In this alternate-universe scenario, Brian Harpole, longtime security director for public speaker Charlie Kirk, has come forward with chilling details about the night Kirk was fatally shot during an event at a fictionalized Utah Valley University gathering. His account raises disturbing questions — not only about what happened, but about what should have happened.
According to Harpole, police officials had repeatedly assured his team that all elevated positions, including the venue’s rooftop, would be fully secured for the event. “They told us those angles were covered,” he said. “We were operating under the belief that no one could access the high points without authorization.”
But in this imagined timeline, that assurance turned out to be false.
Harpole reveals that when gunfire erupted, he and two members of his staff rushed toward the rear of the building — only to find that not a single officer had been assigned to the roof. The access door was unlocked. The ladder was unmonitored. And the vantage point where investigators later found shell casings had been left completely unprotected.
“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Harpole says in the fictional narrative. “It was the exact scenario we warned them about.”
He is referring to a series of security briefs he filed in the days leading up to the event. Internal documents, described by individuals close to the team, show Harpole specifically flagged:
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Rooftop access points
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Drone interference risks
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Staffing shortfalls after late-hour assignments were cut
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A blind spot in surveillance coverage
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Ineffective perimeter sweeps before doors opened
All concerns, he says, were either dismissed or delayed.
In this alternate storyline, the most haunting detail doesn’t come from what happened during the attack—but what happened the night before. Harpole claims he emailed a final warning titled:
“PRIMARY VULNERABILITY — ELEVATED ATTACK POSITION.”
The message reportedly went unanswered.
Witnesses described seeing Harpole after the incident: pacing, shaking, replaying every step of the night in his mind as emergency teams flooded the venue. But the moment that stays with him most is the realization that the one gap he fought hardest to close became the entry point for the fatal shot.
“Charlie trusted us,” he says quietly. “And we trusted them.”
The fictional account ends with Harpole demanding a full review — not to assign blame, but to ensure that no future team walks into a venue believing they’re protected when they aren’t.
“This wasn’t just a failure,” he says. “It was a preventable tragedy.”