FBI presser to be live-streamed below. Live-blog at bottom of post.
President Trump announced early Friday that a suspect for Charlie Kirk’s assassination was turned in by his father — with law enforcement sources telling The Post it is a 22-year-old Utah local, Tyler Robinson. “I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” during a live interview at the cable giant’s Manhattan studio, saying he heard just minutes before his 8 a.m. interview. “Somebody who was very close to him turned him in,” the president said, then revealing it was the suspect’s dad who relayed it through “a minister who was involved with law enforcement.” Article
CNN reports the suspect confessed to his father, who promptly notified law enforcement.
The FBI released video of the shooter leaving the scene.
Update: FBI Press conference notes.
Tyler Robinson was turned in by a family member. He arrived on campus in a gray Dodge Challenger. Family member said he became more political in recent years.
He discussed Kirk at a recent family dinner, saying he was full of hate. Robinson's roommate showed him Discord messages. Tyler said he needed to retrieve a rifle he left in a bush in one message. He said he left it wrapped in a towel. The message referred to engravings on bullets.
Robinson changed clothes on the roof.
Investigators found a Mauser 98 model, scoped, in 30.06. Three cases said "Hey fascists?", "Catch". "If you read this, you are gay, LMAO."
FBI had offered a $100,000 reward.
Suspect was arrested at 10 PM yesterday.
Patel said he would see his friend Charlie Kirk "in Valahalla." Oooooooook.
The Governor said there is no information at this time that will lead to more arrests.
Robinson is being held at the Utah County jail. He lived in Washington County. The Governor said Robinson's friend and father turned him in to law enforcement. Robinson was not a student and lived with his family.
"Social media is a cancer," said the Governor.
It takes up to three days to file charging documents in Utah.
95 comments:
Yep it is going to be all nice and tidy just like JFK, MLK, Malcolm X, and 9/11.
May justice be served
Thank goodness they caught him alive.. Will hopefully get some answers
Is that the same jeans and shoes he had on? they can match that with forensics
What a terrible time we live in when kids think it's ok to just shoot people they disagree with
Please no Patriot Act 2.0!!
The deer rifle in the pants leg never made any sense.
Just got an X link text "Something's wrong...we're supposed to believe a guy is on the run after killing Charlie Kirk, and he pauses in the woods to reinstall a barrel and then he leaves it for us to find?"
Willing to bet this guy won’t fit y’all’s narrative.
There is a 0% chance you are correct, @8:52.
I see a lot of ppl don’t know who Charlie Kirk was, so I’ll enlighten you , He believed that teaching race & certain histories in schools were “teaching kids to hate America & white people.” He pushed that belief so hard it got teachers fired and books banned.
He swore white privilege was a myth, dragged Black Lives Matter every chance he got, and always defended police brutality. He hated immigration and pushed the idea that Black and brown ppl weren’t as capable as whites. He had a bad ass habit of clowning & mocking Black women leaders, calling them DEI hires & downplaying their accomplishments.
He mocked feminism and believed that men were more capable than women.
He publicly argued that even children who are R.APED should still be forced to carry the pregnancy.
He was one of the LOUDEST pro-gun voices out here & FOUGHT against gun control, preaching about how they keep us safe, only for one to end him. And it’s wild how y’all say “don’t speak ill of the dead” when this man never missed a chance to disrespect George Floyd in death, calling him a scumbag.
Seeing y’all try to rewrite him as some “man of love and peace” is absolutely INSANE & it’s aggravating me & my homegirls because I wasn’t even gonna say anything. His speeches pitted ppl against each other. His whole brand was hate, division, and fear.
willing to bet this guy is a patsy just like in thr past.
Do you understand what people mean when they talk about the Grassy Knoll? That is because Lee Harvey Oswald (the patsy) was a vocal communist and set up in the book repository. He didnt kill JFK.
The most powerful mobster in American history Meyer Lansky’s had one of his assasisins kill him from the grassy knoll.
Now why is this important? JFK was fighting corruption in his own government. The Mob was so deeply entrenched that they owned elected and non-elected officials. JFK had to be stopped. And our own government covered it all up.
8:52 AM may be right. Never understood how LEO and the media screamed this was a politically motivated without yet having the killer.
But, with the joyous responses to Kirk’s assassination that we’ve seen from Democrats, the political division damage is done.
This is a messed-up society. Some people can't handle freedom. Just look at some of the comments on JJ. They see a conspiracy in every new report. What a crazy way to live.
Feel bad for the guy's parents. Imagine finding out your child did such a horrible thing.
