Candace Owens has raised fresh questions about a 2022 car crash video involving Tyler Robinson, the suspect accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Owens focused her scrutiny not on the footage’s content but on the circumstances surrounding how it became publicly available years after it was recorded.
She credited YouTuber Zach Costello with prompting her line of inquiry, saying his analysis of Robinson’s body language sent her thinking in a different direction entirely.
Costello had observed similarities between Robinson’s hand and finger positioning in the campus footage and his posture in the 2022 crash recording, suggesting it could help identify him.
Owens said her reaction to Costello’s observation diverged sharply, as she became preoccupied with why the footage existed and who had retained it.
“The footage itself is now exceedingly problematic,” Owens stated. “Why and who collected and stored this footage?”
She questioned how a routine traffic incident involving what she described as a then-unknown 19-year-old could resurface through Scripps News so soon after Robinson became a named suspect.
“Who in Utah was like, I happen to have this footage from 2022 that I’ve been holding on to of this random, unknown 19-year-old Tyler Robinson, and I’m choosing to release it to a publication that no one has ever heard of,” Owens said.
She drew a parallel to what she described as the repeated use of maroon shirts in news coverage of Robinson, suggesting media outlets may have been deliberately shaping public perception of his appearance.
“Every news organization was showing us pictures of Tyler in a maroon shirt,” she said, adding that Robinson “normally wore blue shirts” and that the pattern appeared designed to implant a specific image in the public mind.
Owens went further, suggesting the 2022 crash footage may have been held deliberately and that someone may have coached an individual to mimic Robinson’s distinctive walking style for cameras.
She pointed to a New York Post report that described Robinson as wearing “an eerily similar hat and sunglasses” in the crash footage compared to what he wore while allegedly evading authorities following Kirk’s death.
“Wow. How crazy that this footage emerged and he’s in the same hat and sunglasses imprinting upon the public mind that this is our guy,” Owens said, making clear she viewed the similarity as suspicious rather than coincidental.
She also raised the question of Utah data retention rules, suggesting that footage from a minor traffic incident should have been deleted within 60 days unless someone specifically requested it be preserved.
Owens invited viewers and listeners with inside knowledge to contact her, saying, “If you have information as to how that took place, who held onto that footage, why they held onto that footage… please reach out to us.”
She closed her remarks by floating the possibility of a blackmail angle or involvement by someone connected to Robinson, while acknowledging she was speculating without presenting supporting evidence.
Robinson remains accused of killing Kirk, and no claims made by Owens in her broadcast constitute established legal findings or verified evidence in the ongoing criminal case.
