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

  • mudpuppy [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    the shooter has no name, no face, no ideology, no evidence. charlie kirk, in the midst of saying something truly disgusting, was shot in the neck and lots of blood spurted out and he died instantly. that is all that matters. the people saw their own truth in that and no further information could benefit us. the ruling class is going to unprecedented lengths to control people’s thoughts about this because they’re terrified that a revolution is closer than ever. they’re telling us about a suspect to remind us that his life is over, making it about him so it wont be about charlie kirk, making us wonder what he meant by it so we’ll forget what it meant to us. nothing the pigs or the capitalist media say is ever to be trusted, death to every single one of them. charlie kirk was assassinated for being a horrible monster and working to destroy the world. that’s the end of the story.