Questions For The Eventual Grand Jury

So the shooter could make one clean shot, escaped without a trace, but then decided to leave the gun in the woods where it would be found, and also wrote "transgender ideology" on the bullets?

And it's Kash Patel's FBI saying all of this?

Ok 👍

— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) September 11, 2025

An elite American sharpshooter believes the assassin who fatally shot Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Wednesday was an “internet shooter” and not a trained soldier.
US Army Sgt. Nicholas Ranstad said the unidentified gunman, who remains at largeThursday morning, was…

— Clayton Burns (@ClaytonBurnsPhD) September 11, 2025

An elite American sharpshooter believes the assassin who fatally shot Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Wednesday was an “internet shooter” and not a trained soldier.
US Army Sgt. Nicholas Ranstad said the unidentified gunman, who remains at large Thursday morning, was most likely self-taught and didn’t have any military firearm training.
“They’re probably just an internet shooter, not a sniper or trained soldier,” Ranstad said. …
“The security was super light, no crime at that school. So I guess the threat was low, apparently,” Ranstad told the Daily Mail. “That’s a buffet for someone who wanted to kill someone.”
Ranstad, who holds the record for longest American kill in Afghanistan, described the open-air area where Kirk was set up as a “fishbowl”amid high ground and multi-level buildings. …
UVU Police Chief Jeff Long said the department had six officers working Kirk’s event alongside the activist’s security team and estimated that more than 3,000 people were in attendance.
“We had some plainclothed police officers that were in the crowd as well. We train for these things. You think you have things covered and these things unfortunately happen,” Long told reporters. “You try to get your bases covered and unfortunately, today we didn’t and because of that, we have this tragic incident.”

That’s apparently quoted from the NYPost. I saw a tweet yesterday that claimed 200 yards is nothing for a deer hunter. I’m not a deer hunter, so I don’t take that as read. (But here a former ATF agent says the shot was not beyond the scope of a hunter. Take that as you will.)

All I know is, the shooter was a better shot than me. (Damning with faint praise. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve fired a gun.) And this was deliberate. As someone on MSNBC pointed out yesterday, the shooter knew where to go: what building, what room, what window (or roof. There are reports the shooter was seen jumping off a roof. I assume that’s on video.) And at least had reason to believe he/she would not be interrupted.

As for the “transgender ideology,” what the hell is that? And it’s a bit incongruous there was all this planning, and then the gun was dropped in the woods.

This confusion is normal, but the context is Patel tweeting that a suspect was in custody even as the police (with an FBI agent in the room) announced they had no suspect in custody. Patel had to retract his statement later. (And is now carefully moderating his official tweets. Jackass.) As the suit against the FBI (by fired agents) alleges, Patel worries more about social media than evidence. This could be why the DOJ now has 8 grand jury no bills to its credit. Also:

The fish rots from the head.