Orem, UTAH — Police have arrested a suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk on a Utah college campus earlier this week. Sources identified the suspect as Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah resident.
“I think with a high-degree of certainty, we have him,” President Donald Trump revealed on Fox & Friends Friday morning. He added that, “essentially, someone who knew him turned him in.”
Reports indicate that a pastor, affiliated with law enforcement, urged the suspect’s father to turn his son in.
The Daily Mail reported that the suspect’s father, who is a 27-year veteran of the Washington County Sheriff’s Department, contacted authorities and secured his son before he could be taken into custody.
Robinson was reportedly a student at Utah State University on a scholarship,
Robinson was taken into custody around 11 pm in southern Utah on Thursday night. He lives in Washington, Utah, about 260 miles south of Kirk’s assassination in Orem.
Kirk was sitting under a tent around 12:20 p.m. Wednesday, debating with students when a single shot struck him in the neck.
He had been invited to speak at Utah Valley University by the campus chapter of Turning Point USA, a national conservative student group he founded.
