US EditionKirk suspect said ‘I had enough of his hatred’ in texts with roommate
- Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist, was fatally shot on Wednesday while speaking onstage at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
- Tyler Robinson, 22, was identified as the suspect who admitted in text messages to his roommate that he shot Kirk because he had "enough of his hatred."
- Prosecutors allege Robinson fired a bolt-action rifle from a rooftop, targeting Kirk's neck as Kirk answered a question about transgender shooters.
- Robinson sent a text instructing, "Stop what you're doing and check beneath my keyboard," where his roommate found a note stating that he had a chance to target Charlie Kirk and intended to do so. When asked, Robinson confirmed, "I am, I am."
- Robinson faces seven charges including aggravated murder, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty while investigators continue examining motives and the shooting's political impact.
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"Drop what you're doing and look under my keyboard." That's what Tyler Robinson wrote in a message to his roommate, shortly after right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was shot in the throat at a debate.
Tyler Robinson, who is suspected of shooting and killing conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, was anxious for his partner and for being forced to give up his gun in the hours after the murder, according to text messages. "I had had enough of his hatred," Robinson writes of Kirk.
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