New surveillance footage shows the gunman who fatally shot Charlie Kirk jumping off the roof and escaping in the moments after opening fire.
In the footage, the suspect could be seen running across the roof of the Lossee Center at Utah Valley University in the seconds after the carnage.
Once he reaches the edge, the suspect could then be seen climbing down and jumping onto the ground – leaving behind a palm print and a shoe print from a pair of Converse sneakers.
He then runs from the building and starts strolling with the crowd as he casually walks toward a street at the edge of campus, where police say he ducked into a wooded area, from where investigators have found a high-powered rifle.
The suspect then apparently fled into a residential neighborhood.
But Beau Mason, the head of Utah’s Department Public Safety, said officials ‘have no idea’ about the suspect’s identity or where he may be located.
Authorities are now asking the public to be on the lookout for the suspect, noting he had a distinctive t-shirt and a baseball cap with a triangle on it.
The video was released during a press conference on Thursday night where FBI director Kash Patel stood in silence as the manhunt for the killer reached the end of its second day.
New surveillance footage shows the gunman who fatally shot Charlie Kirk jumping off the roof and escaping in the moments after opening fire
In the footage, the suspect could be seen running across the roof of the Lossee Center at Utah Valley University
Utah’s Republican Governor Spencer Cox presented a video of the shooter fleeing the scene on Thursday night and urged the public to help track down the killer.
Patel, who flew to Utah for the briefing and to oversee the search, did not take questions or address the public.
‘We cannot do our job without the public’s help right now,’ Cox said, adding that authorities have already received over 7,000 tips and have conducted more than 200 interviews.
In the hours after the murder, Patel wrongly said a suspect was in custody while critics have blasted him for gutting the FBI’s leadership in Salt Lake City.
As an indication of the investigation’s shortcomings, a top public safety official in Utah said they ‘have no idea’ whether the assassin was even in the state.
During Thursday’s press conference, Patel was mocked for appearing like a deer in headlights.
‘Don’t worry guys Kash Patel is clearly on the case,’ the person wrote on X. ‘I mean look at how he checks every last nook and cranny in the press conference room to see if the assassin might actually be there with them.’
The unidentified gunman – whom the FBI says ‘appears to be of college age’ – opened fire from the roof of the Losee Center, where a shadowy figure was seen running just moments after the gunfire erupted.
The Losee Center is located 200 yards away from where Kirk was debating with college students and locals about political issues. He had just answered a question about gun violence when he was shot.
The gunman is seen jumping down from the rooftop before running into a nearby neighborhood
The FBI released screengrabs of surveillance footage of a person of interest in Charlie Kirk’s assassination during the manhunt
Local police in Utah released different angles of the subject walking in a stairwell at Utah Valley University
Charlie Kirk’s assassin was dressed ‘all in black, long pants, black bag, aviator-style sunglasses with a long gun’ as he opened fire from the roof of a Utah Valley University campus building, chilling dispatch audio reveals
Charlie Kirk, a conservative influencer, was shot dead on Wednesday at the age of 31 while speaking at Utah Valley University
A manhunt continued Wednesday night for the unidentified shooter after officials confirmed two men they had taken into custody were not involved in the shooting
The ‘person of interest’ in Kirk’s assassination was dressed in dark clothes with aviator sunglasses, a black mask, and was carrying a long rifle. He was also wearing Converse shoes, which left impressions as he fled.
Authorities recovered a high-powered, bolt-action rifle that they believe was used in the attack from the woods.
The FBI has released images of a person of interest in the assassination and asked the public for help identifying them.
The individual appears to have been wearing a patriotic t-shirt that reads ‘land of the free, home of the brave’.
Descriptions, broadcast on public safety scanner audio obtained by the Daily Mail, included a man ‘wearing all black, black long gun, black tactical helmet, a black mask, possibly wearing a tactical vest and jeans,’ and ‘shoulder length hair, aviator glasses, black bag and a long gun’.
As panicked students fled the courtyard, George Zinn, 71, was filmed being dragged away by police with his pants around his ankles, yelling that he had the right to remain silent.
‘He claimed he did it. He started yelling it. But he didn’t even have a gun,’ UVU student Sawyer Carr, 18, told Daily Mail.
Carr was in the front row to Kirk’s right, and said Zinn was a couple of rows behind him.
‘I heard a gun fire. Then Charlie’s neck dropped back, he started gushing blood, and he just folded over,’ Carr said.
Senior officers repeatedly cut in on the countywide radio to warn that dispatch was ‘overwhelmed’ with all the calls coming in.
Amid the confusion, it wasn’t until about 12:56pm that an officer radioed he had searched and cleared the second floor of the Losee Center, the building where the shooter is now believed to have fired his deadly, single shot, about 200 yards away from Kirk’s tent at the campus amphitheater.
It took another five minutes to reach the roof, according to county dispatcher radio recordings.
