Family of Elderly Utah Man Killed by FBI Releases Statement

“A Utah man who allegedly made threats to Joe Biden was killed during an FBI raid on early Wednesday,” WLTReport previously noted.

BREAKING: FBI Kills Man Who Allegedly Made Threats To Biden

According to the FBI, Robertson allegedly said “he needed to prepare his camouflage and sniper rifle” for Joe Biden’s trip to Utah this week.

FBI Kills Craig Deleeuw Robertson For Making Veil Threats On Social Media About Biden pic.twitter.com/qV4hZEp7cZ

— The Triune Times (@TriuneTimes) August 9, 2023

100 Percent Fed Up noted:

“The FBI in Salt Lake City said the shooting occurred around 6:15 am. local time while special agents attempted to serve arrest and search warrants at a residence in Provo,” ABC News reports.

A federal complaint reportedly said Craig Robertson, the deceased suspect, faced three counts.

The three counts included:

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• Interstate threats
• Threats against the president
• Influencing, impeding and retaliating against federal law enforcement officers by threat

Robertson allegedly threatened to kill Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and officials involved in prosecuting President Trump in numerous social media posts.

The FBI has been very scarce with details regarding the shooting and stated “In accordance with FBI policy, the shooting incident is under review by the FBI’s Inspection Division. As this is an ongoing matter, we have no further details to provide.”

Footage of the moments immediately before Robertson’s death have become public.

A neighbor filmed the encounter showing FBI agents swarming Robertson’s door Wednesday morning.

WATCH:

BREAKING: A neighbor recorded and released a video of the FBI raid on 74-year-old Craig Deleeuw Robertson while serving warrants at 6:15am in Provo, Utah

Robertson was shot and killed in the encounter pic.twitter.com/eVXEJX7pBl

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 10, 2023

The Daily Mail reports the FBI agents appeared to throw a smoke bomb before fatally shooting Robertson.

Per Daily Mail:

One then flings what seems to be a smoke bomb, which explodes near the front door.

The actual shooting is unclear, but photos from the scene show Robertson lying on his back, dead on the sidewalk in front of his house.

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‘The FBI takes all shooting incidents involving our agents or task force members seriously,’ the agency said in a statement.

‘In accordance with FBI policy, the shooting incident is under review by the FBI’s Inspection Division.

‘As this is an ongoing matter, we have no further details to provide.’

Social media users criticized the brutal response from the FBI, noting threats against President Trump never met this type of reaction.

“75 year old man who needed a cane to walk was selected for extermination by the FBI. Notice that none of the actual death threats against Trump led to this response. Dark times ahead,” Cernovich wrote.

75 year old man who needed a cane to walk was selected for extermination by the FBI. Notice that none of the actual death threats against Trump led to this response. Dark times ahead. Read the book - “ordinary men”! https://t.co/jrLeM4TOoN

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 9, 2023

“Once more the FBI have proven that the law doesn’t apply to all if comes to threatening a president. Elites and celebrities are exempt especially when they are threatening to hurt or kill Trump. They don’t get raided and killed like a 75 year old man in Utah who displayed his hate online for Biden,” I Meme Therefore I Am noted.

Once more the FBI have proven that the law doesn’t apply to all if comes to threatening a president. Elites and celebrities are exempt especially when they are threatening to hurt or kill Trump. They don’t get raided and killed like a 75 year old man in Utah who displayed his… pic.twitter.com/jbrmtP90Ej

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) August 10, 2023

“Isn’t it odd when the FBI murders an elderly 300lb handicapped Trump voter in cold-blood we IMMEDIATELY get menacing pictures of him and his life story and every social media post he ever made but when a transgender murders Christian children in cold-blood we get NOTHING,” Benny Johnson noted.

Isn’t it odd when the FBI murders an elderly 300lb handicapped Trump voter in cold-blood we IMMEDIATELY get menacing pictures of him and his life story and every social media post he ever made but when a transgender murders Christian children in cold-blood we get NOTHING https://t.co/uRJL9HP3jm

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 10, 2023

Travis Lee Clark, a community member who knew Robertson, said he was “very political and sometimes made off-color jokes…but nothing that indicated it was a threat,” the New York Post noted.

Cont. from the New York Post:

After the FBI was tipped off about Robertson’s online threats, he began targeting the bureau itself.

“Hey FBI, you still monitoring my social media? Checking so I can be sure to have a loaded gun handy in case you drop by again,” he wrote in one post.

Despite his detailed and gruesome posts, neighbors said Robertson was a frail, elderly man who used a cane and not someone they considered dangerous.

“There’s no way that he was driving from here to Salt Lake City, setting up a rifle and taking a shot at the president — 100% no way,” neighbor Andrew Maunder said.

UPDATE

The family of Craig Deeluew Robertson wrote they are "shocked and devastated by the senseless and tragic killing."

They said Robertson was "always willing to assist another in need, even when advanced age, limited mobility, and other physical challenges made it more difficult and painful for him to do so."

Here is a photo of Craig Robertson in Provo, a carpenter, who had recently organized a group of volunteers to build a ramp for a disabled neighbor pic.twitter.com/CJjryrRgOU

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 10, 2023

Our friends at The Gateway Pundit provided the full statement from Robertson's family:

We, the family of Craig Deeluew Robertson, are shocked and devastated by the senseless and tragic killing of our beloved father and brother, and we fervently mourn the loss of a good and decent man.

The Craig Robertson we knew was a kind and generous person who was always willing to assist another in need, even when advanced age, limited mobility, and other physical challenges made it more difficult and painful for him to do so.

He often used his expert woodworking skills to craft beautiful and creative items for others, including toys such as sleighs, rocking horses, and bubble gum dispensers for the children of friends and neighbors at Christmas time. He was active in his local church congregation and loved the Lord Jesus Christ with all his heart.

He was a devoted dog lover all his life, and he lavished his animals with love and affection. He was a lover of history and an avid reader of every kind of book. In his younger years, he was a sportsman and hunter.

He was a firearm enthusiast, collector and gunsmith, who staunchly supported the constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms for the purposes of providing food and protection for his family and home.

As a safety inspector in the steel industry, he worked diligently and conscientiously to safeguard the lives and well-being of untold thousands who would use, and benefit from, the numerous industrial and public works projects he was responsible for during the course of a decades-long career. Craig loved this country with all his heart. He saw it as a God-inspired and God-blessed land of liberty. He was understandably frustrated and distraught by the present and on-going erosions to our constitutionally protected freedoms and the rights of free citizens wrought by what he, and many others in this nation, observed to be a corrupt and overreaching government.

As an elderly–and largely homebound–man, there was very little he could do but exercise his First Amendment right to free speech and voice his protest in what has become the public square of our age–the internet and social media. Though his statements were intemperate at times, he has never, and would never, commit any act of violence against another human being over a political or philosophical disagreement.

As our family processes the grief and pain of our loss, we would have it be known that we hold no personal animosity towards those individuals who took part in the ill-fated events of the morning of August 9, 2023, which resulted in Craig’s death.

We ask that the media and public respect our family members’ privacy and give us the time and space needed to come to terms with the sad tragedy of these events.