The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the ammunition cartridges found with the bolt-action rifle used to kill conservative activist Charlie Kirk had transgender and anti-fascist sentiments written on them.
The rifle was found on Wednesday night in a wooded area where the FBI thinks the killer ran away after the attack.
It was covered in a towel and still had three empty bullet cartridges in the chamber. The Journal said that each of them had “expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology” carved into them, citing an internal law enforcement alert and a person who was familiar with the investigation.
CNN confirmed the reporting, but they instead chose to describe the ammo as being “scrawled with cultural phrases.”
Robert Bohls, the head of the FBI’s Salt Lake City office, told reporters this morning that officers found “a high-powered bolt action rifle” in “a wooded area where the shooter had fled.”
Bohls added that the FBI lab will look at the firearm.
