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By Brad Reed / Common Dreams
Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced on Friday that 22-year-old Utah resident Tyler Robinson had been arrested as the suspect in the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
Cox said that Robinson was apprehended after being turned in by his family after he allegedly confessed to murdering Kirk on Wednesday.
The Utah governor also elaborated on some of the engravings that were found on bullet casings that were found on the scene. One of the messages, claimed Cox, said, “Hey fascist! Catch!” while another had the words: “If you read this you are gay lmao.”
US President Donald Trump was the first to assert Friday morning that law enforcement officials have apprehended a suspect in the murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
During an appearance on “Fox & Friends,” the president said that he believed “with a high degree of certainty” that law enforcement had the suspect in custody.
“I just heard about it five minutes before I walked in, as I’m walking in, they said, ‘Looking real good,’ they have the person they wanted,” he said. “So you have breaking news, don’t you?”
Trump also said that a person who knew the suspect provided information on him to law enforcement officials that led to his arrest, although he offered no details. He said that the FBI would likely make an announcement on the suspect later on Friday.
Shortly after Trump made this announcement, law enforcement sources gave CNN some additional details that seemingly corroborated Trump’s claims about having a suspect in custody.
“The suspect in the murder of Charlie Kirk confessed to his father that he was the shooter,” wrote CNN’s Kristen Holmes in a social media post. “His father told authorities and secured his son until they could arrive to pick him up.”
While much remains unclear, several outlets—including NBC News, The Daily Beast, New York Post, and others—identified the individual in custody as a 22-year-old with the name Tyler Robinson. Many of the other details surrounding the individual’s arrest could not be independently verified by Common Dreams.
In the hours after Kirk’s assassination, law enforcement officials took two people into custody, only for those people to be released shortly after officials determined they had nothing to do with the killing.
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