Kirk was addressing a crowd from underneath a tent on 10 September as a part of his American Comeback tour of school campuses, throughout which he invited attendees to debate him.
A shot rang out as he was talking about gun violence; Kirk slumped over to the aspect.
Chris Bagley, considered one of 4 legislation enforcement witnesses anticipated to take the stand in the course of the week-long listening to, had been stationed on a constructing above and realised from the noise that it had come from a rifle, not a handgun.
In court docket on Monday, he described a chaotic scene of individuals shouting and working and instructed the court docket that he was knowledgeable by legislation enforcement {that a} shooter had been taken into custody.
However he stated he found suspicious proof main him to imagine it may not be the precise suspect.
Bagley stated he discovered a screwdriver and an impression in gravel on a roof indicative of a sniper after which seen safety footage exhibiting a person dropping down and escaping from the realm.
He described a telling impression the suspect had left behind.
“I might see the disturbance of gravel; to me, it appears like a sniper pad, an individual that has been laying in a susceptible place, and you have got markings of elbows, knees and toes – the place any person was within the line of sight of the place Charlie’s tent was.”
Robinson’s defence lawyer Kathryn Nestor voiced a number of objections all through the testimony, asking him about staffing, planning and surveillance on the day of Kirk’s occasion.
One other witness, David Hull, instructed the court docket he’d been working as an agent with Utah’s State Bureau of Investigation on the time of Kirk’s taking pictures. He testified that he reviewed surveillance video from the day of the taking pictures and noticed Robinson “on campus… roughly 4 occasions all through the day”.
Hull testified that Robinson appeared on the faculty twice earlier than the assault, then once more on the time of the taking pictures – then returned that night, hours after Kirk’s dying.
Prosecutors additionally performed residence surveillance footage from a neighbourhood close to campus which they are saying reveals Robinson parking his grey Dodge, then returning later and driving away.
The listening to is about to proceed all week and can study proof and witnesses within the case to find out whether or not prosecutors have sufficient to current it earlier than a jury at trial.
