The man accused of killing conservative influencer Charlie Kirk last week had joked that the shooter was his 'doppelganger' hours before he was arrested.
Tyler Robinson, 22, was taken into custody on Friday in connection with the assassination at Utah Valley University that shocked the world.
It took authorities nearly two days to identify and arrest a suspect, forcing them to release surveillance photos of a suspect wearing a long-sleeved dark top, long pants, sunglasses and a baseball cap with a triangle on it at the university.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has since confirmed that investigators determined Robinson was actively joking with acquaintances on the messaging platform Discord after they noticed he resembled Kirk's shooter.
'Those conversations definitely were happening,' the governor told ABC News. 'And they did not believe it was actually him - it was all joking until he admitted that it actually was him.'
