Police recover gunman’s rifle, video footage

Law enforcement officers said on Thursday that they have saved the rifle they believe to have been used to kill Conservative Political Activist Charlie Kirk, and they found other important evidence as the human hunt expanded.

At a press conference, FBI agent Robert Bohls, “High -Powerful, Bolted Rifle” on Wednesday at the Utah Valley University in Orem during an event, was found in a wooded area where he fled Kirk.

Inspectors also gathered a “shoe impression, a palm print and pre -traces for analysis”, special agent responsible for FBI’s Salt Late City Office.

“We’re not sure how long it has been.”

“This individual has good video images,” Utah Public Security Commissioner Beau Mason said. He said.

However, unless the authorities define the shooter on their own, “We will not release it right now,” he said.

While the civil servants at the press conference refused to offer special details about the suspect, the Mason said that the armed man was “well blended with college” and “appeared in the college age”.

Mason said that the shooter had come to the campus shortly before local time, and then climbed to a roof that appears to be replaced by Kirk’s activity. After the shooting, the suspect moved to the other side of the building, then jumped and fled to an out -of -campus neighborhood.

On Thursday morning, the print at the university came after the authorities were detained shortly after the shooting.

“There is no existing bond by shooting with any of these individuals,” Utah, the Ministry of Public Security, said in an update late on Wednesday. He said.

“There is an ongoing investigation and human hunt for the shooter.” He said.

According to Uvu, the armed man who killed Kirk targeted him and fired a campus 200 meters away from where Kirk spoke.

Kirk’s death was announced by President Donald Trump, who praised the effective activist as “a really big American patriot”.

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