FBI has track down Charlie Kirk shooter: Who is Taylor Robinson
Tyler Robinson, 22, was taken into custody on Thursday night as police finally close in on the suspect after Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in front of thousands of people.
The governor said Robinson’s family and one of his friends helped deliver him into law enforcement custody, and he has been booked into Utah County Jail.
The suspect was believed to have fired a single shot from an elevated position about 200 yards from the tent where Kirk, 31, was seated at the university’s Losee Center, authorities and sources previously told The Post
Suspect was a student for one semester at Utah State University
Robinson was briefly a student at Utah State University, the school confirmed.
“Utah State University confirms that Tyler Robinson, the suspect arrested in the killing of Charlie Kirk, briefly attended Utah State University for one semester in 2021,” the university said in a statement posted on its website.
Trump did not ID the suspect, but he was later confirmed to be Robinson, an ID first confirmed by The Post.
“We got him,” Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced, with the arrest at 10 p.m. Thursday some 33 hours after Kirk was gunned down.
Tyler was turned in by family members, who said he was “full of hate” — and confessed to his dad, who is reportedly a veteran law enforcement officer, that he was the killer.
Discord chats with his roommate also showed him arranging to have a rifle hidden in a towel near the sniper’s nest, where it was found soon after Kirk’s assassination.
He wrote on hullets found at the scene, “If you read this, you are gay LMAO” — and “Hey fascist! Catch!” aimed at the conservative debater.
Initial reports described the suspect as a gunman wearing jeans, a black shirt, and a black vest perched with a long rifle atop a building east of the school’s library.
Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Point USA and a dad of two, had just answered a question from an audience member about mass shootings committed by transgender people at the outdoor event on the campus in Orem when he was hit by a single round.
The Utah governor praised the family members of the suspect, Tyler Robinson, who “did the right thing” by handing the suspect to authorities.
“I especially want to thank the family of Charlie Kirk,” the governor also told the news conference, adding: “I want us to be thinking of them as we bring justice to this case.”
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