A suspect has been arrested in the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, authorities announced on Friday.
Tyler Robinson was supposedly the person who shot and killed Kirk on Wednesday, Utah’s governor Spencer Cox, confirmed at a press conference in Utah on Friday.
“We have it,” Cox said at a press conference on Friday.
The press conference occurred shortly after President Donald Trump confirmed that they had the alleged handle in custody.
“I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have it in custody,” Trump said in “Fox AND Friends “Friday morning.
He later added: “Subject to change, but the facts are the facts we have to the person we believe is the person we are looking for.”
The Utah Public Security Department published new images of the person of interest in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.
Utah Public Security Department
Trump said they told him only five minutes before airing for the previous interview that someone was in custody.
“Essentially, someone who was very close to him delivered it,” Trump said.
Trump said the father of the suspect went to the authorities and convinced the son “and this is,” said the president.
The father of the suspect identified his son as the person sought by the police in photographs distributed by the authorities, according to Fuentes.
The father told his son to be delivered, sources said. The son initially said no, but then changed his mind.
Trump reiterated in the interview that the shooter should obtain the death penalty.
“In Utah, you have death Penalty, and a good governor there, I have come to know him, “Trump said about Governor Spencer Cox.” The governor intends to death grief In this case and should be. “
In the last video of the suspect, which was played during a press conference with state and federal officials on Thursday night, you can see the apparent gunman down from the roof of a building on the campus of the University of Utah Valley, where the authorities believe that he shot the fatal shot and fled the scene.
A Still of a video released by the FBI of the alleged gunman in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.
FBI
The FBI said he was offering a reward of up to $ 100,000 for information that leads to the identification and arrest of the person responsible for Kirk’s murder.
The Utah authorities published photos of the person of interest in the shooting on Thursday in which the individual can be seen up the stairs to the top of the building where the shooting took place while carrying a black backpack and wears a shirt with what appeared to be an American flag print in it.
Until now, the authorities have received more than 7,000 tips and leaders and completed about 200 interviews, Cox said Thursday.
Amid the human hunting of the shooter, the authorities said Thursday that they are working “throughout the day” to locate the person of interest, which is believed to be aged at the university.
The FBI also said Thursday that it has recovered what is believed to be the weapon used in the deadly shooting. A “high -power bolt action rifle” was recovered in a wooded area near where the shooting took place, according to the special agent of Salt Lake City by Robert Bohls.
The rifle is an older model of imported mauser .30-06 The caliber bolt action rifle wrapped in a towel, told ABC News to ABC News. The location of the firearm seems to coincide with the travel route of the suspect, the fountains said.
This Amy King video capture shows the activist and influential youth of the right Charlie Kirk speaking during a public event at the University of Utah Valley minutes before he filmed it in OEM, Utah, on September 10, 2025.
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The spent cartridge was still in chamber and three unbounded cartridges contained writing on them expressing what some officials responsible for enforcing the law described as a “transgender and anti -fascist” writing, according to preliminary information shared with the agencies. It is not clear what that means and the authorities are still working to determine the meaning or if the brands were destined as a bad direction for the researchers.
The authorities said that at 11:52 am on Wednesday, the suspect arrived at the OREM campus and then proceeded to travel the stairs to the roof of a building near the place where the outdoor event was held, before the shooter shot in Kirk, the Utah public security commissioner, Beau Mason, Beau Mason, on Thursday.
Kirk was beaten by a single shot at 12:20 pm and taken to a hospital, where he was declared dead, authorities said.
The flags, candles and signs sit in a vigil for Charlie Kirk, CEO and co -founder of Turning Point USA, which was shot dead, on Thursday, September 11, 2025, in OREM, Utah.
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After the shooting, the alleged shooter traveled to the other side of the building, jumped and fled off the campus to a neighborhood, Mason said. The authorities are working in nearby neighborhoods, contacting people with bell cameras and talking with witnesses to identify any potential client, Mason said.
“I want to make it clear at this time who has done this, we will find it. We will try it and we will do it responsible for the greatest measure of the law,” Cox said during an informative session on Wednesday, qualifying the fatal shooting as a “political murder.”
He said that state officials are already moving to follow the death penalty if the case goes to trial.
