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PROVO, Utah (NewsNation) — Prosecutors successful Utah are preparing to record a superior execution complaint against the antheral accused of assassinating blimpish activistic Charlie Kirk.
Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah native, is scheduled to look successful tribunal Tuesday, wherever helium is expected to beryllium formally charged with aggregate felonies, including aggravated murder, discharge of a firearm and obstruction of justice. The aggravated execution number carries the anticipation of the decease punishment or, astatine a minimum, 25 years successful prison.
Robinson volition look via video nexus from the region jail, wherever helium has been held without bail since his arrest. It was unclear Tuesday greeting whether helium had an attorney.
FBI Director Kash Patel precocious revealed caller grounds tying Robinson to the country of past week's shooting astatine Utah Valley University, wherever Kirk was speaking. Kirk, co-founder of Turning Point USA and an state of President Donald Trump, was wide credited with energizing young Republican voters and playing a cardinal relation successful Trump’s 2024 statesmanlike victory.
Patel said investigators person been piecing unneurotic evidence, including a firearm and ammunition engraved with anti-fascist and meme civilization messaging and references, arsenic good arsenic different items reportedly linked to Robinson done DNA evidence, including a towel wrapped astir a firearm and a screwdriver recovered connected the rooftop wherever the fatal changeable was fired.
Tyler Robinson, connected Sept. 12, 2025. (Utah Governor's Office via AP)Authorities said Robinson near a enactment earlier the shooting stating helium planned to "take retired Kirk," which was aboriginal destroyed, and investigators were inactive moving to find a motive.
Federal and authorities authorities person alleged Robinson was radicalized by "leftist ideology," citing a reportedly romanticist narration with a transgender woman.
Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray’s bureau is expected to record the charges formally Tuesday, followed by a quality conference.
