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(NewsNation) — As caller accusation sheds airy connected the imaginable motive of governmental activistic Charlie Kirk's accused assassin, the Utah Valley University campus, wherever the sidesplitting occurred, is expected to reopen Monday morning.
A phased instrumentality for unit and students is expected to statesman Monday, though classes won't resume until Wednesday, a week aft the fatal shooting.
The assemblage has worked rapidly to wide the grassy country of transgression portion wherever Kirk's "American Comeback Tour" structure had stood successful the field courtyard. Soil was being removed for the installation of caller pavers adjacent the spot wherever Kirk had answered a question astir wide shootings erstwhile helium was changeable and killed.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, has said Tyler Robinson, the antheral accused of sidesplitting Kirk, was romantically progressive with a roommate who has been described arsenic cooperative with the investigation. Cox said Robinson has not cooperated. The 22-year-old is being held successful a peculiar lodging portion of the Utah County Jail.
"We tin corroborate that, again, according to household and radical that we're interviewing, helium does travel from a blimpish family. But his ideology was precise antithetic than his family, and truthful that's portion of it," Cox said successful an interrogation with NBC's "Meet the Press." "We bash cognize that the roommate that we had primitively talked about, we tin corroborate that that roommate is simply a fellow who is transitioning from antheral to female."
More accusation is expected Tuesday, erstwhile Robinson has his archetypal tribunal quality and volition beryllium formally charged with aggregate felonies, including aggravated murder.
Kirk's "American Comeback Tour" drew much than 3,000 attendees to the university's campus, and galore person said they're inactive shaken and everlastingly changed.
Police person said a azygous gunshot fired from a adjacent rooftop deed Kirk successful the neck, giving galore attendees a beforehand enactment spot to the tragedy. Students who attended the lawsuit said they are inactive traumatized.
"I was inactive trying to cleanable my laundry and cleanable the apparel that I had worn that day," said pupil Danielle Conners. "Thinking of the pants that I had the stains connected ... Like, I can't adjacent cleanable my clothes. I can't spell to work. I can't spell to schoolhouse … I consciousness similar I can't bash anything."
The assemblage has offered on-site intelligence wellness enactment for students and staff.
