Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin’s roommate ‘shocked’ by shooting, has been ‘very cooperative,’ governor says

When the investigation is updated in the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Sunday, the governor of Utah Spencer Cox declared to “meet the press” of NBC News that the suspect was in a romantic relationship with his roommate, who cooperates with the authorities.

“What we have learned specifically is that this person had no knowledge, was shocked when she discovered,” said Cox about the roommate.

This person “is a boyfriend who passes from man to woman,” said Cox, hurting the roommate. Cox confirmed previous reports From Fox News.

The roommate was “very cooperative,” said Cox.

This follows what a federal official close to the investigation said on Sunday at NBC News.

The investigators interviewed the roommate of Tyler Robinson, the manager saying that “there seems to be a romantic relationship” and that the roommate passes from man to woman. The roommate has cooperated, but there is still no solid understanding of how the personal relationship is reflected in the attack, said the official.

Asked about CNN How the Transition of the roommate was relevant for the reason for the suspect, Cox said: “This is what we are trying to understand at the moment.”

“It is easy to draw conclusions, and therefore we have the shell envelopes, other forensic evidence that arrives and trying to reconstruct all these things together,” said Cox.

Cox also said that Robinson had not cooperated with the authorities. The federal official told NBC News that Robinson invoked his rights to the fifth amendment.

The authorities have not provided details on the possible reason for the suspect. Cox said this suspect, Robinson, 22, had a “left -wing ideology” despite a conservative family. Robinson was not registered with any political party. The authorities said he had scribbled messages on fascism, video games and internet memes on ammunition.

The officials said that Robinson had only recently shown interest in politics and that a parent recalled his Kirk criticism at a dinner before his event at the University of Utah Valley. Kirk has built an audience in part thanks to a desire to plead controversial positions online and in events on campus, in particular by calling a trans person “an abomination to God”.

Cox stressed that “much more” will be revealed on Tuesday, when charges should be deposited. Federal officials told NBC News that there were no active discussions on federal accusations.

A federal official said: “We take our time”, while another said that investigators were still working to assess Robinson’s digital content, which could determine if there is potential for federal competence.

Investigators also pursue legal roads to access the storage of the cloud linked to Robinson, said the two officials, in the hope of highlighting his reflection and his possible intentions.

A change

Cox described Robinson as once a “very normal, very intelligent” young man who obtained an average of 4.0 points and 34 on the act before briefly attending the state University of UTA. But Cox said he seemed to change after he returned home in southern Utah after a decision to leave school after a semester.

Robinson spent a lot of time playing and plunged into “deep and dark internet, Reddit culture and these other dark places,” said Cox. Inscriptions on the ball sockets near the stage reflect this online world led by memes, said Cox.

A call for calm

In the aftermath of the shooting, Cox played a main role by urging calm in the middle of booming tensions. He urged the Americans to find an “ramp out of ramp” at an era of political violence and a polarized political landscape and also spoke against social media, which he described as “cancer”.

Cox, a republican, echoes these messages on Sunday, arguing that “social media played a direct role in each attempt at assassination and assassination that we have seen in the past five years.”

“There is no doubt in my mind that” cancer “is probably not a strong enough word,” he added.

He also said that he could not “sufficiently emphasize the damage that social media and the Internet all cause us”. Powerful companies “have understood how to hack our brain, make us dependent on indignation,” he added.

Cox urged people to use their own agency to keep the country away from the edge, rather than waiting for a political figure to show the way to follow.

“People are waiting for someone to lead us from it. And I think it’s a mistake,” he said. “I do not think that no one, certainly not a governor, I do not think that a president, I do not think that anyone can change the trajectory of this. It is really about each of us.”

Asked about President Donald Trump’s saying last week that “leftist radicals are the problem,” said Cox, Trump “is angry, and he has the right to be angry.”

Cox said the White House asked him to appear in morning shows “because they are worried about the climbing that takes place there.”

“But again, I do not know why we have the impression that we must take our bearings, that we, as Americans, must get up in the morning and decide how we will react or act according to what the president says or what a governor says or what someone else says,” he said.

He said that his conservative philosophy and his faith led him to believe that “we are each individually responsible for ourselves”.

“The United States of America is a collection of many different people,” he said. “And once again, no president will make us get out of that. It will be each of us.”