{"id":612002,"date":"2026-09-02T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612002\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T07:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:16:09","slug":"us-judge-rules-alleged-charlie-kirk-killer-to-stand-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612002\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge rules alleged Charlie Kirk killer to stand trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

A US judge has ruled that the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk will face trial for murder, finding that prosecutors have sufficient evidence to proceed.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old defendant Tyler James Robinson faces the death penalty in the state of Utah for allegedly killing Mr Kirk, who was shot in the neck during a rally on a college campus on 10 September last year.<\/p>\n

“For the foregoing reasons and based off the record and parties’ submissions, it is hereby ordered that the defendant, Tyler James Robinson, is bound over for trial,” Judge Tony Graf said in court.<\/p>\n

\"MILWAUKEE,
\nCharlie Kirk was shot dead at an event at a Utah university last year<\/p>\n

The decision follows a preliminary hearing during which both sides presented arguments about whether such a trial should proceed.<\/p>\n

The prosecution presented Mr Robinson’s video gamer chats and text messages that they said proved the suspect killed Mr Kirk, because he was “fed up” with the “hate” spread by the influencer.<\/p>\n

The defence, for its part, focused primarily on casting doubt on the validity of DNA evidence linking the defendant to the murder weapon.<\/p>\n

\"Judge
\nUtah District Court Judge Tony Graf ruled that Tyler Robinson should face trial on all seven charges against him<\/p>\n

Following the judge’s decision, Mr Robinson pleaded not guilty to the charges against him, according to US media.<\/p>\n

The event at which Mr Kirk was killed at age 31 was planned by his right-wing youth organisation, Turning Point, which campaigned for President Donald Trump in 2024.<\/p>\n

The group is now led by his wife, Erika Kirk.<\/p>\n

“Today’s decision, which comes nearly a year since Charlie was taken from us, marks an important step in our family’s pursuit of justice for him,” Erika Kirk said in a statement posted on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A US judge has ruled that the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk will face trial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-612002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}