Tyler Robinson fired a single fatal shot from the rooftop of a building overlooking the outdoor venue where Charlie Kirk was speaking to students.
Robinson, the suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk, appeared virtually for his first court hearing since he was formally charged in the killing of the conservative influencer.
In the meantime, FBI Director Kash Patel shared new details this week as text messages were released of Robinson allegedly admitting to his roommate on the day of the shooting that he had committed the crime, court documents allege.
The roommate of 22-year-old Tyler Robinson questioned him about the incident in a text message exchange.
Robinson first texted his roommate to “drop what you are doing, look under my keyboard” at their shared apartment.
That roommate would find a note that read, “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it,” the court documents state.
Social media is now questioning the entire text exchange, with some not believing that he wrote any of it.
“The constant mentions of the rifle are very unnatural, the discord message is very unnatural too. This is getting sus,” one persons said.
“No zoomer texts like this. The use of words like “vehicle” instead of car, “retrieve” instead of get, no abbreviations, decent grammar, punctuation, and double spacing, which NOBODY UNDER THE AGE OF 40 does. Not buying this,” a second person added.
“Zero young people say “my old man”. I’ve literally never heard it used before by around under 30,” a third person said of Tyler Robinson’s alleged texts after the death of Charlie Kirk.
“We aren’t a serious country if Americans actually believe these texts weren’t written by the FBI,” a final person commented.
Charlie Kirk’s Killer Is Facing A Laundry List of Charges
The alleged killer of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk appeared to take responsibility for the shooting on the messaging platform Discord as well as in released text messages.
Charges were announced Tuesday against Tyler Robinson, who stands accused of shooting and killing Kirk last week while the conservative activist was speaking at Utah Valley University.
Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray charged Robinson with aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm, two counts of obstruction of justice, two counts of witness tampering, and committing a violent offense in the presence of a child.
Gray made it clear that he intends to seek the death penalty against Robinson.
Robinson is being held at the Utah County Jail without bail.
