If you believe the internet, there’s a new mystery brewing around the Charlie Kirk assassination — and it’s not about who pulled the trigger.
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In a recent breakdown, commentators Baron Coleman and James Li highlighted a series of Google Trends data points suggesting that someone in Washington, D.C. searched terms like “Tyler James Robinson,” “Losee Center,” and “Mauser 98” before the September 10 shooting in Utah.
According to the clip, searches for Robinson — the 22-year-old accused shooter — appeared in D.C. data on September 9, a day before the attack.
Likewise, the Losee Center, the rooftop where the shooting occurred, registered searches in D.C. two days before the event. To their point: either it’s a statistical glitch, or someone in the nation’s capital was looking into this before it happened.
To be clear, there is no confirmed evidence that these searches came from government offices or media insiders. Google Trends normalizes data by region, meaning small numbers of searches can appear magnified in areas with fewer total searches.
Still, the data sparked questions online — especially after some of those trend blips later disappeared from Google’s reports.
So what are we dealing with here — a legitimate digital breadcrumb, or a coincidental cluster of meaningless data points?
Coleman and Li contend the pattern is too odd to ignore. The rifle term “Mauser 98” reportedly saw a spike in searches from D.C. on August 27, weeks before the shooting — the only time that month it showed up in local results.
“Once is happenstance,” Li says. “Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”
Skeptics, on the other hand, say the math does not add up. Google’s data samples are small, rounded, and subject to fluctuations. A few searches from random users or journalists researching weapons could easily explain the spikes.
And as Li notes, anyone trying to replicate his searches later could not — Google’s results no longer show the same hits.
That raises questions. Did Google remove the data? Did the Trends algorithm update? Or are people chasing patterns where none exist?
We have seen this before: early data, wild speculation, and a flood of what-ifs that never quite get pinned down. Still, in the age of instant sleuthing, it is easy to see why people are curious — especially when the phrase “D.C. search activity before an assassination” appears in the same sentence.
What do you think? Is this another conspiracy rabbit hole, or a digital trail someone does not want us following? Sound off in the comments — and as always, keep your skepticism holstered but within reach.
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