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September 12, 2025
U.S. and Utah law enforcement officials said Friday that they had arrested a suspect in connection with the fatal shooting of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, ending an intense manhunt after the killing two days ago. The authorities identified him as Tyler Robinson and said that he had made statements to relatives suggesting he had committed the crime.
The suspect was named as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, from Washington, Utah.
Robinson was turned into police overnight by his father and a minister in southern Utah after authorities shared images of the shooter, law enforcement sources told Daily Mail.
“We got him,” Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah told a news conference, saying that Mr. Robinson, 22, had been booked into Utah County jail and was believed to have acted alone. Law enforcement officials said they had physical evidence tying Mr. Robinson to the shooting, including messages he sent on the Discord chat app about needing to “retrieve a rifle from a drop point.
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