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

  • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    I thought people were cooking abit too hard on it myself, but the ‘you’re gay’ and ‘OwO’ inscriptions are what convinced me that it was a groyper.

    Irony poisoned leftists don’t call other people gay, they call themselves gay, and the OwO is pretty much only used around here and 4chan (as many of us are 4chan expats), and I doubt a leftist would attempt to implicate furries into whatever stupid shit they are doing. I am literally friends with furries and it comes up maybe once a year, at most, and certainly isn’t the most memorable meme that exists within the community. It’s a right-wing obsession that tracks into all of their discourse.

    Everything else was just chaff as far as I was concerned, but now that context has been provided, that 100% tracks.

    That said, dust won’t settle until the discord logs are actually released.