'I Had Enough Of His Hatred': Bombshell Text Thread Between Tyler Robinson & Roommate Read In Court

[0:11] concludes States Exhibit 16. Ms. Hunt. Thank you, Judge. Agent Davis, I asked you yesterday, [0:19] but I want to remind the court and those present, were you physically present at the interview we [0:26] just watched in States Exhibit 16? Yes, I was there. And aside from the court-ordered redactions, [0:38] did it appear to you to be fair and accurate about what you remember that interview that day? Yes, [0:44] I do. During that interview, did Mr. Twiggs, was he shown or referenced certain items of evidence? [0:54] Yes, he was. What types of items of evidence was he shown? It was the text messages between himself [1:01] and Tyler Robinson, a Discord chat messages and a handwritten note. And then we also saw in the [1:12] video, he was also shown the FBI press release photos of the potential suspect. That's correct, yes. [1:20] Have you reviewed all of those items as part of the investigation? Yes, I have. [1:23] You're familiar with them? Yes. All right, I want to put just on the witnesses screen [1:29] what's been marked for identification of States Exhibit 16.1. And for the record, this is, [1:35] this includes the edit that the court, the one edit that the court has previously ordered. Thank you. [1:42] Let me know when you see that on your screen. I see it now. Do you recognize this? [2:11] Yes, I do. What is it? This is a photograph of screenshots of text messages between [2:20] Tyler Robinson and Lance Twiggs. This is a photograph of Lance's phone. So sorry, [2:27] you said photograph, you also said screenshot. Can you can you differentiate or clarify there? [2:32] Yes, sorry. These are photographs directly from Lance's phone. How do you know that? [2:40] In Lance's first interview, he is shown, he's showing the FBI agents these, these text messages, [2:49] describes them to the agents. And at that time, those those, his phone is photographed. And you [2:59] testified, I believe yesterday, that Mr. Twiggs first interview was the morning of September 12th, [3:05] 2025. Is that correct? That's correct. Yes. Were you physically present at that interview? [3:11] No, I was not there. Have you spoken with the officers or agents that that were? [3:16] Yes, I've spoken to one of those agents that was there. And you stated that that first [3:26] September 12th interview of Mr. Twiggs was recorded? [3:30] Yes, audio video recorded. Have you reviewed that recording? Yes, I have. So you stated that [3:35] we're looking in state's exhibit 16.1 at a picture of Mr. Twiggs' phone. Yes. Do you know who took [3:44] these photos? Yes, it was Agent Larson with FBI. Did you speak with Agent Larson and confirm that? I did. [3:53] And you you kind of made reference to this already, but how did Mr. Twiggs initially show [3:57] law enforcement the relevant text messages? Yeah, during that first interview on September 12th, [4:01] he physically shows them the phone and then allows them to photograph the phone. And does he identify [4:13] it as his phone in that interview? Yes, he does. Does he refer to any particular features of the phone [4:19] that allows him to make that identification? The second interview refers to the large crack in the upper [4:26] left screen. So he identifies that from in his second interview that was given on April 20th. And [4:35] according to your review of the recording of his first interview and in speaking with the agents that [4:41] were there, did he have his personal phone with him at the time of the September 12th interview? Yes, [4:48] he did. And was this same text thread that we're seeing in state's exhibit 16.1 shown to him during [4:57] his second interview in, sorry, let me get the date right, April 20th, 2026 at the Utah County [5:05] Attorney's Office that we just observed part of in state's exhibit 16? Yes, it was shown to him. Was [5:15] he asked how Tyler Robinson is is saved in his phone, like as a contact? Yeah, just as Tyler. Without [5:23] saying it, obviously, did he identify Tyler Robinson's phone number? Yes, he did. Did you check the number [5:31] that Mr. Twiggs gave as Tyler Robinson's phone number against law enforcement records? Yes, I did. [5:35] And do they match? Yes, they