Surveillance footage of person suspected of fatally shooting the rightwing activist set in motion a rapid series of events
Charlie Kirk shooting – live updates
Fuzzy video footage of Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer racing across a rooftop at Utah Valley University, dropping to the ground and sprinting away in the moments following the conservative activist’s death on Wednesday, was taken from so far away that it could not possibly have revealed his identity.
“You started off with a clip that made him look like an ant,” Donald Trump told Fox News in a Friday morning interview as the US president discussed the killing of the rightwing activist at a campus speaking engagement attended by thousands of students.
But the value to FBI investigators of the public release of the video at about 8pm local time on Thursday night, along with a series of high-definition images of the suspect, was beyond measure. It set into motion a rapid series of events that ended just three hours later with the arrest of 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, who authorities say was identified by a close relative - believed to be his father, a veteran sheriff’s deputy.
