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Tonight we appreciate the media and the partnership we have with you in helping us to get information out to the public so that we can uh we can catch this assassin and and hold him accountable. Uh we uh we are going to uh to share *** portion of *** video. And that that we have of the uh of the the the suspect as well as some new stills um those have already been released, but we want to make sure that they get as much attention as possible so that we can get help from uh from the public in uh in tracking down uh this uh this evil human being. So we're, we're going to, uh, we're going to queue up the video right now, show that I've asked uh Commissioner Beau Mason if he would narrate to you what is happening in this video. Thank you, Governor Bo Mason, commissioner for the Utah Department of Public Safety. If you look up to the top left, you'll see the the building where the shooter was proned out in the top left corner. We'll go ahead and play that video and I'll narrate it as we walk through that. So here you see the suspect ran behind that upper. Upper building, he's come out on the right, moves to this far right corner. As he does, he's going to climb off the edge. And then dropped down to the ground as he did that, he left some palm impressions. There's some smudges, some places we're looking to collect DNA. There's *** shoe imprint where we believe the suspect is clearly identified as wearing Converse tennis shoes. Again, we'll replay that again so you can get another view of that. It's important to note his black t-shirt, his black pants, um, and there appears to be some white on the soles of those Converse tennis shoes. Those are all identifiable items that we're looking for in the stills that are going to follow this, you're going to see *** very distinctive t-shirt with an American flag and appears to have an eagle on it. There's also *** baseball cap with *** triangle on it and *** pair of sunglasses, all distinctive, all things that we would ask the public to look for and try to identify if they know someone who has those items who has been seen wearing those items. We're looking for all that information. Here you see the suspect after dropping off the building. He moved around across this grass area, around the parking lot. We're gonna pan to the right. After he crosses the street, this is where he moves over into the wooded area. This is the video evidence that we utilize to track his movements and to locate that firearm in that wooded area following the discovery of this evidence. Good. You want to go to the Steels? So here's the still photographs I mentioned. These have been enhanced, so these are slightly different than what we introduced earlier. Please pay close attention to the t-shirt, like I said, very distinctive with that American flag and that eagle, the hat with the triangle and the sunglasses. If you go to the next picture please. The backpack as well, um, all identifying features that we're hoping the public can help us identify and lead us to this suspect. Next picture. And again there's *** better picture of the hat with that triangle logo and again the t-shirt, blue jeans, and you get *** good look at those Converse tennis shoes as well. We have pushed these out. We'll continue to push these out and we just ask for the public's cooperation through the public. The tips that have been coming in are what are giving us our next leads and enabling us to continue to further this investigation. We've had great cooperation from the public and we're continuing to ask for that as we move forward. Thank you and I'll turn time back over to Governor Cox. Thank you so much, uh, Commissioner Mason. I want to, uh, I want to thank Director Patel and his team. It's great to have them on the ground with us tonight. Uh, we've had several briefings and, uh, he's had an opportunity to, uh, to walk the crime scene. We, uh, we appreciate our, our local law enforcement here again we have, uh, we have Mike Smith. Who is the uh the county sheriff here we have all of our local uh local chiefs of police that are here as well, all working hand in hand with the state and with the FBI as we uh as we move forward with this investigation. Now, um, I just give you *** little more, we will not be taking any questions at this time. uh, we, we're giving you the latest information we have being as transparent with everything that we have, um, but I do want to share *** couple of things that I think are important. Um, we, uh, we cannot do our job without the public's help right now. We, uh, the public has answered our call for action so far. We've received more than 7000 leads and tips. I I would just note that the FBI hasn't received this many digital media tips from the public since the Boston Marathon bombing. This case also highlights the dedication of our law enforcement community. We have 20 federal, state, and local law enforcement partners that are working shoulder to shoulder to find the person who committed this horrific crime. With their support, we've completed nearly 200 interviews, as, as you're aware, as has already been reported, the FBI is offering *** $100,000 reward for information leading to the identification and arrest of the person responsible for the murder of Charlie Kirk. We also continue to implore the public to support this investigation and come forward with any information. We are truly hopeful that this video and new photos will lead to uh to even more tips. We are processing we have an incredible team, *** state and federal team working together to process those tips. We're going out in tandem to interview any potential person of interest or suspects, but we need again, we need as many as much help as we can possibly get. Any videos or photos that you might have, the public should be submitted to our digital media tip line, which is www.fbi.gov/Utahvalley shooting all lower case. Again, that is FBI.gov. Forward slash Utah Valley shooting all lower case. You can also provide general tips about the shooting by calling 1-800-CALL-FBI. That's 1-800-CALL-FBI or at tips.fbi.gov. This is, I would just say this is not just *** local matter here in Utah. We have people all over the country that are helping to bring this perpetrator to justice for Charlie Kirk. And his family. I will just add as well that as was mentioned, there is, there is *** lot of forensic evidence that is being processed right now at at both the state lab and the federal labs and federal lab in in on the east coast. So we, we are working in tandem together. I, I would also just add *** word of note for, for those uh for those people who are spending so much time on, on social media, um. I think Charlie said it best that when, when things get, get bad, we should put our phones down and uh spend *** little time with our, our families. There is *** tremendous amount of disinformation. Uh, we are tracking uh our um our. Our, our team, the, the state team and uh I'm sure the federal team as well. What we're seeing is our adversaries want violence um uh China, we have bots from Russia, China, all over the uh the world that are trying to instill disinformation and. Encourage violence. I would encourage you to ignore those, to turn off those streams and to spend *** little more time with our families. We desperately need some healing. We'll have more to say about that in the days and weeks to come. More than anything, we are going to catch this person. Last thing I will just say is we've been working with our attorneys, getting, getting everything that we need affidavits ready so that we can pursue the death penalty in this case, and that will happen here in the state of Utah. Again, to the public, to those who are grieving, thank you for your prayers. I know we are feeling those prayers. I know the Kirk family is feeling those prayers as well. We pray that God will bless our nation at this very dark time. We can start healing by finding this perpetrator and holding him accountable, and we need your help to do that. Thank you.