A mugshot has been released of the 22-year-old whom police believe is responsible for the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday.
Two photos of Tyler Robinson, a Utah resident, were released by authorities on Friday following questioning that lasted well into the night. He was arrested around 11 p.m. local time at his family home in the city of Washington, which sits about 260 miles away from the college campus where Kirk was shot and killed.
President Donald Trump appeared for an in-person Fox News interview on Friday, where he confirmed that Robinson reached out to a family friend to admit his guilt. He also spoke with his father, Matthew, a 27-year veteran of the Washington County Sheriff’s Department, who called authorities and held his son until they arrived to arrest him.
At a Friday news conference announcing Robinson’s arrest, Utah Governor Spencer Cox said the attack on Kirk “cuts to the very foundation of who we are” as a state and nation.
The “political assassination” of Kirk is “much bigger than an attack on an individual,” Cox said.
