Charlie Kirk Shooting Mystery Deepens: Witness Says FBI Demanded He Delete Disturbing Video

The death of right-wing US commentator and activist Charlie Kirk has raised questions about the circumstances surrounding his assassination. The mystery seems to deepen as a witness to the murder claims that the FBI told them to delete their footage of the incident.

Ryne Simmons, who claims to be a witness, shared in a video that he was ordered by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation to delete his footage of Kirk's assassination. Simmons explained that he sent the video to the government agency, believing that he would be helping their inquiry. Instead, Simmons was told to erase the video from his device as it could trigger PTSD.

FBI agents would also call him later on to confirm if he had deleted the footage. Simmons said he has the footage saved and archived on his hard drive instead.

'So originally when I sent this video to the FBI for tips, I thought I was doing a service and, you know, to Charlie and helping out,' said Simmons in the video, adding that he 'was talking to someone at the local field office there in my local state and then it jumped up a few levels then I was talking to someone on like, the national level. That person had called me back and they had said, 'because this was your friend, I think it's best that you erase the video from your phone 'cause it's just gonna give you PTSD' and then called another time to ask if I'd erased it.'

'That was the first time that I felt like it was even right to post these videos that was on my other account that is gone, this was removed after five years of building it,' Simmons continued. 'So I got a call back and was asked to confirm that it was gone and again, that's when I started sharing, posting, and saving on much-many different hard drives in many different places.'

Doxxing Efforts by Right-Wing Groups Fall Through

The impact of Kirk's assassination in September led to organised efforts by right-wing political or activist groups to expose critics of the late pundit who led the Turning Point. However, in a report by Salon, the efforts to expose critics of Kirk have since fallen through, leading many to question what has been done to the data that was collected from those efforts.

Most of these organised efforts have been dark, save for the inquiries made by the federal government. The biggest of these is the Charlie Kirk Data Foundation. Run anonymously, the entity claims to have collected tens of thousands of entries supposedly from those who it sees as critics of Kirk.

The group's site is currently down and has been down for weeks, until it eventually went dark permanently in late September, according to the report. Their last update on 14 September, they claimed to have collected 63,648 entries from people they describe as being 'happy about an innocent man's death.' Also supposedly found in the data were details of critics of fellow right-wing commentators in the wake of Kirk's assassination.

Since then, the Charlie Kirk Data Foundation has turned into another right-wing account on X (formerly Twitter). The account has attacked those who paid tribute to George Floyd, reposting clips of President Donald Trump, and attacking perceived 'enemies', such as what they call the 'trans terror cell network.'