The suspected shooter in the killing of pro-Israel right-wing activist Charlie Kirk has been identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson from Utah, after his own father handed him over to authorities.
U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed the arrest during a television interview on Friday, ending a nearly two-day manhunt. According to CNN, Robinson confessed to his father that he shot Kirk during an event at a Utah university on Wednesday. The elder Robinson then notified authorities and stayed with his son until he was taken into custody.
Kirk, a close ally of Trump and a prominent voice in conservative politics, was gunned down in what many of his supporters describe as a politically motivated attack. Outrage has rippled through conservative circles, with some pointing to online celebrations of Kirk’s death as evidence that conservatives are increasingly being targeted.
“They couldn’t beat him in a debate, so they assassinated him,” wrote Isabella Maria DeLuca, a pardoned January 6 rioter and conservative activist, in a post on X.
Republican lawyer and Trump ally Mike Davis also argued that Kirk’s influence among young conservatives posed “an existential threat to the future of leftist ideology and power.”
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