Family of Tyler Robinson live in Washington, a city of 35,000 people 260 miles from where Kirk was killed during event
The quiet neighborhood was like many others in the sun-baked city of Washington, Utah, which lies amid the red rock and sagebrush mesas of the Utah-Arizona borderlands.
Just hours before, news had broken that law enforcement had arrested a suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk, the far-right influencer and Turning Point USA co-founder.
That suspect was Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old college student who they said confessed to his family that he had shot and killed Kirk earlier this week.
Public records showed that Robinson’s family lived here in Washington, a small city of 35,000 people located about 260 miles (420km) south-west of Orem, where Kirk was killed during a public event on a college campus. His death has reverberated across the world and thrust Utah into the national spotlight.
