Ex-FBI Official on CNN Casts Doubt on New Person of Interest: Initial Description From FBI ‘Very Inconsistent’ from Photo

A former FBI official cast doubt on the latest person of interest in Charlie Kirk’s killing, citing inconsistencies with previous descriptions of the individual.

Kirk was shot and killed Wednesday after during a Turning Point USA event in Utah Valley University. That same day, two potential suspects were apprehended but later released. On Thursday, the FBI released an image of a new person of interest, who was described as a college-age adult.

Appearing on CNN Wednesday afternoon, former FBI assistant director Chris Swecker pointed out one particular detail that had been bothering him:

Well, there’s one thing that I think is very inconsistent and it bothers me, and that is that photo that you’re looking at right now. That’s the photo of this guy blending in. The description that the FBI put out, the description you just heard on that radio, was a description of someone who was in tactical gear — fully kitted out, it sounded like. Now granted, he could have hit all that stuff, but it hasn’t been found.

Swecker then went on to detail the legal ramifications that such an inconsistency could lead to.

“So I’m not sure that you know there’s an inconsistency there that could actually come back later at a trial to be what I would call exculpatory material,” he added.

At the time of Swecker’s appearance, Utah law enforcement had just postponed a press conference due to “rapid developments” in the manhunt for Kirk’s killer. Swecker predicted that a person of interest had been identified, but he remained on the loose.

Watch above via CNN.