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

  • Clippy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    18 hours ago

    god damn amerikkka

    The Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, just said, “For the last 33 hours, I had been praying that this person (who murdered Charlie Kirk) was from another country. That he was not one of us because we are not like that. But it was one of us.”

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      17 hours ago

      And he’s about to cry while he’s saying it too lol

      Also I don’t think that’s the quote? I think the quote is, “For 33 hours I was praying that if this had to happen here, that it wouldn’t be one of us. That somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country…Sadly that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for. Just because I thought it would make it easier on us if we could just say, ‘hey, we don’t do that here.’”

      I mean your quote was pretty much it I just thought I’d give the full quote