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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

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[–] abc@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

why would WE be fucked he is very clearly a right wringer lmao

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (8 children)

"notices bulges OwO"

Isn't that an anti-furry Nazi groyper meme?

[–] zipper@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

as much as i'd like it to be i feel like that's a reach. probably just an ironic meme reference, shit's been doing the rounds for almost a decade now.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't know bro, they're not mentioning anything about his politics during the press conference, if he was a leftie they wouldn't hold back, and the anti-furry meme is not leftist coded at all

I think the dude was a gamer gropyer

[–] zipper@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

okay maybe an unpopular opinion but i feel like unless there's any actual confirmation that the guy was a groyper, we should just take the L and admit that the dude was a liberal at the very least. no point grasping at straws, although i sincerely hope that i'll be proven wrong.

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yeah he apparently wrote "Bella ciao" and "hey fascist catch" on the casings. Don't think any right wing adjacent person would do that. Unless it's a purposeful misdirection or trying in incite something.

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[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

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

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

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.

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[–] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

PC Police are on the scene

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[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

We are not too fucked I would say even if the feds successfully tag this guy as leftist an-tee-fah. People don't give a shit about Kirk, the normal reaction™ to his death was "who? Oh he was a trump guy? cool."

Seems like a lot of people already believe the fix is in with the investigation too, and don't care what the FBI says. A surprising amount of non online libs I talked to believed the Crooks assassination attempt on Trump was a total set up, and think this Kirk one is also fake/orchestrated (which I think is hilarious because Kirk is definitely dead af) The point is the USA is truly polarized and the population is disconnected and doesn't trust "the regime" and those seen as connected to it like they used to.

Though this is situation in LibLand, if you live in Chud Territory they're probably taking it worse, but I think most are lazy and will expect the feds to handle it. No idea what that could look like with Trump. Though I'm skeptical how much a crackdown on the American left would affect popular opposition anyway since it's so disorganized. Feel like if anything happens they'll just be throwing a bunch of flimsy charges at Hasan or New York DSA or something stupid like that.

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[–] pppp1000@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/12/suspect-charlie-kirk-shooting

The part with the high school classmate claiming he was "left wing" got removed

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