The suspect in Charlie Kirk's assassination has been identified as Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah resident.
Law enforcement sources told Daily Mail that Robinson was taken into custody as the alleged assassin who killed Kirk at a rally at Utah Valley University in Utah on Wednesday.
Trump announced the arrest in an appearance on Fox News, where he said that 'someone very close' to the suspect turned him in.
Sources told the Daily Mail that the killer then confessed to his father, a 27-year veteran of the Washington County Sheriff's Department, public records showed. His father then contacted authorities and secured his son before he could be taken into custody.
His mother, Amber Robinson, works for Intermountain Support Coordination Services, a company contracted by the state of Utah to help disabled people receive care.