This guy was transgender and had an axe to grind. Trans-tifa, no doubt. The next generation doesn't have a problem with just shooting those they disagree with, even if someone is trying to tell them the truth
Yep, you should never ask questions, you should always take the party line, the powerful have no reason to lie or obfuscate
Charlie preached that it was okay. We need to protect out 2nd Amendment rights.
Mr. Robinson the father carried out a difficult duty to America and declined the $100,000 bounty for it. That man will feel the pain of regret and the despair of self blame for the rest of his life. We should pray for his recovery from this tragedy.
How was this book published on the 9th when he was shot on the 10th? https://web.archive.org/web/20250911163616/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQMF466K
At 22 I wanted to fist fight cops who mistreated me as a student who jay walked (safely)to the laundromat and ran stop signs (safely) on a bicycle as a student riding to and from campus on mostly empty streets. But I went to jail for jay walking and not paying my bicycle traffic tickets.
Should we? Thanks mom.
Should I tie my shoes too? Both of em? Should I use soap when I wash my hands?
Good Lord, he's 22. Apparently from a normal family -- when the kid confessed to his dad, the dad told him to turn himself in and then contacted their youth pastor to help with the surrender.
THIS is why we've got to tone down the rhetoric -- there are young, unstable minds absorbing all the verbal hate and turning it into acts of hate.
Megan McArdle wrote the following this morning: "The most obvious place to start is with the legions of keyboard warriors, 101st Chairborne Division, who enjoy spinning online fantasies about hurting their political opponents — or glorifying those who do, like Luigi Mangione. Almost all those people are just talking, trying to signal their ideological purity or make themselves feel tougher and more courageous than their nondescript white-collar job would otherwise suggest. But they are giving ideas to those who want to do more than talk, including the idea that hurting other people can be a shortcut to fame. So stand down and knock it off. You are not a member of the online French Resistance; you are a soft and silly adolescent engaging in performative sociopathy to compensate for your real-world deficits.
Speaking of the French Resistance — another way to lessen the risk of political violence is to stop amplifying your political disputes into existential threats.
There has long been a left-wing cottage industry using dodgy data to conjure up an exaggerated threat from right-wing “domestic terrorism.” (The threat exists, but the numbers thrown around are inflated.) On liberal social media, one cannot go long without stumbling across some expert claiming to have diagnosed America’s descent into fascism, rather than more ordinarily bad governance. There are just as many self-panickers on the right ranting about deep state conspiracies and cultural Marxism. In the wake of Kirk’s shooting, some of those folks announced that “they” had declared war on conservatives, as if the entire left (most of whom were appropriately horrified by the killing) had voted to put a guy on that rooftop. With relish, conservatives shared and reshared the same handful of low-follower social media accounts celebrating the violence.
In a country of more than 340 million people, there will be people who do terrible things and many more who say terrible things — but while these people are too numerous, they are statistically a tiny share of our overwhelmingly sane and law-abiding electorate. Acting as if they are representative or comparing your opponents to your least favorite dictatorship, risks provoking weak minds to violent countermeasures against the dire threat you’ve conjured.
Which brings me to a final point: Stop monstering your opponents. In the wake of Kirk’s killing, a lot of the responses from the left ran along the lines of, “Sure, he was human garbage, but you still shouldn’t kill him.” When others pushed back, people stood their ground. Why shouldn’t we speak ill of the dead or those who offered respectful eulogies, if they were terrible people?
One answer is that it’s a bit cowardly to criticize the dead, who can’t reply. Another is that politically, it’s a bad look; adding to the pain of a family in mourning seems spiteful and petty in the face of the momentousness of death. But the most important answer is that this country needs fewer impassioned denunciations and more understanding of our opponents as complicated people who can hold bad ideas while also exhibiting praiseworthy virtues.
Of course, it’s more satisfying to fight monsters than flawed humans who are, like you, struggling their way through this vale of tears. But if you insist on hunting for monsters, you run the risk that some of your hunting companions will decide to go in for the kill."
@9:32
Meh, the father had been in law enforcement 27 years and knew the boy's days were numbered. I think he turned him in hoping for a "life" sentence rather than a death penalty.
@ 9:23 am
It appears that bullets, the hatred and the violence are coming left to right. Maybe its time for you to lead by example rather virtue signaling everytime something happens. You are the typical leftist elitist that has all the answers for everyone else but doesn't heed your own advice. Your comments just now speak volumes about the type of individual that you are, maybe its time to do a little soul searching and look into a mirror. This man was killed because he was willing to have a conversation with you.
