What we know about the shot that killed Charlie Kirk

The shooter remains connected nan run, arsenic rule enforcement effort to portion together what took spot connected nan day.

A scope of experts person besides chipped successful connected everything from nan benignant of slug utilized to wherever nan shooter was apt standing.

So far, overmuch is speculation, but a image is opening to travel together, moreover if it remains a sketch truthful far.

Authorities judge nan slayer was connected apical of nan tile of 1 of nan assemblage buildings.

After firing nan fatal shot, they jumped down and fled into a adjacent neighbourhood.

CNN believes nan shooter pulled nan trigger atop nan building of nan Losee Centre, astir 135 metres from wherever Kirk was onstage.

An audio forensics expert, analysing nan sound of nan bullet, told CNN it was astir apt fired from astir 150 metres away.

What was nan limb used?

Authorities person recovered a firearm they judge is nan execution weapon.

Its specifications person not officially been released, but CNN quoted a rule enforcement charismatic saying nan weapon is simply a Mauser bolt action .30-06 calibre firearm pinch a long-distance scope.

The charismatic besides said a azygous ammunition casing remained wrong nan bolt mechanism.

The aforementioned audio forensics expert, Rob Maher, said nan slug had been faster than nan velocity of sound, travelling astatine an estimated 800m/s.

That slug could only person travel from a high-powered rifle, he said, not a handgun.

How difficult was nan shot?

Theories person emerged online astir nan slayer being a "professional" marksman of immoderate sort.

However, firearms experts person played down that angle.

"He didn't person to beryllium highly trained arsenic a sniper to make that changeable from 200 yards (180 metres), because 200 yards pinch nan correct firearm and nan correct optics is not that far," erstwhile FBI supervisory typical supplier Dennis Franks told The Independent.

But he besides said hitting a target of that region extracurricular a shooting scope was vastly different to a crowded nationalist setting, requiring a level of accomplishment aliases plain luck.

"To do it nether nan accent of a unrecorded situation, he was either skilful aliases lucky," said Franks.

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