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
- ~~UPDATE 1: Tyler apparently donated to TRUMP??? WHAT~~
- UPDATE 2: ignore update 1
- UPDATE 3: new link to donations check (POTENTIALLY MISLEADING!!!)
Tyler Robinson's mugshot
Other sources:
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.