Suspect in Charlie Kirk Assassination Arrested: 22-Year-Old Tyler Robinson of Utah Taken Into Custody
On the morning of September 12, 2025, Utah Governor Spencer Cox and FBI Director Kash Patel announced at a press conference at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah County, Utah, that Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah man suspected of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk, had been taken into custody the previous night, about 33 hours after the shooting.
"We got him," Cox began. He said that on the evening of September 11, a family member of Robinson reached out through a family friend to the Washington County Sheriff's Office with information that Robinson had confessed to them, or implied that he had committed the shooting. The information was relayed to the Utah County Sheriff's Office, to Utah Valley University investigators and to the FBI.
Surveillance footage reviewed by investigators showed Robinson arriving on the Utah Valley University campus at 8:29 a.m. on September 10 in a gray Dodge Challenger. At about 10 p.m. on September 11, he was taken into custody in Washington County, Utah, and was booked into the Utah County Jail. According to the jail booking record, he was arrested on suspicion of aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm and obstruction of justice; prosecutors were expected to file formal charges the following Tuesday.
Patel recounted the manhunt timeline: Kirk was shot at 12:23 p.m. on September 10, and the first FBI agents arrived on scene 16 minutes later. At 10 a.m. on September 11, the FBI released the first photos of the suspect, followed by a $100,000 reward, and that evening released video of the suspect fleeing across a rooftop. The suspect was taken into custody at 10 p.m. that night, 33 hours after the shooting, Patel said.
Cox thanked Robinson's family for doing "the right thing" in turning him over to law enforcement, and said investigators believed he had acted alone. He urged calm and said the case would proceed according to law. Investigators had earlier recovered a high-powered bolt-action rifle wrapped in a towel in a wooded area near campus; forensic examination was continuing, and the investigation remained ongoing.
(Source: Office of the Governor of Utah)
Source: Office of the Governor of Utah
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Photo: 图：犹他州第四司法区法院大楼（Provo，资料图），柯克案的刑事程序在此推进。Farragutful 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。/ Photo: The Fourth Judicial District Courthouse in Provo, Utah (file photo), where the criminal proceedings in the Kirk case are being heard. Photo by Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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