Third man charged in connection to attempted bombing of news vehicle in SLC

SALT LAKE CITY — After an explosive device was found underneath a Fox 13 news vehicle in Salt Lake City, two men were immediately identified and connected to the crime in court. On Friday, the FBI revealed that a third person has been tied to the crime.

Christoper Solomon Proctor was charged in U.S. District Court with arson in interstate commerce and possession of an unregistered destructive device, according to court documents filed after his Sept. 29th arrest — over two weeks after the makeshift device was found on Sept. 12 underneath a Fox 13 News vehicle.

According to a grand jury indictment, the device contained enough in its ignition to “generate an amplified fireball.”

Proctor joins Adil Justice Ahmed Nasir and Adeeb Nasir, who were also charged in the case in 3rd District Court, although court documents do not detail how the three worked together.

A detention document states Proctor planted the device early in the day, when staff were arriving to work for early morning broadcasts.

If not for a failure in the device’s functionality, many of them could have been “imperiled,” the document states.

“The nature of the business in this case — a television broadcast company — was operating at a time with many of the citizens in the state of Utah were tuned into television networks to state up-to-minute on the then-evolving investigation of the murder of Charlie Kirk,” the document states.

DNA evidence

After the device was found, it was tested for evidence, yielding a positive result for Proctor’s DNA, court documents state.

Investigators also recorded that Proctor’s vehicle was captured on a license plate reader near the device, minutes after it was supposed to have exploded. According to court documents, law enforcement also recovered items at his home that matched those used to construct the device.

“Included in the items recovered by law enforcement were black ninja boots, which appear similar to the boots worn by the individual captured on surveillance footage of the incendiary incident,” the document states, adding that an empty gas can with a hole carved in it and part of a multicolored fuse were also found.

In further evidence, the document states, Proctor also allegedly admitted to an acquaintance that he “set a destructive device under a vehicle at ‘Fox News’ and lit the fuse. (Proctor) told the acquaintance that it did not blow up.”

The document continues, saying Proctor also sent text messages that indicate he planned the crime.

Proctor allegedly returned to the scene

According to the document, a week after the attempted explosion, Proctor returned to the scene and was seen by surveillance driving slowly past the building several times before leaving. At some point during the investigation, the FBI also learned that he purchased more canon fuse “just four days after the failed attempt.”

At that point, Adil Justice Ahmed Nasir and Adeeb Nasir were already in police custody.

Court documents stressed again the timing of the alleged crime, tying it to the current events.

“The victim s in this case —the men and women working in the early morning hours of September 12, 2025 – a dozen people in the building at 4 a.m. with 18 more set to be in their seats by the 5 a.m. broadcast cannot be ignored,” the document states. “These employees were working at a time when our community, and indeed our nation, was in a heightened state of concern and worry.”

Before Proctor could visit again, he was indicted and taken into custody.

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