Suspected Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinsons ATF ballistics report unsealed by Utah Judge

The Utah judge overseeing the case against Charlie Kirk’s accused assassin Tyler Robinson has unsealed a ballistics report from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that could not conclusively match a bullet fragment to the suspected murder weapon but confirmed a match with the spent casing.Prosecutors have alleged that separate testing found DNA consistent with Robinson’s on the gun, on the towel and on three of the four rounds inside.The report’s conclusions had already been made public in prior court proceedings, but the document itself is now available from the court, and it includes some new details.The tested material includes a “deformed/damaged” piece of the bullet jacket as well as four lead fragments.It was attached, in part, as an exhibit alongside a defense motion filed under seal on Jan.9, asking the judge to block the government from further testing until a defense expert had a chance to examine and photograph the evidence.Judge Tony Graf ruled that there was no basis to keep the filing classified, finding that it did not contain any “private or inflammatory information.”An appendix to the ATF report explained that “inconclusive” findings mean that was “an examiner’s opinion that there is an insufficient quality and/or quantity of individual characteristics to identify or exclude.”Two law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation told Fox News last month that the reason the ATF was unable to match the bullet to the rifle is because when the bullet impacted Kirk’s body it hit bone and broke on impact. Experts said this is not uncommon.“It is not a win for the defense,” said retired FBI supervisory agent Jason Pack.

“It is simply a gap the prosecution is now working to address by bringing in the FBI with more advanced technology.”Ballistics are rarely the only piece of evidence in a homicide case, he added.And the inconclusive finding only applied to the fragment, not the ca...