5 hours agoCharlie Kirk’s family comes face to face with accused assassin as prosecutors build case<\/p>\n
PROVO, Utah \u2014 The family of Charlie Kirk came face to face with his accused assassin for the first time in a Utah courtroom<\/a> Monday \u2014 the first day of what is expected to be a weeklong preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n Tyler Robinson, 23, was already in the room before members of the media were allowed in at around 8:55 a.m. He was wearing a gray suit, pink shirt and black tie, with his wrists and ankles cuffed. Later in the hearing, when videos of Kirk’s shooting death were played for the sides and the judge, he showed no visible response when the sound of the fatal gunshot rang out.<\/p>\n Utah State Bureau of Investigation Agent David Hull was on the stand to introduce several videos, including images of Kirk\u2019s death that were not shown publicly in court but were shown to the judge and attorneys for both sides. Two of them were described as showing the moment a sniper\u2019s bullet struck Kirk in the neck, and they included audio that reporters could hear.<\/p>\n While Judge Tony Graf Jr. flinched and leaned away from the screen when the shot rang out in one of the videos, Robinson remained still during both.<\/p>\n