The authorities have arrested a suspect in The murder Or right -wing activist Charlie Kirk.
Donald Trump He announced this morning a duration in Fox News that “have the person they wanted”, and who only heard about that “five minutes before entering.”
NBC News and CNN also reported this morning that a suspect is in custody. NBC news reported That a family member saw the photos FBI Released from an interest person and delivered it, citing two senior officials responsible for enforcing the law, with CNN annotation That the suspect confessed to his father, and that his father told the authorities that he was holding his son until they could be cycling.
The Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, held a press conference later this morning, in which he identified the suspect as Tyler Robinson, a 22 -year -old Utah resident. “Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, we got it,” Cox said, before telling journalists that “he can’t answer” if Robinson discussed a reason.
The FBI had been in a human hunt for the gunman since the shocking murder of Kirk on Wednesday afternoon.
The authorities announced on Thursday that they had recovered a “high -power bolt screw rifle” that believe it was used in the shooting. “The rifle recovered in a wooded area where the shooter had fled, and the FBI laboratory will analyze this weapon”, special FBI agent by Robert Bohls said Reporters Bohls added that the researchers also “collected [a] Footwear printing “, as well as” a palm footprint and impressions of previous tips. ”
The FBI aware Images of an “person of interest”, requesting the help of the public identifying the individual and offered up to $ 100,000 for information that leads to the judgment of individual or individual responses for Kirk’s murder.
The Wall Street Journal reported On Thursday, the researchers found “expressions of transgender and anti -fascist ideology” in ammunition within the recovered rifle, citing the internal bulletin of application of the law and another family of origin, but The New York Times reported Later, the bulletin had not verified the bone by the analysts and did not coincide with other sums of evidence. He Diary Friday added a Editor’s note To its history, pointing out that there are no real indications, inscriptions included transgender messages.
Cox today approached the speculation about writing in the housings of the bullet: “Inscriptions in a fired housing read ‘notices, abults, Owo, what is this, question sign’. Registration in the housings without being read:” Hello, arrow symbol, right arrow symbol and three arrow simulators down.
Kirk was an event at an event at the University of Utah Valley when he was beaten with a single bullet before being urgently taken to a hospital. The videos show an individual on the roof of a building about 150 meters away, which the university identified as the shooter’s location, by The New York Times. It was reported that Kirk was critical before Trump announced his death in Truth Social about two hours after he was shot, after which he was confirmed by one of Kirk’s spokesmen.
Two people of interest were tasks in custody before being released on Wednesday, with the director of the FBI Kash Patel say In X that the “subject for the horrible shooting today that touches the life of Charlie Kirk is now in custody”, then pointing out that the “subject in custody has been released after an interrogation by the police.”
Crown Expelled The Chief of the SALT Lake City Field Office of the FBI just a week before Kirk’s murder.
The night of the day of the day, Patel shared An X FBI Salt Lake City post that announced that it was “to release a video of the shooter that murdered Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University.” The publication included a link to a video described as it shows an individual who “sees jumping from the roof of a building after the shooting.”
Patel appeared today in surrounding Cox at the press conference. “For my friend Charlie Kirk. Rest now, brother. We have the clock. And I’ll see you in Valhalla,” said the FBI director.
Trump, who announced the death of Kirk in Truth Social, said Thursday morning that he will posthumously grant Kirk the presidential medal of La Libertad. “Charlie was a giant of his generation and a defender of freedom and an inspiration for millions and millions of people,” said the president while talking at a commemorative event of September 11. Trump wrote on Wednesday that he was “ordering all US flags through the United States down to half mast until Sunday night at 6 pm”, and went to comply One address Of the oval office in which he blamed the death of Kirk to the “radical left.” Several Republican legislators and conservative commentators have made similar accusations, despite the lack of information about the shooter or a potential reason.
COX, Press Conference doors today, spoke about the need to tear down the temperature.
“Social networks are cancer in our society at this time, and urge people to log in, turn off and touch grass, hug a family member, go and do good in their community,” Hey sayingpointing out that he has a friend who told him that Republicans and Democrats are gathering in his city to have a discussion. “This is our moment,” Cox said. “Do we climb or find a disaster?”