9:43 according to what's been reported, he was not "turned in" by any member of his family. Authorities said a family member confided in a friend what had happened, and the friend notified authorities.
The assassinations of MLK and Charlie Kirk are identical. This is not to compare the men, but to acknowledge that both assassinations were reactions to their beliefs, their words, their speeches, their thoughts and the fact that they had platforms somebody found objectionable.
When you can't control the speech of others, when you can't debate them and don't want to reason with them and understand them, too often the urge is to silence them.
In that case the family member was an accessory .
You is 'y'all' and what is 'the narrative'?
@8:52 "Willing to bet this guy won’t fit y’all’s narrative."
"He arrived on campus in a gray Dodge Challenger."
While I know what you are talking about, being "Wyt" I think is how y'all and the lady from Ole Miss stated, this little excerpt fits a narrative....It's always a Dodge Charger or Challenger...
Robinson confessed and surrendered, saying he personally disliked Kirk.
Patel said the father turned him in. He should know.
I think the difference in the 'patsy' theory is: this guy confessed to doing it. Lee Harvey Oswald, Terry Nichols, etc never admitted to anything
Sounds like he watched a little too much MSNBC
This will piss some people off. Another distinct difference is that Charlie Kirk did not have a cocaine habit and a penchant for hookers.
Easy, it was a different title when it was first published then they changed the name on Amazon. Your link is a backup from the 11th. I’ve run into this issue with Amazon products. It’s a commonly used as a scam to use reviews from one product on an entirely different product.
@10:01 "Robinson confessed and surrendered, saying he personally disliked Kirk". And yet I doubt he had ever met Kirk, had a conversation with him, gotten to personally know him.
@10:02 - Patel has said a lot of crap that turned out to be fake. You are right that he should know, but he doesn’t in many cases.
@10:21 - Charlie Kirk was much more dangerous to American ideals. He was an extremist who said the civil rights act was a mistake and vilified lgbt and minorities. He wanted end the separation of church and state to turn the country into a haven of white nationalism. We will see what all skeletons were hiding in his personal life closet, but I’d be willing to bet he’s not the choir boy you’ve made him out to be.
@10:29 - professional trolls are taking a risk for their notoriety. He probably never met Charlie, but he almost certainly knew his persona and publicly stated positions . The whole thing has turned into professional wrestling. Charlie played the part of the heel to make money. That may or may not have been what he truly believed.
Bingo! You get it. In recent days, both Meryl Nass and Rob Braxman have warned us about the possibility of flip-a-switch/turnkey-totalitarianism. After that, the Surveilance State will have been advanced, and the world will be effectively in chains. All that was needed was an excuse.
The fact that Mainstream Media are covering this so heavily (when they routinely ignore far bigger things), tells me there's "bipartisan" participation in whatever this is. Whenever there's a bipartisanship, be very afraid.
@9:59 The same for Malcolm X. Once he stopped blaming the “white man” and started saying we all had a common enemy (((white liberals))) he too was killed.
@10:41 maybe you are correct. But it's telling about society that someone who was wholly against racism and discrimination, promoted the family, fought for the life of the unborn, understood the importance of the Constitution, believed in equality for all, and advocated for free speech, would be known as a "heel".
Good luck
Demonizing the opposition is the first rule of all politics and has been forever.
This is all way too convenient. Like when they found the immaculate passports of the 9/11 hijackers on top of the rubble.
10:39- obey laws, don’t have bastard kids, take care of yourself and your family, treat everyone fairly?
Kirk was the living embodiment of American Ideas, you dumb tw*t.
@9:20 - quit making up BS, it doesn’t help anything.
Got a source for your claim that the bullets are coming from the left to the right? The data says the opposite.
10:36am
Patel, as FBI Director, compared to Biden's deceitful FBI lackeys is comparing Michelangelo's Art to Hunter Biden's. I have been proud of Patel and all of Trump's appointments in his Cabinet and Administration. BTW, it is true and widely reported that the Father and a family friend turned the shooter in to Law Enforcement.
@11:02 - dumb tw*t huh? You just agree with the hate he spewed so you see it as reasonable. Many people see the hate for what it was, hate. Too bad more Christians don’t live the words they preach.
@11:11 - bless your heart.
What exactly did you say you would classify as hate? Specific statements.
September 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM, you say he preached hate, where is a link to his statements?
Good luck empanelling a jury.
The profile to me seems like poorly-adjusted adult children, living with their parents, unemployed/part-time minimum wage job, who spend way too much time online.
In other words, failure to launch.
"Good luck empanelling a jury."
Because of the media attention, or because Utah is known to be such a liberal, soft on crime "blue state"?
