Overview
- Zinn, 71, pleaded no contest to a reduced third-degree obstruction of justice charge and pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.
- Judge Thomas Low imposed concurrent terms of two one-to-15-year sentences for the exploitation counts and zero-to-five years for obstruction.
- Court records say Zinn repeatedly yelled, “I shot him, now shoot me,” in the minutes after Charlie Kirk was killed at Utah Valley University, diverting officers from securing the scene.
- Investigators obtained a warrant for Zinn’s phone and found child sexual abuse material, which he had shared in chats, according to charging documents.
- Prosecutors dropped two exploitation counts as part of the plea agreement, and a separate capital murder case against Tyler James Robinson continues.