DNA on a towel rolled around rifle near Charlie Kirk Assassinat corresponds to Suspect’s: FBI Director

The DNA on a towel rolled around a rifle found near the place where conservative activist Charlie Kirk was murdered corresponding to that of the 22 -year -old accused in the murder, said FBI director Kash Patel on Monday.
Investigators also used DNA evidence to connect the suspect, Tyler Robinson, with a screwdriver handed over on the roof where the fatal shooting was fired, Patels in Fox News Channel told on Monday.
Utah authorities are preparing to deposit accusations of capital murder against Robinson on Tuesday in the murder of Kirk, a dominant figure of conservative policy which became a confidant of President Donald Trump after having founded Turning Point USA based in Arizona, one of the largest political organizations in the country.
Kirk, who brought the young conservative evangelical Christians to politics, was shot down on Wednesday when he was expressed at the University of Utah Valley during one of his many stops on the campus. The shooting has raised fears of the increase in political violence in the deeply polarized United States.
Officials said Robinson had hatred for Kirk and attributed to a “left -wing ideology” that had increased in recent years. Robinson’s family and friends said he had spent a lot of time scrolling through the “dark corners of the Internet,” the Governor of Utah Spencer Cox said on Sunday.
Patel told Fox News that Robinson had written in a note before the shooting that he had the opportunity to release Kirk and was going to do so. The investigators were able to recover the content of the note after being destroyed, said the director of the FBI, paraphrasing of the note without revealing more details.
The authorities said Robinson had not cooperated with the police. They say that he may have been “radicalized” online and that the ammunition found in the weapon used to kill Kirk included anti-fascist and meme-language engravings. Judicial files show that a ball housing had the message: “Hey, fascist! Catch!”
Robinson was arrested Thursday evening near the place where he grew up around St. George, in the southwest corner of Utah between Las Vegas and Bryce Canyon and the National Parks of Zion. We do not know if he has a lawyer who could speak on his behalf, and his family refused to comment on the Associated Press.
Tributes to Kirk continue across the country. A line of mourning people wrapped in the Kennedy Center in Washington for a vigil on Sunday, and there were moments of silence during several professional sporting events.
Vice-President JD Vance, who counted Kirk as a close friend, was a substitute animator on Monday at the Kirk talk show on Rumble, a streaming platform.
“Please join me when I pay tribute to my friend,” said Vance on social networks.
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