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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Tyler Robinson Judge Unseals 'Inconclusive' ATF Report | Crime Alert 04.17.26

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

An unsealed ATF report reveals a bullet fragment could not be conclusively matched to Tyler Robinson's gun due to damage sustained in Charlie Kirk's shooting. Athena Strand's mother took the stand in the second week of sentencing for FedEx driver who admitted to kidnapping and murdering the young girl. Ohio firefighter accused of responding to blaze he set to conceal the murder of a family friend. Sydney Silvagni reports.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human.

0:04.5

Crime Alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News now.

0:08.3

I'm Sidney.

0:10.1

We begin in Utah, where a judge has unsealed a ballistics report in the high-profile

0:14.8

assassination case of Tyler Robinson.

0:17.7

Robinson is accused of gunning down Charlie Kirk during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University in September 2025, allegedly perched on a rooftop where he fired a single fatal shot from his grandfather's mouser rifle into a crowd of 3,000 people.

0:34.7

Counting or not counting on a're not going to gain by this.

0:39.5

Oh my God.

0:40.5

Go, run, run.

0:42.2

The unsealed ATF report clarifies that while physical damage to a recovered bullet fragment

0:48.1

prevented a conclusive match to the rifle's barrel, a spent 30-06 cartridge case found on that rooftop was positively identified

0:56.4

as having been fired from Robinson's weapon. Investigators also noted prone position

1:01.7

impressions in the gravel where the shooter allegedly laid in weight. Furthermore, separate testing

1:07.0

reportedly found Robinson's DNA on the weapon, a towel, and several rounds of ammunition.

1:13.0

Perhaps most chilling are the inscriptions found on those rounds. During a press conference,

1:17.8

Governor Spencer Cox read the messages that investigators say were engraved on the casings.

1:23.2

Investigators noted inscriptions that had been engraved on casings found with the rifle.

1:28.3

Inscriptions on a fired casing read,

1:32.3

Notices, Bulges, capital O-W-O, what's this question mark?

1:38.3

Inscriptions on the three unfired casings read,

1:41.3

Hey, fascist, exclamation point, catch exclamation point.

1:46.5

Up arrow symbol, right arrow, and symbol, and three down arrow symbols.

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