After the suspected shooter has been detained, the FBI held a press conference to report on the case and announce the next steps going forward. Spoiler: we, as leftists, are fucked.

Key points:

  • The shooter is Tyler Robinson of Utah.
  • His friend reported him to the FBI.
  • Tyler’s Discord messages have been used as evidence, as provided by his roommate.
  • Robinson has been reported to be getting increasingly political, and during dinner one day, he spoke about how Kirk was “full of hate”. UPDATE 4: Tyler did not say that.
  • The casings do not contain any trans references. But they do have anti-fascist rhetoric (bella ciao and “notices bulges OwO” included) and symbols engraved in them.
  • Tyler was taken into custody on September 11th, 10 PM local time.
  • The investigation is still ongoing.
  • One guy cried while speaking.
  • Thousands of more leads of potential accomplices are being followed.
  • No other arrests are known
  • Tyler drove to campus on a car.
  • It’s not known if Tyler is mentally ill.
  • The charging documents will be filed 3 days from now (September 16), then a preliminary hearing will take place.

(Added by LangleyDominos)

  • Patel awkwardly trying to signal the Norse viking larp shit. “Charlie, I’ll see you in Valhalla”
  • Utah Governor Cox told everyone to log off and stop consuming rage bait, called social media a cancer, and that everyone should “touch grass” (his actual words).

UPDATES

Tyler Robinson’s mugshot

Other sources:

BBC

New York Times

CNN

  • segfault11 [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 day ago

    leftists are saying he’s a chud and chuds are saying he’s a leftist, but honestly the elephant in the room nobody is talking about is whiteboy on whiteboy violence 👆

    • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      12 hours ago

      I was saying today that this dude is a full lib. He’s a lib who sees what’s happening and doesn’t understand why. He knows we should hate fascists and fascism, and probably knows the “last time” fascism was around people did the “right thing” and fought the fascist state, yet no one is doing that. He knows the broad strokes of history but not the material forces of history. “We fought the fascist in WW2! Why isn’t anyone fighting them now!?” He diverged from his conservative upbringing but it provided him a particular set of skills. He had no plan for after the deed, he had no group he was linking up with, just a lib backed into a corner with no support to pull them into actual organizing.

      Nevermind, he’s a Groyper!