{"id":153398,"date":"2025-09-13T07:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153398\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T07:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:41:07","slug":"suspect-in-charlie-kirk-killing-caught-in-us-widow-vows-to-carry-on-legacy-donald-trump-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153398\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing caught in US, widow vows to carry on legacy | Donald Trump News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The widow of prominent right-wing activist Charlie Kirk has pledged to carry on her husband\u2019s work, after authorities in the United States announced his alleged assassin had finally been captured.<\/p>\n

Investigators had appeared to be making slow progress in the hunt for whoever killed Donald Trump\u2019s close ally, until they released security camera images of a young man on Friday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe got him,\u201d Utah Governor Spencer Cox told a news conference, identifying the suspect as Tyler Robinson<\/a>, 22, who had reportedly been confronted by his father over the pictures and then turned in.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old Kirk was hit by a single bullet<\/a> while addressing a large crowd at Utah Valley University in the town of Orem on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Kirk was a controversial figure on the US right, with a huge young following that helped Trump win the election last November. His hardline views on race, gender, gun ownership and other hot-button issues made him an intensely divisive figure, although even opponents praised his willingness to debate.<\/p>\n

The murder has consumed the US for 48 hours, capturing almost all cable news coverage, while Trump has ordered flags to fly at half-mast. It has also raised questions about the escalating toll of political violence that has spanned the ideological spectrum.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our moment: Do we escalate or do we find an off-ramp?\u201d Cox asked, making an impassioned plea for young people to bridge differences through common ground rather than violence. \u201cIt\u2019s a choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018No idea what they have done\u2019<\/p>\n

In her first public remarks since the shooting, a heartbroken Erika Kirk on Friday mourned the loss of \u201cthe perfect father \u2026 the perfect husband\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe evil-doers responsible for my husband\u2019s assassination have no idea what they have done,\u201d she said in a live video address. \u201cYou have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife. The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe movement my husband built will not die. It won\u2019t. I refuse to let that happen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"ErikaErika Kirk speaks for the first time since her husband\u2019s killing [Screenshot of Turning Point USA livestream]<\/p>\n

She thanked Trump, saying through tears that her husband loved the president, and pledged to keep her husband\u2019s work alive, continuing his campus tour, radio show and podcast.<\/p>\n

Kirk was a conservative provocateur who became a powerful political force by rallying young Republican voters, and was a fixture on college campuses, where he invited sometimes-vehement debate on social issues.<\/p>\n

He co-founded the nonprofit political organisation Turning Point USA, based in Arizona. He had been speaking at a campus debate on the first stop of his \u201cAmerican Comeback Tour\u201d at the time of Wednesday\u2019s shooting.<\/p>\n

He was taking questions from an audience member about gun violence at Utah Valley University when he was killed.<\/p>\n

Who is suspect Tyler Robinson?<\/p>\n

Details about Robinson\u2019s life were just beginning to emerge<\/a> on Friday. Governor Cox said the suspect had lived for a long time with his family in Washington County in the southwest corner of Utah, near the Arizona and Nevada borders.<\/p>\n

The suspect did not appear to have any criminal history, according to state records. He was a registered voter but was not affiliated with a political party, according to voter records.<\/p>\n

At the time of the shooting, he was a third-year student in the electrical apprenticeship program at Dixie Technical College, part of Utah\u2019s public university system. He had previously earned a four-year scholarship to Utah State University in Logan, but left after one semester.<\/p>\n

Authorities, who have yet to reveal a motive, described evidence they said shed potential light on the slaying.<\/p>\n

Ammunition found with the weapon was engraved with taunting, anti-fascist and meme culture messages, including one bullet casing that said, \u201cHey, fascist! Catch!\u201d Cox said.<\/p>\n

In addition, a roommate shared with authorities messages from the chatting app Discord that involved a contact named Tyler and discussed a rifle wrapped in a towel, engraved bullets and a scope, the governor said. A Mauser .30-caliber, bolt-action rifle was found in a towel in a wooded area along the path investigators believe Robinson took after firing a single shot from a distant roof and then fleeing.<\/p>\n

The clothes the suspect wore when confronted by law enforcement late on Thursday matched what he had on when he arrived on campus, and a family member confirmed he drove a grey Dodge Challenger like the one seen in surveillance video that recorded Robinson driving to the university the day of the shooting, Cox said.<\/p>\n

Robinson\u2019s father recognised him from the photos released by the FBI and told him to turn himself in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The widow of prominent right-wing activist Charlie Kirk has pledged to carry on her husband\u2019s work, after authorities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,12,3,111,21,19,22,20,25,1209,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-153398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-politics","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-us-canada","18":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}