{"id":755497,"date":"2026-07-10T22:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/755497\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:26:10","slug":"tyler-robinson-case-defense-attacks-ballistics-evidence-as-preliminary-hearing-wraps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/755497\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Robinson case: Defense attacks ballistics evidence as preliminary hearing wraps up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An emotional silence fell over the courtroom Friday as prosecutors played an enhanced video compilation showing the moments leading up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/accused-charlie-kirk-assassin-tyler-robinson-fights-back-prosecutors-sprawling-case-comes-focus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination<\/a> during Day 5 of Tyler Robinson\u2019s preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk\u2019s widow, Erika Kirk, and his mother, Kathy Kirk, cried and leaned into one another as the video played. Both women hugged and held tissues while seated with family, friends and supporters in the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy Kirk later turned to embrace her husband, Robert Kirk, with a tissue held to her face. Erika Kirk\u2019s sister, Tonya, reached over to comfort her with a hand on her back. <\/p>\n<p>At one point, an investigator seated with the family retrieved a trash can for used tissues.<\/p>\n<p>The courtroom was largely silent as the video played. Robinson did not appear to watch the video with the monitor at his table turned off, and he appeared to look down and straight ahead rather than toward the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Friday, Judge Tony Graf sanctioned media members after an exhibit was inadvertently shown and broadcast during Thursday\u2019s proceedings. Graf said he did not want to \u201crush or make snap decisions\u201d before ruling that no further exhibits would be shown for the rest of the day, though the final video compilation was later allowed as an exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An emotional silence fell over the courtroom Friday as prosecutors played an enhanced video compilation showing the moments&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,4,27304,829,2413,3,21,19,22,20,25,24,965],"class_list":["post-755497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-breaking-news","tag-current-news","tag-latest-news","tag-national-news","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}