America's blood-soaked campuses just got a new stain, and it's redder than a Bolshevik's banner.

Last Wednesday, September 10, 2025, conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, dropped dead on the stage at Utah Valley University in Orem, a single bullet ripping through his neck as he rallied thousands of students against the woke horde.

In the screaming pandemonium that followed — kids trampling each other, sirens wailing like banshees — a 71-year-old political pest named George Zinn lunged into the spotlight, pants sagging to his ankles, howling like a deranged prophet: "I shot him, now shoot me!"

Cops dragged the wailing fool away in cuffs, his cleft chin thrust defiantly as the crowd bayed for blood, convinced they'd nabbed the killer.

But Zinn wasn't the trigger-puller. He was the distraction, a self-proclaimed martyr shielding the shadows where the real monster lurked.

Court documents unsealed Monday paint Zinn as a grotesque sideshow in this tragedy.

Moments after the shot cracked the air at 12:15 p.m., Zinn barreled toward officers, unarmed but unhinged, bellowing his false confession.

When grilled about the gun, he stonewalled, "I am not going to tell you."

Hauled off, he doubled down, "Just shoot me."

In custody, after demanding a lawyer, the truth dribbled out like bad moonshine.

"I had not, in fact, shot Kirk but had made the unfounded claims 'to draw attention from the real shooter,'" the docs state verbatim.

Later, at a hospital treating his mystery ailment, Zinn gloated to cops, "Glad he said he shot the individual so the real suspect could get away."

He craved martyrdom "for the person who was shot," documents add, his words a cryptic cocktail of delusion and defiance.

This stunt scorched precious minutes in the manhunt, hogging resources as blood pooled on stage.

"His initial comments delayed the investigation into Kirk’s killing and needlessly took up law enforcement resources at a critical juncture in the probe," police affidavits hammer home.

Zinn's rap sheet reads like a libertarian fever dream gone sour: a "gadfly" with decades of trespassing busts at rallies, film fests, and protests.

"Almost every political event you can think of, there was always George somewhere in the background, listening," Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill told the Salt Lake Tribune.

Gill, who's prosecuted Zinn multiple times, shrugged him off as "a person who can be odd, and has those kinds of sometimes odd behavior challenges... more of a gadfly than anything else."

But odd turned ugly in 2013, when Zinn menaced the Salt Lake City Marathon —days after Boston's jihadist slaughter — with threats to bomb the finish line.

He drew a year in the slammer for that stunt, his "politically conservative, leaning libertarian" leanings twisted into terror.

Zinn's circus act bought time for the phantom sniper.

Surveillance caught a figure leaping from a rooftop perch, sprinting into woods where feds unearthed a Mauser bolt-action rifle wrapped in a towel, DNA screaming Tyler Robinson's name.

Bullet casings nearby bore taunts etched in brass: "Hey fascist! Catch!"

A screwdriver on the roof matched Robinson's prints.

The 22-year-old Washington County dropout, shacked up with his male-to-female transgender partner, surrendered Thursday after his own father ratted him out—tipping off a relative he'd bragged about the hit.

No ties to Zinn, but feds probe an "extended network" that "aided and abetted" the plot.

Motive? FBI Director Kash Patel brands Robinson "radicalized online," hooked on "leftist" venom from Discord chats where he joked about stashed rifles and engraved ammo.

The Trump White House, sans hard proof, blasts it as "an organized left-wing terror plot."

Robinson faces formal charges today in Utah court on aggravated murder, obstruction of justice, and felony discharge of a firearm causing serious injury, per the Utah County Attorney's Office.

He's clammed up, but his seized devices and partner's interviews yield "scores" of leads, Patel said Monday.

Over 7,000 public tips flood in, with forensics tying Robinson's palm and forearm prints to the scene.

Zinn is currently being held without bail on his felony obstruction rap, plus sexual exploitation of a minor — 20+ child abuse images unearthed on his phone, including toddlers in torment, explicit texts sealing his doom.

In the end, as Kirk's blood dries on that Utah stage, remember this: The left's venom—fascist slurs, terror cheers—didn't pull the trigger, but it loaded the gun.