The man suspected of fatally shooting American conservative activist Charlie Kirk is finally in custody following a two-day federal manhunt, authorities have confirmed.
Utah Governor Spencer Cox named Tyler Robinson, 22, as the suspected shooter at a news conference on Friday, after United States President Donald Trump himself announced that a suspect had been arrested. “We got him,” Cox said.
He added that a family member of Robinson’s had reached out to a friend who contacted the authorities, and that friends and family members of Robinson, who had been interviewed by investigators, had described him as “full of hate” when discussing Charlie Kirk at a recent social gathering.
Robinson is understood to be a local resident, not a student at the university.
Here is what we know so far:
Before the announcement from Governor Cox and the FBI on Friday morning local time, Trump told the Fox News programme, Fox & Friends, that Kirk’s shooter was finally in custody.
“I think with a high degree of certainty, we have him,” Trump told the programme, adding that someone “very close to him turned him in”.
He also said the shooter had been apprehended “five minutes before I walked in” to the TV interview.
Trump said he hoped Kirk’s shooter would receive the death penalty and praised Kirk, expressing sadness over his death.
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