Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect Identified as 22-Year-Old Tyler Robinson: 'We Got Him'

The suspect successful nan fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk has been identified arsenic 22-year-old Utah resident Tyler Robinson, officials said astatine a Friday property conference.

Kirk, 31, was changeable during a Turning Point USA rally astatine Utah Valley University successful Orem, connected Wednesday, Sept. 10.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said astatine a Friday, Sept. 12, property convention that a family personnel of Robinson's reached retired to a family friend saying that Robinson had "confessed to them aliases implied" that he'd committed nan shooting. The family friend past contacted authorities. 

"We sewage him," Cox said, later adding, "I want to convey nan family members of Tyler Robinson, who did nan correct point successful this case."

FBI Director Kash Patel said astatine nan property convention that nan fishy was taken into custody astatine 10 p.m. MT connected Thursday, Sept. 11.

According to Cox, location were inscriptions connected slug casings allegedly belonging to Robinson, including 1 connected an unfired casing reading, "Hey fascist catch," and different 1 connected an unfired casing reading, "If you publication this you are cheery lmao." (A rule enforcement bulletin from early successful nan investigation seemed to falsely picture nan engravings arsenic expressing "transgender ideology.")

Cox besides said location were messages connected nan Discord app sent by Robinson astir nan request to “retrieve a firearm from a driblet point.” Cox later added authorities don't person immoderate accusation that mightiness lead to immoderate further arrests.

Authorities judge nan fishy fired from nan tile of a building 200 yards distant from nan event.

President Donald Trump announced a fishy was successful custody while speaking on Fox & Friends on Friday, Sept. 12. Trump was asked if location was an update connected nan manhunt for nan suspect, to which he responded, "I deliberation pinch a precocious grade of certainty we person him successful custody," adding that "someone very close" to nan fishy turned him in.

On Thursday, Sept. 11, rule enforcement and FBI Director Kash Patel released footage showing nan shooting fishy sprinting crossed a rooftop earlier climbing down and fleeing toward a wooded area disconnected campus.

The FBI said it recovered a high-powered, bolt-action firearm believed to person been utilized successful nan shooting successful nan area.

A forearm imprint, a footwear people and a thenar imprint were besides located connected nan tile of nan building. Authorities said they were utilizing "technologies" to reappraisal that evidence.

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Images of nan suspected shooter had antecedently been released, showing a man successful a achromatic shirt, dark-colored chapeau and sunglasses.