UPDATE 9/12/25 at 9:44 a.m. ET: The Associated Press reported that 22-year-old Tyler Robinson has been recognized as Charlie Kirk's shooter, confirming he's in police custody.
A regulation enforcement official introduced the information on Friday, September 12, however couldn't share additional details about the investigation.
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President Donald Trump revealed Charlie Kirk's shooter has been taken into custody.
“Basically, anyone that was very near him turned him in,” Trump, 79, mentioned throughout a Fox Information look on Friday, September 12, including, “I believe with a excessive diploma of certainty, we now have him in custody.”
In keeping with the president, extra particulars concerning the arrest are anticipated “someday later” on Friday.
“We had excellent footage however not nice, not excellent,” Trump continued. “Someone that was very near him mentioned, ‘Hm, that's him.'”
Turning Level USA founder Kirk was fatally shot on Wednesday, September 10, whereas talking at Utah Valley College in Orem, Utah. He was 31.
“It's with a heavy coronary heart that we, the Turning Level USA management crew, write to inform you that early this afternoon, Charlie went to his everlasting reward with Jesus Christ in Heaven,” Turning Level USA shared in an announcement on Wednesday.
FOX NEWS ALERT: @POTUS says authorities have Charlie Kirk's murderer in custody and that somebody near the suspect helped flip him in. pic.twitter.com/G7wPwc26C9
— FOX & Associates (@foxandfriends) September 12, 2025
Trump additionally spoke out in a social media publish after Kirk's loss of life was confirmed.
“The Nice, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is useless,” he wrote through his Reality Social platform. “Nobody understood or had the Coronary heart of the Youth in the US of America higher than Charlie. He was liked and admired by ALL, particularly me, and now, he's now not with us.”
The FBI launched photographs of the believed individual of curiosity on Thursday, September 11, providing a reward to anybody with info.
“We're asking for the general public's assist figuring out this individual of curiosity in reference to the deadly taking pictures of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley College. 1-800-CALL-FBI,” the FBI wrote through social media.
Charlie Kirk's last phrases included a debate on the subject of gun violence simply seconds earlier than he was fatally shot. Kirk was talking at a campus occasion at Utah Valley College on Wednesday, September 10, as a part of his American Comeback Tour. In keeping with a video shared through CNN, Kirk was debating a pupil about […]
Trump's Friday morning TV look comes hours after Kirk's physique was flown again to Arizona. Vice President JD Vance and members of the Nationwide Guard transported Kirk's physique through Air Power Two on Thursday.
Kirk's spouse, Erika Frantzve, and their two kids had been additionally on the flight. The late conservative political commentator's funeral is anticipated to happen later this month, however additional particulars have but to be revealed.
A number of celebrities have since spoken out within the wake of Kirk's loss of life.
“As a substitute of the offended finger-pointing, can we only for in the future agree that it's horrible and monstrous to shoot one other human?” Jimmy Kimmel, for one, shared through Instagram. “On behalf of my household, we ship like to the kirks and to all the kids, mother and father and innocents who fall sufferer to mindless gun violence.”
