Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect Identified as 22-Year-Old Utah Man

Hunting the man’s man who killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk ended on Friday with a suspect in police custody, the authorities announced.

The Utah Ministry of Public Security and the FBI confirmed the arrest during a morning briefing, capping a two -day search after the 31 -year -old co -founder and Turning Point USA was fatally killed at the University of Utah Valley in Orem, Utah on Wednesday.

The authorities have identified the suspect as Tyler Robinson, 22, from Washington, Utah, after receiving a tip from a friend of Robinson’s family. The officials said that the council had arrived late Thursday evening, which prompted the agents to move quickly to locate and stop it. A reward of $ 100,000 for information leading to the identification and arrest of the shooter was announced on Thursday.

President Donald Trump announced for the first time the arrest in a live interview on Fox News, saying: “With a high degree of certainty, we have it.”

On Friday, during a press briefing, the governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, announced that Robinson had been arrested in the early hours of September 12 after a family member contacted a family friend, who contacted the authorities. The friend told investigators that Robinson had referred to his involvement in the shooting. The point was relayed by local police forces to the FBI and Utah County investigators, who equaled Gray Dodge Challenger de Robinson and clothes to the campus surveillance images from the day of the shooting. A family member also told investigators that Robinson had spoken critically of Kirk.

Cox said Robinson’s roommate also cooperated, showing the Discord Messages investigators in which Robinson discussed the recovery and hiding place of a rifle, leaving him wrapped in a towel, monitoring the falling site and in engraving of the balls.

FBI director Kash Patel stressed the role of the office in the investigation, stressing the speed of the response and coordination with the UTAH authorities. He said the agents arrived at the scene within 16 minutes of the shooting, secured the area alongside the local police and quickly started to move evidence to the FBI laboratories in Quantico for analysis. “The FBI and our partners are proud to be held here today to do justice to Charlie Kirk’s family and honor his memory,” he said.

Patel closed his remarks with a brief praise for Kirk, saying: “I will see you in Valhalla.”

Beyond the discord account identified by Cox, Robinson seems to have had practically no online imprint which could be immediately identified in public or private databases. Internet users have produced images they claimed from family photo albums published online, but the accounts of his immediate family members were quickly closed, and these images could not be verified; None indicated an obvious reason or ideology.

In a press release, Utah State University confirmed that Robinson briefly attended school during a semester in 2021.

The investigators recovered a Mauser .30 Caliber hunting rifle near the shooting scene, allegedly abandoned by the shooter while he was fled into a wooded area. A tour was found in the room, with three living cartridges in the magazine. COX said on Friday that the rowed wore engraved inscriptions. They would include memes to coarse jokes, such as “If you read this, you are gay. Lmao ”.