The suspect in the killing of US conservative activist Charlie Kirk was arrested after confessing to his father, who helped turn him in, authorities announced.
Tyler Robinson, 22, was taken into custody at 10pm local time on Thursday following a 33-hour manhunt.
“We got him,” the Utah Governor Spencer Cox told reporters.
“On the evening of 11 September, a family member of Tyler Robinson reached out to a family friend, who contacted the Washington County Sheriff’s Office with information that Robinson had confessed to them or implied that he had committed” the shooting.
The family member is reported to have been his father, according to law enforcement officials speaking to CBS news, who had recognised him from photos released during the manhunt.
Charlie Kirk was a right wing commentator close to President Donald Trump and his Vice President JD Vance. (Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite).During his interview with Fox News earlier, US President Donald Trump appeared to confirm this, saying the suspect was turned in by “someone very close”.
Trump said that the person who recognised the suspect went to “the father” who then “convinced the son”.
The father then called a youth pastor, who then the US Marshals, CNN reports citing law enforcement officials.
Criminal charges are expected to be filed on Tuesday.
Robinson is due to be charged with aggravated murder, obstruction of justice and felony discharge of a firearm, CBS reports.
Utah Governor Spencer Cox shared details of Tyler Robinson’s arrest at a press conference today (Photo: Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)Robinson was a third-year student in an electrical apprenticeship programme at Dixie Technical College in south-west Utah, where he lived, a spokesperson for Utah Valley University (UVU) told the BBC.
He did not attend Utah Valley University, where the shooting took place.
Cox told a press conference today that authorities do not have information that would lead to further arrests but that “the investigation is ongoing”.
Kirk, 31 a right-wing firebrand and close ally of Donald Trump, was speaking to a crowd as part of his political rally tour when he was struck in the neck by a bullet.
The father of two’s murder has prompted an outpouring of grief and outrage from American conservatives and fuelled fears of further political violence.
The shooter fired one shot from the rooftop, according to authorities. Video showed the person then walking through the grass and across the street before disappearing.
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“I can tell you this was a targeted event,” said Robert Bohls, the senior FBI agent in Salt Lake City.
No motive for the killing has been established, investigators said.
But Cox, the Utah governor, said the evidence included engravings on bullet casings recovered from the high-powered rifle believed to have been used in the attack, including one that said: “Hey, fascist! Catch!”
Trump told reporters he planned to attend Kirk’s funeral.
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