JUST IN: Political Leanings Of Tyler Robinson’s Parents Revealed

It was only by speaking with his father that 22-year-old Tyler Robinson eventually agreed to confess to the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Now, an online trail of political statements and voting records is helping authorities learn more about his parents’ beliefs and how Robinson’s home life may have influenced his alleged actions.

Today, Matthew Robinson, the suspect’s father, works in construction after previously spending 27 years as an officer with his hometown police department in Washington, Utah. Tyler’s mother, Amber, is a healthcare worker whose company contracts with the state to provide care for residents with disabilities.

Matt Robinson was the first to contact authorities — a colleague in the U.S. Marshal’s, according to President Donald Trump — and kept his son safe and confined until authorities arrived around 11 p.m. Thursday night to place him in custody.

Both parents are registered Republicans, according to online voting records reviewed by the Daily Mail.

Photos of the family do not portray the hatred for Trump and Kirk bubbling beneath the surface within Tyler Robinson, who now faces the possibility of a death penalty conviction for the assassination of Kirk, 31, a young father of two.

One photo stood out, however: In 2017, Robinson is seen wearing a “haunting” Halloween costume featuring himself riding a zombified Trump as if he were a horse. His younger brother stands next to him in a black costume with a toy hunting rifle slung around his back.

The family lives in a $600,000 six-bedroom house in Washington, which sits about 260 miles outside of Orem, the city where Kirk was killed on the campus of Utah Valley University.

Other online photographs indicate that Robinson had been around guns from an early age. In one, he poses next to an M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun.

At a press conference on Friday morning, Utah Governor Spencer Cox stated that family members had admitted Robinson had become “more political in recent years.”

They described returning from a dinner with Robinson, where he “mentioned Charlie Kirk was coming to UVU and mentioned why he didn’t like him.”

Several messages inscribed on shell casings found at the scene match up with messages left on the online platform Discord belonging to a user named “Tyler.” Photos of the messages, shared by Robinson’s college roommate, brag about a “drop point” and “leaving the rifle in a bush.”

“Tyler” also discussed “engraving bullets” with statements and “a mention of a scope and the rifle being unique messages,” Cox stated.

President Trump and Gov. Cox have both stated they would support prosecutors seeking the death penalty for Robinson. Utah is one of 27 states that permit capital punishment, including the option for a firing squad.