Was "The Shooting Of Charlie Kirk" book published by "Anastasia J. Casey" the day before Kirk was shot and killed in Utah on September 10, 2025? No, that's not true: An Amazon spokesperson told Lead Stories the title was published in the late afternoon on September 10, 2025, and the date of September 9, 2025, that appeared on the website for the book was a technical issue. An AI text detector concluded that it was 92.8 percent likely the book description was written by artificial intelligence.
The publication was originally available for purchase on Amazon.com on September 10, 2025 (archived here) and the publication date was listed as September 9, 2025, as an archive of the page shows.
This is what the the book cover looked like published on Amazon.com on September 10, 2025:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of book cover posted at Amazon.com archive.)
A screenshot of the publications details from the archived link show it said September 9, 2025:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of book posted at Amazon.com archive.)
Kirk was fatally shot while on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on September 10, 2025.
The book publication date on Amazon.com of September 9, 2025, the day before he was shot and killed, was noted on social media accounts. A video posted on X.com account @CramerSez (archived here) on September 10, 2025, shows a screenshot of the September 9, 2025, book publication date:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of image from video posted at X.com/cramersez.)
Lead Stories contacted Amazon for a comment about the book listed on the website and a spokesperson responded via email on September 12, 2025, and said a "technical issue" allowed the date of September 9, 2025, as the publication date. They said the title has been removed from the site:
We have content guidelines governing which books can be listed for sale, and we remove books that do not adhere to these guidelines. The title in question is no longer available for sale. Due to a technical issue, the date of publication that had been displayed for this title, while it was briefly listed, was incorrect, and we apologize for any confusion this may have caused. The title was published late in the afternoon on September 10th.
The author name, Anastasia J. Casey, does not have any other publications listed on Amazon as the archived link from the book shows. A Google search found no other publications by Anastasia J. Casey. Similarly, the Yahoo! News index of partner news sites and news services (archived here) showed no publications by Anastasia J. Casey other than "The Shooting of Charlie Kirk."
According to AI detection tool Hive's browser extension, the text describing the book was 92.8% likely to have been generated by AI:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of Hive Moderation website.)
Other Lead Stories fact checks about Charlie Kirk can be found here.
