After the suspected shooter has been detained, the FBI held a press conference to report on the case and announce the next steps going forward. Spoiler: we, as leftists, are fucked.
Key points:
- The shooter is Tyler Robinson of Utah.
- His friend reported him to the FBI.
- Tyler's Discord messages have been used as evidence, as provided by his roommate.
- ~~Robinson has been reported to be getting increasingly political, and during dinner one day, he spoke about how Kirk was "full of hate".~~ UPDATE 4: Tyler did not say that.
- The casings do not contain any trans references. But they do have anti-fascist rhetoric (bella ciao and "notices bulges OwO" included) and symbols engraved in them.
- Tyler was taken into custody on September 11th, 10 PM local time.
- The investigation is still ongoing.
- One guy cried while speaking.
- Thousands of more leads of potential accomplices are being followed.
- No other arrests are known
- Tyler drove to campus on a car.
- It's not known if Tyler is mentally ill.
- The charging documents will be filed 3 days from now (September 16), then a preliminary hearing will take place.
(Added by LangleyDominos)
- Patel awkwardly trying to signal the Norse viking larp shit. "Charlie, I'll see you in Valhalla"
- Utah Governor Cox told everyone to log off and stop consuming rage bait, called social media a cancer, and that everyone should "touch grass" (his actual words).
UPDATES
Tyler Robinson's mugshot
Other sources:
BBC
New York Times
CNN
kid's a ~~registered republican~~ and absolutely a groyper lmao but they're definitely gonna try to somehow say this came from the left
EDIT: can't seem to find the source for that first claim, will update if I come across it again
EDIT 2: Apparently he is a fash though lmao https://bsky.app/profile/nerdjpg.com/post/3lynkjgeob22h
The antifascist stuff is more then enough.
yeah they're gonna latch on to that one hard
casings say antifash slogans and an OwO symbol engraved. no way he's a republican if he actually is then i'm gonna chug a monster on camera
He had a Trump Halloween costume in 2017. He donated in 2020. He was pro-Trump at some point. He's 22 so he would be around 17 or 18 in 2020. If he went to college around then I can see him losing his love for Trump by 2024. I know we don't want to cede to chud talking points but college can and does make people change political alignment. Once they get away from their parents and actually have to navigate that stuff on their own, it can change. He could have been going through baby's first radicalization.
Then again I think inscrutable zoomer meme politics is more of the answer than anything. Trump was a meme. If he's been steeped in that culture his whole adolescence it makes sense that he was "pro Trump" for the memes and then changed based on all the other stuff like groyperism or even lib/leftist memes. Clearly he's a kid and has no real political foundation if you from "lol Trump" to "I'm going to shoot Charlie Kirk" in a few years. He just wants to be part of something and do something to become a meme himself.
I thought he was registered as no party
It was literally always going to be blamed on "the radical left". They literally do that with any nazi. Who cares. If the guy is a left they're left, if they're right they're right, either way they're going to crack down on the left, and either way charlie kirk's mute button has been pressed
yep that seems right, I've edited the post
Source on him being a registered republican?
Admittedly I'm trying to dig it up again right now. I just saw it in passing and want to confirm.
well shit
Link is broken for me, anyone got a screen cap?
There it is.