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The fishy arrested successful the fatal shooting Charlie Kirk had an "obsession" with the blimpish influencer, based connected the alleged shooter's integer footprint, FBI Co-Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Monday connected Fox News.
Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah native, is accused of fatally shooting Kirk during an lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University connected Aug. 10.
Bongino said the fishy appeared to person exhibited "multiple informing signs."
Mugshot of Tyler Robinson, the fishy successful the shooting of Charlie Kirk.
Courtesy of Gov. Spencer Cox
"I judge co-workers stated helium had detached himself erstwhile the taxable of authorities came up and walked away," Bongino said connected Fox News.
Bongino said they are looking into whether anyone knew the shooting could hap and didn't alert authorities, referring to online chats Robinson allegedly had astir Kirk.
"Did they ... perceive it and deliberation it was a joke? That is what we're trying to find retired now," helium told Fox News. "If determination is simply a larger web here, we volition get that retired to the nationalist arsenic soon arsenic we can."
FBI Director Kash Patel besides announced connected "Fox & Friends" that DNA recovered astatine the transgression scene, specifically the towel wrapped astir the firearm utilized successful the shooting, and connected a screwdriver, links Robinson to the sidesplitting of the blimpish influencer.
Robinson was arrested past week for felony discharge of a firearm, aggravated execution and obstruction of justice, according to probable origin documents, and was booked into the Utah County Jail.
Charging documents against Robison are expected to beryllium filed aboriginal this week, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said connected Friday.
Robinson was apprehended aft his begetter recognized him successful photographs released by authorities, Cox said connected Friday. His begetter told Robinson to crook himself in, with the 22-year-old initially saying no, but aboriginal changing his mind, officials said.
The begetter past called a younker pastor, who is besides a U.S. Marshals task unit officer. The serviceman advised the begetter to person Robinson enactment successful place. This accusation was past conveyed to the FBI.
Cox thanked Robinson's family, who "did the close thing."
Investigators besides interviewed a household subordinate of Robinson who said the fishy had "become much governmental successful caller years," Cox said.
In a caller incidental the household subordinate elaborate to investigators, Robinson came to meal and successful a speech with different household subordinate helium mentioned Kirk was coming to Utah Valley University. They talked astir wherefore they didn't similar him and his viewpoints.
People mourn Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk astatine a memorial acceptable up extracurricular of the Turning Point USA office connected September 12, 2025 successful Phoenix, Arizona.
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President Donald Trump, who announced Friday connected "Fox & Friends" that the suspected shooter was successful custody, said Robinson should get the decease penalty.
"In Utah, you person decease penalty, and a bully politician there, I person gotten to cognize him," Trump said of Cox. "The politician is intent connected the decease punishment successful this lawsuit and helium should be."
Before the apprehension of the alleged shooter, officials said they had obtained "good" video footage of the idiosyncratic and were capable to way the movements of the suspect.
On the time of the shooting astatine astir 11:52 a.m., the fishy arrived connected the Orem field and past proceeded to question done the stairwells up to the extortion of the gathering adjacent wherever the outdoor lawsuit was taking place, earlier the fishy fired down astatine Kirk, Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Beau Mason said past week.
Kirk was deed by a azygous changeable astatine astir 12:20 p.m. and taken to a hospital, wherever helium was pronounced dead, authorities said.
After the shooting, the fishy traveled to the different broadside of the building, jumped disconnected and fled off-campus into a neighborhood, Mason said.
On Friday, Erika Kirk, the blimpish commentator's wife, said "no 1 volition ever hide my husband's name."
"You person nary thought the occurrence that you person ignited wrong this wife, the cries of this widow volition echo astir the satellite similar a conflict cry," Erika Kirk said connected Friday successful her archetypal nationalist connection since her husband's death.
ABC News' Luke Barr contributed to this report.
