Charlie Kirk’s assassin was arrested, said Donald Trump on Friday, September 12, two days after the conservative influencer was killed by bullet. The 31-year-old activist, dressed in a white t-shirt barred with the word “Freedom” (“Liberty”), collapsed on stage, touched in the Gorge, while he was debating on the campus of a university in UTAH.
During an interview on the Fox News channel, the American president said: “I think, with a high degree of certainty, that we have it in detention”stating that “Someone very close to him denounced him”quoting the father of the suspect and a pastor. “I could be wrong, but I tell you what I heard”he added from New York. The young man, 22, and placed in detention in southern Utah would come from this same state. According to the New York Post,, It is called Tyler Robinson.
More than 7,000 reports
The American federal police (FBI), which had released several photos and videos of the suspect, described the assassination as“Targeted act” against Charlie Kirk, now perceived as a “Martyr” by the American right. The images broadcast by the investigators showed a young man wearing a dark long-sleeved t-shirt with an American flag on the torso, jeans, a blue cap and sunglasses. On a video put online by the FBI, it was seen running on a roof after shooting and jumping with address to the ground before crossing a highly frequented street and disappearing in a wooded area, where the investigators then found a 30-06 Mauser hunting rifle.
The police had announced a reward of up to $ 100,000 for any information related to the survey. Until now, more than 7,000 reports had been received by the police. If the individual arrested this Friday turns out to be the murderer of Charlie Kirk, it will sign the end of a man hunt that has been in suspense since Wednesday. On Thursday, the republican governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, promised to demand “The death penalty” against the author of the shot. This morning, Donald Trump said “hoping” that the murderer of Charlie Kirk “Will be sentenced to death”.
