Above is a followup video from the earlier one I posted about the shooter being located on the upper-right side of Charlie; that original 20 min video has been removed from X...apparently there were complaints about it being too graphic.
I know this is not a popular view on this board, and I admit my expertise in examining gunshot wounds is up close and after the fact, but IMO, I fear something is wrong with the standard MSM narrative:
1) I cannot find a single credible news source reporting Charlie was wearing a bullet proof vest. Maybe someone here can locate a police/FBI report confirming it. The charging document states the bullet struck him in the neck with the trajectory passing close to observers standing near him; no mention of ricocheting off a bullet proof vest. (
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/TJR-Information-1.pdf)2) The alleged shooting trajectory was downward and came slightly from Charlie's left. The alleged weapon was a Mauser 98, a military grade weapon. 8mm FMJ bullets don't ricochet off body armor; they significantly disrupt the outer surface layers and can be somewhat deflected if striking along the edges, but I've seen nothing in any video of a disruptive effect in Charlie's tee shirt to show this has happened. (There are plenty of videos on Youtube about shooting at various bullet proof vests with high velocity rifles.)
3) Charlie's body motion-momentum in the shooting carried him to his left and forward, not backward and to his right.
4) No videos, including side videos, show a corresponding second wound for the complete entrance-exit wound scenario...not that there isn't a second wound, although entrance wounds can be very small. 8mm Mauser/30.06 shootings are most often through and through wounds; in the neck there should be a blowout injury in the back of the neck with evidence of debris/bullet on the white canopy immediately behind him; I doubt a vertebrae could completely stop it. Even if you want to believe in a deflected bullet off a B-P vest, a downward trajectory converted to a near vertical one to take the bullet thru the neck into the skull would involve some unimaginable physics IMO.
5) It is unbelievable that the shooting scene was not protected as a crime scene; the tent was quickly dismantled and the site significantly altered shortly thereafter. If they don't have a bullet in their possession (from inside the body), there's a major problem for the prosecution.
Fire away when ready, Gridley.