Tyler Robinson, 22, was arrested on Thursday night after relatives and a family friend alerted authorities that he had implicated himself in the crime, Governor Spencer Cox said on Friday, telling a press conference, “We got him.” The arrest capped a 33-hour manhunt for the lone suspect in Wednesday’s killing, which President Donald Trump has called a “heinous assassination.”
A break in the case came when a relative and a family friend told the local sheriff’s office he had “confessed to them or implied that he had committed” the murder, Cox said.
Police collected additional evidence on Friday evening from Robinson's apartment in St. George, about 5 miles (8 km) from his parents' home near the Arizona border.
Robinson was held on suspicion of aggravated murder and other charges that were expected to be formally filed in court early next week, the governor said.
'Watershed in American history'
Cox called Kirk's murder a “watershed in American history” and compared it to the rash of U.S. political assassinations of the 1960s. He declined to discuss possible motives for the killing. Investigators found messages engraved into four bullet casings, which included references to memes and video game in-jokes. One casing, according to the arrest affidavit, had been inscribed: “If you read This, you are GAY Lmao”.
State records show Robinson was a registered voter but not affiliated with any political party. A relative told investigators that Robinson had grown more political in recent years and had once discussed with another family member their dislike for Kirk and his viewpoints, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
An expert on democracy and security said it was hard to read too much into the messages left on the shell casings recovered by authorities. One of the inscriptions read: “hey fascist! CATCH!” followed by a combination of directional arrows, an apparent reference to a sequence of button presses that unleashes a bomb in a popular video game.
Kleinfeld said most perpetrators of political violence were not clearly on one ideological side or another, but typically driven by “a hodgepodge of conspiracy beliefs and mental illness.” Speaking to NBC News on Saturday, Trump did not hold back from blaming his political opponents. “I’d like to see it (the nation) heal,“ NBC quoted Trump as saying in a brief telephone interview. “But we’re dealing with a radical left group of lunatics, and they don’t play fair and they never did.”
Trump himself has survived two attempts on his life, one that left him with a grazed ear during a campaign event in July 2024 and another two months later foiled by federal agents.
Democrats have fallen victim, too. In April, an arsonist broke into Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's residence and set it on fire while the family was inside. In June, a gunman posing as a police officer in Minnesota murdered Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and shot Democratic state Senator John Hoffman and his wife - REUTERS
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