Freshly leaked messages between Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old guy accused of gunning down Charlie Kirk, and his buddies right after the brazen killing have just hit the wires. It’s the kind of stuff that makes your stomach turn.
You remember how last week the whole world was glued to the news about Kirk’s murder? The 31-year-old firebrand conservative voice, always stirring the pot, was fielding questions at Utah Valley University on September 10 when bam—a sniper’s bullet caught him in the neck from some rooftop perch.
The crowd of about 3,000 lost it, pure chaos as Kirk toppled from his chair. The big-name right-wing agitator didn’t make it; docs called time of death 90 minutes later in the ER.
Cops launched this massive, all-hands-on-deck hunt, but the shooter slipped the net well into day two. They traced his rooftop getaway and dash along a parking lot fringe, ditching the rifle in some brush nearby. Soon, sketches and pics of this college-kid-looking suspect were everywhere, plus a cool $100,000 bounty for tips that’d nail him.
FBI boss Kash Patel dropped this weird line about it being the fallout from “letting good cops be cops,” but truth be told, it wasn’t the badges who reeled him in.
No, it was the kid’s own dad who talked sense into him—knowing full well the needle might swing toward a death sentence if he didn’t come clean.
Turns out, that suspect’s Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old local from Utah.
At Friday’s presser, where Utah Governor Spencer Cox broke the news of the collar, he spilled on some texts Robinson fired off to his roommate. Stuff about snagging a rifle from a “drop point,” plus bits on a scope and this one-of-a-kind gun.
“Investigators sat down with that roommate, who mentioned his roomie cracked a joke on Discord,” Cox laid out.
The roommate pulled up a bunch of chats and even let the team snap pics of his screen. Those shots showed exchanges tied to “Tyler,” yapping about grabbing the rifle from the drop, stashing it in a bush, keeping eyes on the spot, and one bit about wrapping the thing in a towel before ditching it.
Discord piped up quick to set the record straight: Those particular messages? Actually from the roommate, riffing on a note Robinson supposedly scribbled somewhere else.
But now, even juicier Discord logs have bubbled up, painting a picture of Robinson yukking it up with his crew about his “look-alike” pulling the trigger on Kirk—right after the FBI flashed the suspect’s mug.
One buddy looped in the 22-year-old with the FBI shots, typing “wya” (you know, “where you at?”) and slapping on a skull emoji for flair.
“Whatever you do, don’t go to a McDonald’s anytime soon,” cracked another, nodding to Luigi Mangione—that 27-year-old tied to the UnitedHealthcare CEO whacking, Brian Thompson.
Robinson fired off that he “better also get rid of this manifesto and exact copy rifle I have lying around,” then doubled down saying the shooter was “CLEARLY” some Cali transplant.
The kid even took a swing at those “trans” etchings on the shells, calling it all a plant by “some dude in the briefing room.”
Right now, Robinson’s locked up sans bail, facing aggravated murder raps, plus felony firearms discharge with major injury, and tossing in obstruction of justice for good measure.
Governor Cox, chatting on NBC’s Meet The Press Sunday, dropped that Robinson was shacked up romantically with his roommate—who’s transitioning from guy to gal.
“The roommate was a romantic partner,” Cox put it plain. “We can confirm that that roommate is a boyfriend who is transitioning from male to female.”
He tacked on that Robinson’s clamming up tight, not giving the feds an inch.