KF Specific Examples:
He called the Civil Rights Act a mistake.
He described MLK as "awful" and "not a good person".
He said "If i see a Black Pilot, I'm going to be like "boy, i hope is qualified".
He said Michelle Obama, Joy Reid, Sheila Jackson Lee & Kentanji Brown Jackson do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously and have only had success in life because of DEI.
Last week he stated that Taylor Swift should "submit to her husband, you're not in charge"
He has well documented contempt for african americans, foreigners, women who aspire to have careers, gay people and every person left of center. Please do not pretend that is not the case, its disingenuous.
Thankfully, Elon is leaving up all the tweets on X where people have noticed in recordings of the two men behind Charlie cleary making tactical hand gestures such as touching their hats, then noses, then fingers on their chests, etc. Who are they talking to? https://colemans.com/surplus-guide/post/military-hand-signals
So, if someone says any of that does that mean you (any individual) has a right or obligation to kill or harm them? No matter what you say, I have a choice not to do anything to you. Words only hurt if you allow them to. People need to stop being so sensitive to what other people say.
9:21, no one thinks that way but liberals
To sum up the post, you didn’t know who he was either.
The father did the right thing by turning him in. He should be proud that he did a courageous thing in the light of this tragedy.
9:05. Can you share a few video examples?
10:36, seeding hate I see.
I reported multiple people on X yesterday for "inciting or glorifying violence" as they laughed at a murdered father on social media and praised his assassin. None were considered violations. Shameful.
@9:05
I'm convinced you hated Kirk more than the shooter. Bet yesterday was one of your best days on the planet.
10:01, the crazy part is the guy could have just had a conversation with Charlie at that event. Maybe, he could have said his peace and went his on way. He chose to k
I expect a liberal judge giving the guy low bail and letting him walk. That seems to be the going play for these judges.
Kirk was killed with an old bolt action rifle, a hunting rifle . The kids killed in Denver were killed with a revolver. No AR-15's were used. High capacity Glocks or magazines were not used. The guns used would have been permissible under most gun control policies short of total bans.
Any list questioning the "brain processing power" of certain women that doesn't include Kamala is grossly incomplete but he got the others correct though.
Joy Reid IS an idiot. Dumb. A buffoon. A race-baiter. Sheila Jackson Limousine Lee wasn't the sharpest tool either, no Condi Rice was she.
You a DEI poster ?
September 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM; all you and many others have done is show just how ignorant or willfully stupid you are. every "example" you cited is a media-parsed, out of context, snippet of a well reasoned explanation Charlie has given many times for what he believed and why he believed it.
if you would even bother to watch the entire segments for each of your "examples," you would see that what you and others have written is complete bullshit. but you won't.
those of you that celebrate his death are obviously ok with people murdering each other with differing philosophical, religious, political, and ideological beliefs. so, keep your fucking mouths shut when a democrat gets their ass shot dead by a conservative. i mean, after all, according to your celebrations of a murdered conservative, you're ok with people getting murdered for simply disagreeing with you. or is it only ok when a degenerate leftist liberal democrat murders a conservative?
Nothing Charlie ever said was hateful. You can’t even compare him to someone like George Lincoln Rockwell or William Luther Pierce. Maybe that’s the real problem? Too many years have passed since the left has seen real hate (besides their own) and this is possibly because they try so hard to erase history. You take all these young people who were born after all the real voices of hate were silenced. They think even the most mild criticism of leftist degeneracy is genuine hate speech!
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/george-lincoln-rockwell-attend-nation-islam-1961/
Charlie Kirk was a piece of crap. Trump is a fool. I support the 2nd amendment. Love one another.
The press is offering irrefutable proof that Tyler Robinson was not MAGA: he had a 4.0 GPA and scored 34 on the ACT (99th percentile).
12:39 PM, more and more African Americans (DeVory Darkins, Brandon Lehman, and the list goes on) are on YouTube bashing Democrats and their scam policies as well. Brandon Lehman calls Jasmine “Ghetto Crockett” and Hakeem Jeffries “Walmart Obama.”
You know why? Because many African Americans are sick of the White Liberal Democrats scam that’s ruined their families and communities.
Six decades ago Malcom X warned us that White Liberals are “the most dangerous thing in the entire Western Hemisphere.”
Robert L Bob Woodson told us “in the civil rights movement, one of the great promises we (blacks) gave to low income blacks, is if you were to elect blacks to public office through the voting rights act, and we (blacks) were running those institutions, that all of black America would be better off.” But the opposite has occurred.
