Newly released police bodycam footage shows Tyler Robinson after a 2022 fender bender in Utah — sporting sunglasses and a hat eerily similar to what he was seen wearing while on the run after allegedly gunning down conservative activist Charlie Kirk three years later.
The video, obtained by Scripps News, shows the then-19-year-old Robinson calmly speaking with police after crashing his silver Audi into a Ford sedan making a left turn at an intersection in St. George, Utah.
“As I was coming through, he turned in, and I T-boned into the side of him,” the alleged assassin calmly explained to police in the nearly eight-minute never-before-seen footage.
Robinson, wearing a gray shirt, black shades and a gray hat, was driving with his brother in the passenger seat; both, along with the other driver, walked away uninjured.
The luxury car, leaking oil, was shown in the footage with its front hood smashed in.
“Just as I left the house, I put oil in it, just topped it off,” the accused gunman joked to the officer, who replied, “Welcome to real life.”
Robinson’s mother was also captured in the footage arriving at the crash site with insurance forms.
Neither driver received a citation for the accident.
Robinson, 22, is accused of firing the fatal shot that pierced the 31-year-old Turning Point USA founder’s neck while he spoke to thousands under a pop-up tent during the first stop of his “American Comeback Tour” at Utah Valley University in Orem on Sept. 10.
The vicious and public execution ignited a massive manhunt for the deranged killer, with the FBI releasing grainy images of a college-aged man wearing dark clothing, sunglasses and a hat.
The alleged shooter, described by prosecutors as holding “leftist ideology” and being “radicalized” online, was cuffed 33 hours later — and was handed over to authorities by his own father.
A disturbing text chain disclosed in Robinson’s indictment shows him telling his trans partner that he had been planning the brazen slaying for “a bit over a week.”
Robinson was charged with aggravated murder and other offenses, and could face the death penalty under Utah law — a punishment publicly supported by President Trump, a close friend of Kirk.
Utah is one of five states that still use a firing squad as a method of capital punishment.
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