Charlie Kirk
Suspect Tyler Robinson in Custody
Father Tipped Off FBI
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The man who allegedly shot Charlie Kirk has been identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson.
Robinson was turned in by his own father, according to President Trump, who broke that news on Fox & Friends Friday morning.
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Robinson is Utah and has been on the run since the Kirk’s assassination Wednesday.
The FBI and Utah’s Governor Spencer Cox held a news conference Thursday night, pleading for the public to provide leads, based on photographs from surveillance video taken at the school where Kirk was shot.
He was wearing a distinctive sweatshirt and his facial features were clear enough that his dad recognized he was the man on the roof when the single shot rang out.
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We do not know the circumstances surrounding the capture and whether Robinson put up a fight.
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