Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old from Utah, was charged with seven counts on Tuesday afternoon for allegedly shooting right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University last Wednesday.
Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray held a press conference, during which he read aloud from the charging documents. Those documents are available here, and include an alleged text exchange in which Robinson confessed to his roommate that he had killed Kirk, and discussed his attempts to retrieve his weapon later that day.
Robinson had his first court appearance virtually from the jail Tuesday evening, during which the judge said he’ll be assigned a lawyer. He is being held without bail.
Have we heard anything from Robinson’s attorney? Do we even have a clue who it might be?
The worst part of Kirk being killed is that I am now forced to see his stupid, vacuous cartoon balloon face every fucking time I go online. I used to be able to avoid the fascist douche, but not anymore.
The aggravated murder charge is unlikely to stick. None of the statutory predicates for it are a good fit.
https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title76/Chapter5/76-5-S202.html
This is the first time a high profile social media influencer has been murdered. Who knows what that means to crime and punishment.
Truthfully it shouldn’t make a difference but ICE raided a plant in Georgia creating an international incident on the word of a MAGA social media Karen without seeking any approval upstream so who the hell knows.
And of course the DA had to insinuate that the reason Robinson killed Kirk was because he had a transgender roommate who somehow brainwashed him into killing Kirk.