Authorities also released new information, including a text messages to his partner and a note which said he had the opportunity to kill one of the nation’s leading conservative voices “and I’m going to take it.”
Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray said Kirk’s murder was “an American tragedy” as he outlined evidence and charges against Robinson.
The texts show he worried about losing his grandfather’s rifle and mentioned several times in the texts that he wished he had picked it up.
A charging document showed a text exchange between Tyler Robinson and his roommate (Photo: Provo District Court via Reuters)
“To be honest I had hoped the keep this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you,” he wrote.
The roommate also asked “why he did it and how long he’d been planning it.”
“Some hate can’t be negotiated out,” the text messages showed. He wrote he had been planning it “a bit over a week”.
Then he wrote: “Going to attempt to retrieve it again, hopefully they have moved on. I haven’t seen anything about them finding it.”
Prosecutor Gray said Robinson had discarded the rifle and clothing and asked his roommate to conceal evidence.
Charlie Kirk was shot dead during an event at a Utah university campus (Photo: by Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)The prosecutor declined to answer whether Robinson targeted Kirk for his anti-transgender views. Kirk was shot while taking a question that touched on mass shootings, gun violence and transgender people.
However he said Robinson is “believed to have targeted Charlie Kirk based on Charlie Kirk’s political expression and did so knowing children were present and would witness the homicide.”
Gray said the partner has been cooperating with investigators.
The weapon was his grandfather’s rifle, which Robinson’s father told investigators was a gift.
Split from family on political views
Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, appears remotely via video during a hearing before Judge Tony Graf (Photo by Scott G Winterton-Pool/Getty Images)
Robinson’s dating choice prompted several conversations with his family, especially between Robinson and his father.
Moments before Kirk was shot, he was taking a question that touched on mass shootings, gun violence and transgender people.
Critics said his views perpetuated racist, anti-immigrant and anti-feminist ideas.
Video released by authorities before Robinson’s arrest showed a running on the roof at Utah Valley University in Orem immediately after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk (Photo: HANDOUT / AFP)
Robinson’s family confronted him about the killing after his mother recognised him when authorities released a photo of the suspect.
The family persuaded him to meet with a family friend who is a retired sheriff’s deputy, who convinced Robinson to turn himself in.
Prosecutors seek death penalty
Robinson was charged with felony discharge of a firearm, punishable by up to life in prison, and obstructing justice, punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
Earlier, Gray said he would file a notice to seek the death penalty and that Robinson would remain jailed without bond.
Gray declined to say whether Robinson’s partner could face charges or whether anyone else might face charges.
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