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The Killing of Charlie Kirk · source record · webpage

The last person to question Charlie Kirk describes the moment as 'visceral'

Vera Drymon; Jon Haworth; ABC News · 2025

AI-verified citationSRC-ABC-KOZAK-2025
identifier / locator
September 12, 2025
url
https://abcnews.go.com/US/person-question-charlie-kirk-describes-moment-visceral/story?id=125505153
verification note
Fetched directly 2026-08-25; quotes verbatim.
reliability notes
  • First-person recollection of a sound impression; lay localization of impulse sounds is known to be unreliable.

Evidence drawn from this source

Supports· weakKRK-E031

The closest eyewitness thought the shot came from feet behind his head

what the source states
"Kozak says when he heard the shot, he thought the gun was five feet behind his head..." He "estimates that he was about 5 to 10 feet away from Kirk" and was "instructed not to touch" the microphone.
what we infer
A proximity impression the device hypothesis leans on; impulse-sound localization by untrained listeners is unreliable (reflections, shockwave-versus-muzzle-blast confusion), so this carries little weight in either direction until native multichannel audio is analyzed (KRK-R009).
limitations
  • Subjective sound localization; no acoustic analysis accompanies it.
Vera Drymon (2025)AI-verified citationKRK-C018