Charlie Kirk Suspected Killer Identified As Tyler Robinson

Charlie Kirk suspected killer has been identified as Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah resident, DailyMail reports. 

According to the report by Daily Mail, law enforcement sources revealed that Charlie Kirk suspected killer, Robinson was taken into custody as the alleged assassin who killed Kirk at a rally at Utah Valley University in Utah on Wednesday.  

 

The alleged killer confessed to his father Matt, who is a a 27-year veteran of the Washington County Sheriff's Department, sources told Daily Mail. His father then contacted authorities and secured his son before he could be taken into custody.

 

His mother, Amber Robinson, works for Intermountain Support Coordination Services, a company contracted by the state of Utah to help disabled people receive care. 

Robinson was a student at Utah State University on a scholarship, insiders confirmed to Daily Mail. 

The family's social media profiles show Robinson, who has two younger brothers, often enjoying family vacations and sharing smiling selfies, including some celebrating the alleged killer getting into college. 

Robinson was taken into custody around 11pm local time in southern Utah on Thursday night. He lives in a $600,000 six-bedroom home in Washington, Utah - about 260 miles south of Kirk's assassination in Orem. 

Officials have yet to confirm a motive to the assassination.

Authorities said at a press conference on Thursday night that Robinson will face the death penalty if convicted. 

Trump announced the arrest in an appearance on Fox News, where he said that 'someone very close' to the suspect turned him in.

 

Robinson's arrest comes after a manhunt for the suspect stretched to over a day and a half, with officials previously offering a reward of $100,000 for information leading to his capture. 

 

Surveillance footage had been released showing a figure on top of a roof leaping from a building and sprinting into a nearby neighborhood after Kirk was shot from around 200 yards away.  

 

The conservative commentator was hit by a single bullet while speaking to a crowd at the public university in Orem on Wednesday afternoon.

The father-of-two, known for his fierce MAGA views and thrilling debates with college kids across the country, collapsed immediately after being hit by the gunfire

The alleged killer was found after multiple suspects were incorrectly apprehended on Tuesday. 

Initially, a 'person of interest' was said to be in custody in connection with Kirk's shooting, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced Wednesday evening. 

However, they were later released, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed. 

 

'The subject in custody has been released after an interrogation by law enforcement,' Patel said in a statement. 'Our investigation continues and we will continue to release information in interest of transparency.'

Kirk was answering a question about mass shootings mere seconds before he was struck. He was rushed to hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.

 

Kirk leaves behind his wife Erika Frantzve, with whom he had a three-year-old daughter and a son, 16 months. The couple celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary in May.

 

President Donald Trump led the tributes for the late political commentator. 'The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead,' Trump wrote on Truth Social.

'He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!'

The President has ordered all American flags to be lowered to half-staff until Sunday evening at 6pm EST in honor of Kirk.

 

Chaos erupted around 20 minutes into Kirk's 'American Comeback' event, with videos showing hundreds of screaming students running for safety. 

The MAGA star, wearing a white t-shirt, was sitting inside a tented gazebo taking questions from attendees.

In the moments before the shot rang out, Kirk was asked how many mass shooters there had been over the past 10 years.

'Counting or not counting gang violence?' the commentator said, before lowering his microphone. 

He was shot less than a second later.

Screams were heard across the crowd of young people as those closest to Kirk rushed to his aid. 

UVU officials said the shot was fired from the top of the Losee Center, about 200 yards away from where Kirk was sitting on the college campus. 

Eerie footage showed someone on a rooftop just moments before conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was shot dead. 

 

They initially took an elderly man into custody who turned out not to be the shooter, police said.

Sophie Anderson, 45, who was standing 100 feet from the stage when the shooting happened.

As chaos ensued, she told Daily Mail that she almost got trampled as she ran off into the food court, where she hid in a closet.

'The second it happened, I knew it was a gunshot,' said Anderson, who was joined at the event by her boss Phil Lyman, a former Utah state representative who was handing out hats on stage with Kirk just five minutes earlier. 

'He was shot in the neck and just fell over and he was just a fountain of blood,' she said. 'They carried him off. All these kids are just falling apart and bawling.' 

Kirk leaves behind his wife, Erika, and a daughter, three, and son, 16 months. The couple celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary in May.  

Previously named on Forbes 30 under 30 list, Kirk was the youngest speaker at the 2016 Republican National Convention as well as the opening speaker at the 2020 RNC. 

Kirk, who had millions of social media followers, co-founded the non-profit Turning Point USA in 2012 as a teenager, which he dubbed a 'national student movement.' 

Its mission is to 'identify, educate, train and organize students to promote the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government.'