Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooter detained without surety in the utah prison
A 22 -year -old Utah man was arrested for suspected aggravated murder, a criminal discharge from a firearm causing serious bodily lesions and an obstruction of justice as part of the deadly shooting of an eminent right -wing activist Charlie Kirk earlier this week.
The alleged shooter was appointed Tyler Robinson, 22, a state resident who did not attend the University of Utah Valley, where Kirk was shot. A judge ordered that he was detained without surety. He is detained in Utah County prison in Spanish Fork, about 80 kilometers south of Salt Lake City, and should be officially charged at the start of next week.
The officials focused on Robinson on Thursday evening after a parent and a family friend alerted the local sheriff office he had admitted to them or “implied that he had committed” the murder, “said the Governor of Utah Spencer Cox.
“I would like to thank the members of the family of Tyler Robinson who did the right thing in this case and were able to bring him into the police,” said Cox. “Thanks to a process, the family learned that it had happened.”
Cox made this announcement surrounded by police officers and FBI officials. Cox, a Republican, said that officials had heard that Robinson had recently heard more politics and that he was opposed to Kirk’s beliefs.
The governor told journalists that Robinson had lived with his family for a long time in the County of Washington at the southwest corner of Utah, near the borders of Arizona and Nevada.
Utah Valley University, where Kirk was shot down on Wednesday when he was expressed before an outdoor campus rally, is about 420 kilometers northeast of the county of Washington in Orem.
The campus event was one of the two that the Turning Point USA organization of Kirk had scheduled in September in Utah.
Gunman probably acted alone: the governor
Cox said the authorities thought that the alleged shooter acted alone.
The governor said the suspect had changed clothes and that the police were able to match the clothes and a vehicle seen on surveillance video to those belonging to Robinson.
The engravings on the balls found in a rifle that would have been used in the attack contained messages, including a homophobic language, it was alleged during the press conference.
President Donald Trump suggested earlier in an interview with Fox News that manhunt had reached his conclusion, saying that he had learned development just before arriving on the set.
“If I understand correctly, and once again, subject to change, but the facts are the facts, we have the person who, in our view, is the person we are looking for,” Trump told The Hosts of the Morning Show Fox and friends.
Kirk was a supporter of Trump who dates back to the first presidential campaign of the Republican in 2016. Trump, in turn, expressed his admiration for the influencer.
“In many ways, he’s bigger now,” said Trump.
FBI director Kash Patel at the press conference said that the “total weight of the federal government” had been charged from the shooting, in addition to the work of local police and images and videos shared by the media.
Patel then addressed Kirk, which he described as a friend.
“Rest right now, brother,” he said. “We have the watch and I will see you in Valhalla.”
Robinson is an registered voter but was not affiliated with a political party, according to the files of state voters.
At the time of the shooting, he was a third -year student in the Electric Learning Program of the Dixie Technical College, which is part of the UTAH public university system. Previously, he had obtained a four -year scholarship at Utah State University in Logan, but left after a semester, university confirmed Reuters.
Robinson does not seem to have criminal history, according to state files examined by Reuters.
Friday, Erika Kirk made remarks in tears on the life and assassination of her husband via the social platforms of Turning Point USA.
Late late Friday, Erika Kirk made her first public comments on the death of her husband.
“I will never have, the words to describe the loss that I feel in my heart,” said Kirk, whose remarks have been released online.
She thanked Trump, saying through tears that her husband loved the American president. She also promised to keep Kirk’s work alive and said that she would continue her tour on campus, radio and podcast show.
Kirk spoke of armed violence in the last moments
Kirk was killed by a single shot on Wednesday in what the police said they were a targeted attack. The authorities have recovered a high -high bolt rifle made by Mauser near the scene and said the shooter had jumped from a roof and disappeared in the woods after the shooting.
The attack, carried out in broad daylight while Kirk spoke of American armed violence, was captured on macabre videos that have spread on social networks.
“There was this like a really heavy dark weight in my heart and my soul for the last two days, and to wake up to the news of the shooter captured today, it is a great thing,” said Creighton Baird, who witnessed the Wednesday shooting and said that he was close to the scene to see horrible images that continue to replay in his mind.
The mortal shooting of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk is the last in a wave of political violence that has occurred in recent years in the United States, which experts have linked to a more lively rhetoric and access to arms.
Investigators said they thought Robinson mixed the campus crowd due to his university age.
Kirk asked for an outdoor courtyard for the event, sources told Salt Lake Tribune. About 15 security agents were in service, divided between university and the staff of the turn, reported the newspaper.
The University of the University of Utah Valley were to resume on Wednesday and the school said that there would be more security on the campus. People will be able to recover their personal effects in the courtyard where the shooting took place at the beginning of next week, the school said.
Trump said he would award Kirk the presidential freedom of freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States, he also plans to attend his funeral.
US vice-president JD Vance helped Kirk’s Casket on Thursday, who was piloted on Air Force two from Utah to Arizona, where Kirk resided.
The governor calls for unity
Kirk was a conservative provocateur who became a powerful political force among young Republicans and was a must on university campuses, where he invited a vehement debate on social issues.
At the press conference, Cox, the governor of Utah, said that the shooting was an attack on American ideals, and he urged people to write rhetoric and get involved with words, not violence. He addressed young people in particular and seemed to aim for large technological algorithms.
“Social media is cancer,” he said. “And I urge people to disconnect, deactivate and touch the grass.”
Front burnerFear, Fury and Charlie Kirk
The shooting attracted a largely bipartite condemnation while Democratic officials joined the Kirk Republican Allies by denouncing the attack, which took place during a peak of political violence which affected a range of ideologies and representatives of the two main political parties.
But Trump seemed to reject this story on Friday when they were asked for Fox – who suggested that there were radicals on the two extremes of the political spectrum – which could be done to “repair this country”.
“I’m going to tell you something that will cause me trouble but I don’t care,” said Trump. “Radicals on the right are often radical because they don’t want to see the crime. Left radicals are the problem.”
Trump deplored the fact that any prosecution would probably take years to make their way to the courts, on the basis of the previous previous one. The president said that he hoped that the alleged shooter would face the death penalty.
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