Suspect in Charlie Kirk assassination case faces court hearing

PROVO, Utah -- The 22-year-old antheral charged with sidesplitting Charlie Kirk volition person a tribunal proceeding Monday wherever helium and his recently appointed ineligible counsel volition determine whether they privation a preliminary proceeding wherever the justice volition find if determination is capable grounds against him to spell guardant with a trial.

Prosecutors person charged Tyler Robinson with aggravated execution and program to question the decease penalty.

Utah's tribunal strategy gives radical accused of crimes an enactment to waive their ineligible close to a preliminary proceeding and alternatively docket an arraignment wherever they tin participate a plea.

This photograph released by the Utah Governor's Office connected Friday, Sept. 12, 2025 shows Tyler Robinson.

Utah Governor's Office via AP

Kathryn Nester, the pb lawyer appointed to correspond Robinson, declined to remark up of Monday's hearing. Prosecutors astatine the Utah County Attorney's Office did not respond to email and telephone messages seeking comment.

The proceeding successful Provo is unfastened to the public, conscionable a fewer miles from the Utah Valley University field successful Orem wherever galore students are inactive processing trauma from the Sept. 10 shooting and the day-and-a-half hunt for the suspect.

Authorities arrested Robinson erstwhile helium showed up with his parents astatine his hometown sheriff's bureau successful southwest Utah, much than a three-hour thrust from the tract of the shooting, to crook himself in. Prosecutors person since revealed incriminating substance messages and DNA grounds that they accidental link Robinson to the killing.

A enactment that Robinson had near for his romanticist spouse earlier the shooting said helium had the accidental to termination 1 of the nation's starring blimpish voices, "and I'm going to instrumentality it," Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray told reporters earlier the archetypal hearing. Gray besides said that Robinson wrote successful a substance astir Kirk to his partner: "I had capable of his hatred."

The assassination of Kirk, a adjacent state of President Donald Trump who worked to steer young voters toward conservatism, has galvanized Republicans who person vowed to transportation connected Kirk's ngo of moving American authorities further right.

Trump has declared Kirk a "martyr" for state and threatened to ace down connected what helium called the "radical left."

Workers crossed the U.S. person been punished oregon fired for speaking retired astir Kirk aft his death, including teachers, nationalist and backstage employees and media personalities - astir notably Jimmy Kimmel, whose late-night amusement was suspended past reinstated by ABC.

Kirk's governmental organization, Arizona-based Turning Point USA, brought young, evangelical Christians into authorities done his podcast, societal media and field events. Many salient Republicans are filling successful astatine the upcoming field events Kirk planned to attend, including Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Sen. Mike Lee astatine Utah State University connected Tuesday.