Questions linger about alleged shooter’s motivation for killing Charlie Kirk | Charlie Kirk shooting

Although the suspect in the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk was revealed on Friday by the authorities, the questions surrounding his identity and his motivations exacerbated the intense American political debates following the shooting.

Authorities have revealed that Kirk is the killer to be Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old man who grew up in Washington, Utah, along the southwest state border.

In the absence of a clear reason for murder, reports have tried to gather information on Robinson and its history. He is a third year student in an electrical learning program at the Dixie Technical College in the State. His two parents are registered Republicans, although his personal political convictions remain vague. Photos now deleted on social networks show Robinson and his family posing with firearms.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Saturday, the Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, said: “He is very clear for us and for investigators that it was a person who was deeply indoctrinated by the left ideology.” COX cited the conclusions of the current survey on Robinson and its possible reason but did not provide additional details on the way in which the civil servants arrived at this conclusion.

These COX remarks were published one day after having delivered a speech after the arrest of Robinson where he had a frank moment on the identity of Robinson as Utahn.

“Bad things happen, and for 33 hours, I was praying that if it were to happen here, it would not be one of us,” said Cox. “That someone led from another state, someone came from another country. Unfortunately, this prayer was not answered as I hoped.”

He continued by explaining that it would have been “easier for us” if the suspect was not from the community.

“Just because I thought it would facilitate the way of saying:” Hey, we don’t do that here. Indeed, UTAH is a special place, we direct the nation in charity donations, we direct the nation in service each year, “said Cox, is tearing himself apart. “But that happened here, and it was one of us.”

After Robinson’s identity has been revealed, some conservatives have softened their attacks on the alleged murderer of Kirk as an individual – but continue to take advantage of the liberals as a group.

Caroline Southern Republican MP Nancy Mace of Southern Tweeted on Wednesday that it is time to bring back the death penalty “after the murder of Kirk.

Friday, Mace said that Kirk “would like us to pray for an individual as bad and lost like Tyler Robinson to find Jesus Christ”.

“We will try to do the same,” she wrote.

Later, she doubled the death penalty, saying: “Some crimes are so bad, the only punishment is the death penalty.” But, referring to the way in which the suspect’s father would have played a role by handing him over to the authorities, she also said: “We send prayers and our greetings to the father of Tyler Robinson for doing the right thing.”

Cox’s speech was largely congratulated as highlighting unity during a moment of division, giving a striking contrast to Donald Trump, who considered Kirk as a close ally. On Friday, the president appeared on Fox & Friends and was invited by the host Ainsley Earhardt: “How do we distribute this country?” How can we come together? “

“Radicals on the right are radical because they don’t want to see crime,” said Trump. “Left radicals are the problem – and they are vicious and horrible and politically wise. They want men in female sports, they want transgender people, they want open borders. The worst thing that has happened to this country.”

The conservatives had hung on reports – which has since been retracted – that the curtains for the bullets found with the weapon that the police suspected to kill Kirk was engraved with markings indicating “trans ideology”.

“To the surprise of anyone literally,” said Megyn Kelly during his show earlier the day after the kirk murder. “There is a particular group that flows to kill Americans in the name of ideology, and it is militants or transgender individuals, or those who proclaim that they are.”

Once Robinson’s identity has been revealed, Kelly hypothesizes that Robinson should be radicalized after going to university.

“This kid has radicalized and obviously had a psychotic break … I am disturbed to see that he seems to come from a loving and intact family,” said Kelly. “If you look at the family profile of social media, it looks like a happy family. It looks like a loving mother and a loving father. He had two young brothers, there are a lot of family photos on vacation and family dinners.”

Kelly noted that if the authorities will ask for the death penalty, it is ultimately a “mental health problem” that underpins the “radicalization” of young people who go to university.

Meanwhile, the white nationalist Nick Fuentes sought to stop the speculations that Robinson was perhaps a “grup”, a nickname for a follower of Fuentes, after reports on the engravings on the balls of the alleged killer pistol led to theorize his ideology.

Groypers had long criticized Kirk and dragged speakers during his events because the former perceived that the latter was too politically moderate.

While Fuentes said in an article on social networks that he and his supporters “were currently supervised for the murder of Charlie Kirk,” he also said in a streaming video: “I pray to God, there is no more violence.”

“To all my subscribers, if you take up arms, I disavow you,” said Fuentes. “I give you up in the strongest possible terms.”