Suspect Tyler Robinson Set to Appear in Court Tuesday Over Charlie Kirk's Fatal Shooting

[00:01] Just stand for what you believe. I think

[00:03] that's the main point that Charlie

[00:05] wanted to get across and I'm going to

[00:08] try my best to do that. Well, last

[00:10] night, hundreds of people gathered at

[00:11] Utah State University honoring Charlie

[00:13] Kirk. The conservative activist was

[00:15] planning to speak at USU in less than 3

[00:18] weeks. But instead of Charie speaking,

[00:21] they are speaking about him after he was

[00:23] shot and killed at Utah Valley

[00:25] University. Well, as people mourn and

[00:27] process this news, a suspect still

[00:29] remains in jail.

[00:30] >> Authorities are revealing some more

[00:32] details about the alleged assassin and

[00:34] his arrest. News specialist Daniel

[00:35] Woodruff joining us now live from ORM at

[00:38] Utah Valley University with the very

[00:40] latest. Daniel,

[00:42] >> well, the suspect who is in jail is set

[00:45] to appear in court in just a couple of

[00:46] days. Charlie Kirk was speaking here at

[00:49] Utah Valley University on Wednesday

[00:51] afternoon when he was shot and killed.

[00:54] The manhunt for the gunman lasted

[00:56] several days involving local, state, and

[00:58] federal authorities. And then two days

[01:00] later, a suspect was arrested. We know

[01:02] now that suspect is 22-year-old Tyler

[01:05] Robinson. We also know that he turned

[01:07] himself into law enforcement in

[01:09] Washington, Utah, in the southern part

[01:12] of the state. The main key to his

[01:14] arrest, according to investigators, was

[01:16] Robinson's own family. They'd been

[01:18] speaking with him, realized he was

[01:19] involved, and that they needed to get

[01:21] law enforcement in the picture. and they

[01:23] convinced Robinson to turn himself in.

[01:26] The state's public safety commissioner

[01:28] told KSL he doesn't know the details of

[01:30] what was said between Robinson and his

[01:32] family, but in the end, he says it was

[01:34] the family doing the right thing that

[01:37] made the big difference.

[01:39] >> Absolutely. Um, like I say, the family

[01:41] was vital to this. Um, that can't be an

[01:43] easy thing to to to work to turn a

[01:46] family member in, whether that's a a son

[01:48] or brother or whatever that is. Um, but

[01:50] it was so important. It was so great to

[01:53] see that happen so that we could get

[01:56] this over, we could get the arrest made,

[01:59] and that nobody was injured in the

[02:01] process in taking him into custody.

[02:05] According to a police affidavit, family

[02:07] members told investigators that Robinson

[02:09] had recently become more political and

[02:12] had mentioned Kirk's upcoming visit to

[02:14] Utah Valley and why he didn't like him

[02:15] or his viewpoints. bullet casings

[02:18] recovered from the murder weapon we know

[02:19] were now engraved with anti-fascist

[02:22] messages and references to internet

[02:24] memes. Now, Robinson was a third-year

[02:27] student in the electrical apprenticeship

[02:28] program at Dixie Technical College down

[02:31] in St. George. He also had attended Utah

[02:34] State University for one semester,

[02:36] receiving a presidential scholarship.

[02:38] Court records show no criminal history

[02:41] on Robinson's part. Voting records show

[02:43] he was not affiliated with any political

[02:45] party and did not vote in the last

[02:48] general election. Now Robinson is due

[02:50] now to make his first appearance in

[02:53] court on Tuesday. And here on campus at

[02:56] Utah Valley University, there is a

[02:57] memorial for Charlie Kirk and it is

[02:59] growing. In fact, just the little bit of

[03:01] time we've been here today, we have seen

[03:03] people stopping by to bring flowers and

[03:06] pay their respects. It is truly a very

[03:08] somber setting here and a very quiet one

[03:10] behind me where people are at this

[03:12] memorial pondering what has happened.

[03:15] Classes at UVU have been cancelled since

[03:18] the shooting on Wednesday. They will

[03:20] resume again next Wednesday, a week from

[03:22] what took place a couple of days ago and

[03:26] faculty are scheduled to come back here

[03:28] to Utah Valley University on Monday in

[03:31] anticipation of that. Reporting live in

[03:33] ORM at UVU, Daniel Woodruff, KSL5 News.

[03:36] Yeah, a lot of people are going to still

[03:38] need some time to heal here.