match. Is state's exhibit 16.1 a fair and accurate representation of [5:42] the text thread between, or the relevant text thread between Mr. Twiggs and Mr. Robinson? Yes, it is. As [5:50] part of the investigation, was a Celebrite extraction performed on Mr. Twiggs' phone? Yes, it was. Did you [5:57] personally review that extraction? Yes, I have. And according to that extraction, did Mr. Robinson and Mr. [6:06] Twiggs exchange text messages on September 10th through 11th, 2025? Yes, they did. What time was [6:14] that first text sent according to the Celebrite extraction? The first text was September 10th [6:21] at 11 p.m. All right, Judge, I would move to admit state's exhibit 16.1 and then pursuant to court order, [6:33] I would move to publish it to the monitors. Mr. Novak? We have no further objections [6:44] beyond those that the court courses are familiar with at this point in time. All right, I'll note the [6:50] standing objections made by defense. Those objections are overruled. The 16.1 is admitted into evidence and [6:59] may be published to the gallery as well as electronically distributed through the camera. All right, [7:10] agent, I want to, I'm not going to go through every single message, but I do want to have you read aloud [7:15] certain portions of them. And I apologize to counsel, these are not actually given a page number. [7:23] I have page numbers, but I'm happy to confer that we're on the same page as we go. So here we're looking [7:30] at page one of state's exhibit 16.1. If you could start, if you could read a little more than halfway [7:40] down where it begins Wednesday, 11 p.m., will you start reading underneath that? Yes. So this would [7:49] have been from Tyler. It says, drop what you're doing, look under your keyboard. And I apologize, [7:55] let me stop you there. How do you know that this, that message would have been from Tyler Robinson? [7:59] That's just, so any of the messages in gray would be from Tyler and message in blue would be from [8:04] from, uh, from Lance. This is where the iPhone, uh, just distinguishes the messages. And also Lance, [8:12] Lance in his interview also acknowledges that who was saying what. And up at the top, [8:19] who do we see that this threat is, is between? Uh, uh, Tyler. All right, sorry to interrupt you. Uh, [8:26] so, so read that again, starting from look under the keyboard. Uh, so, so, uh, after that, [8:33] then Lance responds, he says, what? And then he says, you're joking, right? And then Tyler says, [8:39] fuck, I tried to delete that. We could scroll down to page two and if you can continue reading along. [8:51] Uh, and Tyler says, I'm still okay, my love, but I'm stuck in Orem for a little while longer yet. [8:58] Shouldn't be long until I can come home, but gotta grab my rifle still. To be honest, I had hoped to keep [9:04] this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you. And then Lance replies, [9:11] you weren't the one who did it, right? And Tyler says, I am, I'm sorry. And then Lance says, [9:17] I thought they caught the person. And then Tyler says, no, they grabbed some crazy old dude and [9:24] interrogated someone in similar clothing. I had planned to grab my rifle from the drop point [9:29] shortly after, but most of that side of town got locked down. It's quiet almost enough to get out, [9:35] but there's one vehicle lingering. We could scroll down to page three, continue reading. Uh, [9:44] Lance says, why? And Tyler says, why did I do it? And Lance says, yeah. Tyler says, [9:51] I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can't be negotiated out. If I'm able to grab, to grab my [9:57] rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence going to attempt to retrieve it again. Hopefully they have [10:03] moved on. I haven't seen anything in the news about them finding it. We'll update you shortly. [10:09] Or shortly, we'll update you by midnight. And then Lance says, all right, stay safe. [10:14] How long have you been planning this? Scroll down a little bit, please Kimberly. And Tyler replies, [10:21] a bit over a week, I believe I can get close to it, but there is a squad car parked right by it. [10:27] I think they already swept that spot, but I don't want to chance it. We can scroll down to page four [10:33] and continue reading, uh, about halfway down. I'll, I'll stop you about halfway down. Uh, [10:41] this is while they were spot, but I don't want to chance it while they were parked there. If they'd [10:45] found it, I imagine there would be more commotion. Again, I'm sorry for roping you into all of this. [10:51] You shouldn't have to worry about this. And Lance replies, does anyone else know? Tyler says, [10:58] not to my knowledge. All right, I'll stop you there. Uh, let's move to page five. So this should be [11:04] page four. So just scroll down one, please Kimberly. And if you could read starting, um, sorry, [11:17] Kimberly scroll a bit more down. If you could read, um, I don't know about a one third of the way up. [11:24] That's that starts with guess. Okay. Um, Tyler says, guess, I'm guess I'm just sitting in my car [11:33] watching reels for another hour, hoping this guy fucks off. And continue. And Lance says, [11:40] are you okay still? And Tyler says, yes. Check and spot again. Now we'll sorry. Now we're on page [11:48] six. Continue reading. Uh, we'll update soon. He continues. The squad car was moved further away [11:55] enough that I should be able to move in. I backed off cause I thought I heard footsteps, [12:00] maybe a foot patrol, but the crickets here are so fucking loud. Gonna see if the, if the road closer [12:07] to campus is open so I can drive past and check shit out, probably still closed off though. Getting [12:13] worried hard to know for sure, but I'm not finding my rifle could be in the wrong spot. Lance says, [12:20] do you think they found it? And Tyler says, dunno, they haven't published anything if they have. [12:26] And then Lance says, why did you leave it behind? Oh, sorry. Kimberly, if you could scroll down. [12:37] Originally. Also, does it have a serial number? We could scroll to page seven and I'll continue [12:48] reading. I'll, I'll stop you on this page in a little bit. Okay. Uh, so Tyler continues, uh, I did, [12:57] I D E K if I had, uh, if I had a serial number, but it wouldn't trace to me, I worry about prints. [13:04] I had to leave it in a, in a bush where I changed outfits. Didn't have the ability or time to bring [13:10] it with. And stop there, please. And then if we could go to the next page, page eight. And if you [13:19] could start at the top. Okay. So Lance says, was your change of clothes there or was that also gone? [13:28] Or did you bring those with you originally? Anyway, you could replace the gun or would he notice? [13:36] Then Tyler says, only thing I left was the rifle wrapped in a towel. I'll bet that canine sniffed it out. [13:43] Little snitching bastard. We replaced it. Unlikely. I don't fully know what the gun was [13:48] because it was old as shit and Gramps did some modifying. There was a four digit serial, serial [13:54] on it. God only knows who it's registered to. Hopefully some dead guy who gave it to grandpa. [14:01] And he continues to remember how I was engraving bullets. The fucking messages are mostly a big meme. [14:07] If I see notices, uh, bulge, UWU on Fox news, I might have a stroke. [14:15] And then continue. I'll, I'll stop you in a moment. [14:17] It says, all right, I'm going to have to leave it. That really fucking sucks. [14:21] Let me stop you there. And then if we could go on to the next page, page nine, [14:29] and do you see the, the first blue message we see on page nine? Uh, can you start there? [14:35] Yes. Uh, so Lance says, do you need it for hunting? And Tyler says, no, [14:42] my dad wanted to use it to use a high caliber for the rifle hunt. [14:46] Judging from today, I say Gramps gun does just fine. [14:50] IDK. I think that was a two, a two case scope. Uh, Lance says, geez. And then Tyler says, [15:00] OMW home, uh, 3.5 hours. Lance says, drive safe. And then Tyler says, delete this exchange. [15:08] And I'll stop you right there. And then, sorry, we're on page nine. If we can scroll to page 15. [15:29] And then the second grade message on page 15, if you could start there. [15:36] Okay. So this is Tyler. I'm going to turn myself in willingly. [15:41] One of my neighbors here is a deputy for the sheriff. We hope to keep things sort of quiet here. [15:47] And then I'll stop you there. Okay. And we can remove, uh,