” and takes off operating, in response to the paperwork, which say investigators recovered the bolt motion rifle, wrapped in a towel, within the grassy space Robinson ran by means of.
Investigators additionally discovered “fingerprints and a smeared palm print within the neighborhood of the northeast nook rooftop fringe of the Losee Middle constructing the place Robinson dropped off the rooftop to the bottom under,” the docs state.
The alleged gunman was turned in by his father after a 33-hour-long police manhunt.
He now faces the demise penalty if convicted of aggravated homicide and is being held behind bars.
Robinson is due again in courtroom April 17, when his legal professionals are anticipated to argue why the press shouldn’t be allowed to report or take pictures at his hearings and trial.
