Who is Tyler Robinson? What we know about Charlie Kirk's suspected assassin
Gun Violence,Assassination Of Charlie Kirk
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Tyler Robinson, 22, has been identified as the suspect in Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk's assassination on a Utah college campus.
"We got him on the evening of Sept. 11," Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced in a Friday morning news briefing.
"A family member of Tyler Robinson reached out to a family friend who contacted the Washington County Sheriff's Office with information that Robinson had confessed to them or implied that he had committed the incident."
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