Suspect arrested in Utah assassination of conservative speaker Charlie Kirk
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Via: vic-eldred • last year • 25 commentsBy: Michael RuizPeter DAbroscaJulia BonavitaSarah Rumpf-WhittenDavid Spunt (Fox News)
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FIRST ON FOX: Orem, UTAH — Police have arrested a suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk on a Utah college campus earlier this week - identified by sources as Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah resident.
Kirk, a 31-year-old father of two, was sitting under a tent around 12:20 p.m. Wednesday, debating with students on hot-button current affairs issues, when a single shot rang out. Video from the scene shows him struck in the neck before he slumped out of his chair.
He had been invited to speak at Utah Valley University by the campus chapter of Turning Point USA, a national conservative student group he founded.
"I think with a high-degree of certainty, we have him," President Donald Trump revealed on Fox & Friends Friday morning. He added that, "essentially, someone who knew him turned him in."
A split showing four newly-released photographs of the person of interest in Charlie Kirk's assassination on Sept. 10, 2025 in Orem, Utah.(Utah Public Safety)
Trump said he hopes the suspect gets the death penalty if found guilty. He also explained how investigators found the suspect — with help from a minister, a member of the U.S. Marshals Service and the suspect's father.
"We have the person that we think is the person we're looking for, but they drove into the police headquarters, and he's there now," Trump said.
Witnesses screamed in horror and fled for cover after the bullet struck Kirk in the neck. He was rushed to a hospital and later pronounced dead.
Other video circulating online appears to show a dark-clad figure on a rooftop. Authorities said the gunshot came from about 200 yards away, likely from a perch atop the Losee Center building, which is on the opposite side of the plaza from where Kirk was speaking.
Charlie Kirk appears at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025 in Orem, Utah. Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was speaking at his "American Comeback Tour" when he was shot in the neck and killed. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)
Investigators recovered a "high-powered, bolt-action rifle" along the route the suspect is believed to have used to escape, according to FBI Salt Lake City Special Agent in Charge Robert Bohls.
The FBI released images of a man in black they were calling a "person of interest" in connection with the shooting. Bohls said they also found a palm print, footprint and imprint from a forearm.
Fox News Digital witnessed investigators collecting a surveillance camera from the side of a home on a street adjacent to the campus.
Investigators retrieve a home security camera from above a resident's garage after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. (Peter D'Abrosca/Fox News Digital)
The homeowner said the camera recorded someone running through backyards after the shooting.
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They got him!
I hope they have the right person , but have to wait on facts from LEO.
from what i saw on social media yesterday after the $100k reward was offered , most were saying , a suspect would be picked up before the weekend was out .
Let's face it somebody who saw the pictures posted had to have known who it was.
Perhaps mom & dad?
He apparently confessed to his dad, who worked in law enforcement. His dad arranged for the assassin to turn himself in.
I can't wait for all the details.
Will we get the answers we as a society need to come to some semblance of an understanding ? remains to be seen , but dollars to doughnuts this persons life is about to be looked at under a very strong microscope .
True, but if recent history is any example then the powers that be will hold back info. While they say they don't want to inspire copycats, I do wonder how much is withheld because it paints those in power in a bad way and shows that the inaction of those who could have prevented such a killing failed to act.
While I don't wish to grant a killer a public podium to spout their hate for years, I do wish that there was more information given out so that hopefully changes could be made to help prevent such future actions.
I am cautioning myself , that the legal process still has to be gone through and we will all have to wait to see the results of that . and that should go without having to say it .
Bullets had markings like "hey fascist, Catch" and a reference to an Italian song about resistance to fascism.
Possibly from the Italian Communist brigade that murdered Mussolini and his mistress.
Seems like he came from a good family and was very smart. Might have been radicalized on campus. Sad.
Remember the rioters of 2020? Many of those who were briefly arrested were going to college .... our future leaders!
Might have been radicalized on campus.
I put all my money on that.
Btw here they are:
Apparently the NYT lied about their being no left wing markings. Surprise
The New York Times has long ago lost any credibility it had, right around the time they editorialized everything Donald Trump said and used lower case letters for whites and capitals for Blacks.
Now comes the "ignore all the evidence" he's really a right winger portion of the farce...
Here's what he marked on the shell casings :
"Notices Bulges OwO what's this?" - a transgender/furry culture meme
"Hey fascist! Catch!" "
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the calldown code for the 500kg bomb in the game Helldivers 2
"Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Bella ciao ciao ciao" - song of the Italian antifascist resistance
"If you read this, ur gay, lmao"
When someone murders a public political figure, the murderer likely opposes the views of the person they murdered.
What is sickening is that partisans attribute the actions of a single extreme, vicious person to all individuals who oppose the position of the victim.
I agree.
But What is really sickening is the number of people publicly supporting the actions of the single, extreme viscous person. Way, way too many have made their support public. Happened with the healthcare exec assassination, and happened with the kirk one.
Except that isn't what they're doing. They are saying that the values, norms, views and goals of the left produce this sort of thing. For instance, had this been reversed, say, the exact same scenario as what happened to Kirk but it had been Cornel West instead. There'd almost certainly be riots everywhere. Notice that the right is not rioting. This is an indication of the kind of person each side tends to produce.
That too. When JFK, RFK, Dr. King, et. al. were assassinated, the nation as a whole mourned. The cavalier view of murder we see at a societal level nowadays is unhealthy.
That is almost as bad. One needs a screwed up view of 'the Left' to think that 'it' promotes the murder of political opponents.
Or a realistic one.
I heard that from the idiots on the left shortly after the shot was fired.
I had seen something that the suspect is the son of a retired Sherriff, he confessed to his father and his father turned him in.
Now, I'm going to do something unheard of, especially from the left, and wait to see what other information comes out.