FBI and Utah Department of Public Safety officials held a news conference in Orem after the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University.
Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday while speaking to students at Utah Valley University.
Officials provide new details on the suspect search and investigation.
According to a local investigator, officials tracked the killer from an hour before the shooting until he jumped off the campus building and fled into a nearby neighborhood.
According to Utah official Beau Mason:
Through all that work last night, we were able to make a few breakthroughs. We were able to track the movements of the shooter.
Starting at 11: 52 AM, the subject arrived on campus, shortly away from campus. We have tracked his movements onto the campus, through the stairwells, up to the roof, across the roof to a shooting location.
After the shooting, we were able to track his movements as he moved to the other side of the building, jumped off of the building and fled off of the campus and into a neighborhood. Our investigators have worked through those neighborhoods, contacting anybody they can with doorbell cameras, witnesses, and have thoroughly worked through those communities, trying to identify any leads.
We do have good video footage of this individual. We are not going to release that at this time. We are working through some technologies and some ways to identify this individual. If we are unsuccessful, we will reach out to you as the media and we will push that publicly to help us identify them.
But we are confident in our abilities right now, and we would like to move forward in a manner that keeps everyone safe and moves this process appropriately.
FBI official Robert Bohls then spoke, saying they have good footage of the killer and that they also found his rifle in the woods.
The killer appears to be college-aged.
WATCH:
The FBI just released an image of a person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk:
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