Shelby Steel showed us in his documentary “What (really) killed Michael Brown.”
You and your Democrat Party are tickled that Charlie Kirk was assassinated for his views. Assume you’re glad Malcom was assassinate as well. So, are you also ready for DeVory Darkins, Brandon Lehman, Bob Woodson, Shelby Steel and all of the other conservative African Americans that say things you disagree with, to be murdered as well?
Podcaster & children’s book author Kash Patel didn’t exactly cover himself in glory. This was a distraction from his main duty: wrecking the FBI.
George Floyd was a scum bag. And the only reason you think what Kirk was hate speech is because you hated it. Which is why we needed it. He didn't have a habit of clowning black women. He called them out on their own admitted diversity hiring. He was for earning positions not being handed them for skin color. He didn't care what race or color you were if you were more qualified than another. But that doesn't fit your race victim narrative so let's ignore that, shall we?
I've read a lot of comments on JJ that refuse to recommend Charlie Kirk for sainthood, or even call him a POS. But I haven't seen many, if any, actually celebrating his murder.
As much as guys like 2:11 wish it so, it just isn't happening here. If you really want to fight that battle, go back to Facebook or X and bitch all you want.
Fast-forward 10 years… Charlie Kirk’s bio will read like this:
‘Charlie Kirk was a radicalized young white man who fell into the MAGA machine with about 1/3 of the country.
The radicalization of white men in America—fueled by Trump—was so deep it even reached the assassin who ended Kirk’s life.
So why is/was he in trade school rather than college. Not trying to be provocative but really curious.
I’m hoping Kash Patel’s people realize that what they need to be monitoring are the places where troons and furries congregate online and irl. This shooter was the lowest of the low of degenerates. He was a furry. These people are mentally ill. Trangender/AIDS clinics and Anime/Comic conventions and pokemon card stores are where these sick perverts congregate.
Everyone has opinion , the Bird Brains In Trumps Obit include, Pirro, Bondi, Neom, the press secretary and Loomer to booth. That just the woman.
Maybe even too much MSDNC.
What we need are more gun control laws......Just kidding.
3:32 PM, Fast-forward 10 years…Others, especially African Americans, will be continuing Charlie Kirk’s legacy by exposing the White Liberal Democrat scam of using chaos, crime and criminals along with the perversion of children to destroy families in America.
Understand 3:32, we’re not succumbing to your immoral Democrat demands.
If you say Charlie Kirk preached hate, I can show you 100’s of left wing fascists doing the same thing. It all depends on your POV. I’m at least happy they’re firing all the people celebrating his assassination.
" Too bad more Christians don’t live the words they preach.", but you aren't one of those Christians, are you? The fact is, you aren't a Christian. What you are is self-righteous GOD hating hypocrite, that looks down their long nose at everyone else, while judging, and condemning everyone else. That's who you are.
Those liberals are really stinking up the board with all of their droppings, they could pick some of it up.
9:19, I thought about that too. His father is a good man and did the right thing.
11:13- I never said I was a Christian or even believed in God. But if more people lived their lives like Kirk, the world would be a better place, you ignorant moron.
He was a moral and just guy.
"I expect a liberal judge giving the guy low bail and letting him walk. That seems to be the going play for these judges. "
You are correct in so many cases. The difference here is that the FBI will be bringing charges as well. This person will never see the free world again.
No one should be killed for their beliefs. We need to concentrate on what’s important mainly our families safety and welfare. Not hating ones for their views! Don’t burst a blood vessel, take a deep breath and enjoy life! That’s what you can control! Don’t get caught up in the news and social media. If you do they got you. Stay focused on family and your many blessings.
It is long past time for common sense gun control. How many Conservative commentators have to die before you gun nuts accept that fact?
The Right, Conservatives, Republicans, MAGA, etc. aren’t perfect. Kirk was not perfect, nor is Trump, nor anyone in history (besides Christ),nor any of us amongst the living. But it is clear to any sane, rational person, with any hint of morals and decency, that the Left, Democrats, etc are morally bankrupt and perverse. If you think Kirk was full of hate, you either haven’t watched full clips (or any at all and blindly took CNN’s or ABC’s word for it) or you are blinded to the truth that you simply do not like. You are a goat, sheep, a lamb being led to the slaughter. Turn off the legacy news and social media, grab a Bible and read. Then go reevaluate the world. I dare you. But you’re probably too self righteous, or more likely, too scared to challenge your own belief systems, because that’s what Charlie Kirk did. He challenged people to think for themselves and he was killed for it. That in and of itself ought to tell you what you should do. Seek the truth.
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