‘Somebody that was very close to him said, that’s him,’ said US President Donald Trump
A young Utah man suspected of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a university in the city of Orem was in custody on Friday, Utah Governor Spencer Cox told reporters.
“We got him,” Cox said. He said investigators arrested Tyler Robinson after a family member alerted authorities that he had confessed, or at least implied involvement, in Kirk’s death.
The tip was passed from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office to investigators at Utah Valley University and the FBI, who then reviewed surveillance footage of Robinson arriving on campus in a grey Dodge Challenger on Wednesday morning.
The video showed him in a plain maroon T-shirt, light-coloured shorts, a black hat with a white logo and light shoes. When investigators encountered him in Washington County in the early hours of Friday, he was wearing clothes consistent with those images, Cox said.
