Suspicious arrested, identified in the shooting of Charlie Kirk, the authorities say

A suspect has been arrested in the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, authorities announced on Friday.

Tyler Robinson, a native of Utah, was identified as the person who shot and killed Kirk on Wednesday, Utah governor Spencer Cox said Friday at a press conference in Utah.

“Ladies and gentlemen, we have it,” Cox said at a press conference on Friday.

Robinson, 22, has been hired in the Utah County prison. The collection documents against Robinson are expected to be presented at the beginning of next week, Cox said.

It was arrested for the discharge of a firearm, aggravated murder and the obstruction of justice, according to the probable cause documents.

“I want to thank Tyler Robinson’s family members, who did the right thing in this case and could take him to the police,” Cox said.

A family friend contacted the Washington County Sheriff’s office on Thursday night, telling them Robinson confessed or implied that he had killed Kirk, Cox said.

The researchers interviewed a member of Robinson’s family who said the suspect “had become more political in recent years,” Cox said.

In a recent incident, the family member detailed to the researchers, Robinson came to dinner and in a conversation with another family member who mentioned that Kirk would come to the University of Utah Valley. They talked about why they didn’t like him and his views.

Forensic evidence has been seized and continues to gather. Forensic evidence has already been evaluated in FBI laboratories in Quantico, said FBI director Kash Patel. More than 11,000 tracks were called to the FBI, he said.

Among the evidence was the rifle, recovered from a bush near the building where the shooting took place, and several bullet cartridges wrote about them. One said: “Hello fascist! Catch!” – What Cox said “speak for himself”, while another had the Italian lyrics of a song, “Bella, Ciao” and another said: “If you read this, you are Gay Lmao.”

The authorities do not anticipate any other arrest at this time, Cox said. He said he couldn’t talk about whether the suspect was cooperating with the police.

The suspect was not a student in UVU. He lived and had lived with his family for a long time in St. George, located in the south of Washington County, four hours by Orem car, where the shooting took place, authorities said.

Cox urged young people to build a “culture that is very different from what we are suffering at this time.”

“For my young friends, you are inheriting a country where politics feels like anger. He feels that anger is the only option. But through those words, we have a reminder that we can choose a different path,” Cox said.

Cox said he could not confirm whether the suspect was cooperating with the police.

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.”

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.

The father of the suspect called a youth shepherd who is also an officer of the task force of the US sheriffs. UU. The task force officer advised him to stay in his place and the US sheriffs. Uu. They arrested him and contacted the FBI, according to Fuentes.

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.

The FBI had said that 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.

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.

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.

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.

Cox said that violence is happening throughout the country and said that Kirk’s political murder is “an attack against all of us.”

“I still believe in our country, and I know that Charlie Kirk believed in our country. I still think there is better among us than evil, and I still think we can change the course of history. I have hope because Americans can do so,” Cox said.