EXCLUSIVE: Homeowner who captured alleged Charlie Kirk shooter on surveillance camera speaks out

OREM, Utah (ABC4) — Following the arrest of Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Utahn suspected of shooting and killing Charlie Kirk, the homeowner who captured the suspected shooter on camera walking through his neighborhood is speaking out.

The homeowner, who spoke to ABC4.com on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that it was his surveillance camera that captured the alleged shooter limping as he entered UVU campus.

“We believe that right before the shooting happened, this is how he entered the college,” he said. The first video shows who investigators believe to be Robinson walking across the road in front of the home.

The homeowner has lived on this street with his family his whole life. “It’s been in my family for the past 80 to 90 years, and it’s all family on this street,” he said. “This is where I grew up. We were here before they even started building at the college.”

This event has had a profound effect on the neighborhood. “It’s affected everybody,” the homeowner said. “It’s just a shock, you know? It’s just different… This is a quiet neighborhood, and for something to happen that goes worldwide, it’s just… We’re old town people, you know, and it’s just different.”

Students often walk in the neighborhood to get to campus. “We have students who walk by, if I’m doing yard work, the students will stop and say, ‘Hey, you need some help?’ You know, they’re willing to help. They’re really good kids,” he explained.

Because of that, the suspect didn’t stand out to him. “When I looked at my camera, and I first had seen the guy limping, I thought, oh, there’s something wrong with that guy’s leg. I didn’t think nothing of it, but then when my son went through our camera, he noticed it, and he picked up on it right away.”

That’s when he contacted the ATF, and the footage was given to the FBI and the SBI. He said he has the camera just in case, but he doesn’t regularly check it. His camera caught the alleged shooter a second time, after the shooting happened.

“It shows him in that field, because I believe he probably popped up over there, come up the hill from where we feel that the gun was dropped. He ran up there, run over the hill and then run down that path, that dirt path, and that’s where we see him right here, is in the field,” he explained, pointing and gesturing to the areas he was speaking about.

Though it’s affected the whole neighborhood, it hasn’t changed how he feels about his home.

“As far as safety and everything, I feel the same, because I feel that the alleged shooter was here for one reason and one reason only. He wasn’t here to harm others. He was just here to harm the person he did, which is sad,” the homeowner said. “And as far as the neighborhood, it’s still quiet, calm, except for the commotion that goes on right now.”