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

  • zipper [any]@hexbear.netOP
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    taking into account the other two casings, dude either specifically wrote down shit like that to make himself seem like a lib or is genuinely a lib. i just didn’t write down what the other casings said.

    • frogbellyratbone_ [e/em/eir, any]@hexbear.net
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      you might be right, but counterargument / i don’t read it like that: the gay thing is an edgy homophobic online joke. the catch this fascist is trolling.

      i’m putting all my money on it that this is a nick fuentes groyper loser.

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          Which means the media will take it as he is a radical leftist who was trying to resurrect Lenin with a blood sacrifice to Baphomet.

          • alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns, any]@hexbear.net
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            If we wanted to resurrect Lenin, I think we’d use a more badass sacrifice than some idiot conservative commentator. Or we’d use someone no one would notice missing. And we wouldn’t perform the sacrifice with a rifle at a public event, we’d set up a proper ritual somewhere. We’ve got a wide range of religious and occult tradition practices among the left, current and former practitioners of both types of ritual practices, surely we have folks who could write a decent ritual for that.

            But then, we wouldn’t use a Western style ritual sacrifice to try to resurrect Lenin. That’s a job for Juche Necromancy, anyone who knows anything about The Left knows that!

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          There were inscriptions on casings found within the rifle, Cox said. The inscription on the fired casing said: “notices, bulges, OWO, what’s this?”

          Three unfired casings also had inscriptions, Cox said.

          One read, “Hey fascists! Catch!” with an up arrow, a right arrow and three down arrows.

          The second said, “Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao.”

          The third, “If you read this, you are gay LMAO.”

          from nbc