The FBI director said the suspect wrote that he had the ‘opportunity to take out’ Kirk and was ‘going to take it.’
DNA evidence matching that of Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer was found at the crime scene, FBI Director Kash Patel said on Sept. 15.
Tyler Robinson, the suspect arrested for the Sept. 10 assassination of the conservative Christian influencer at Utah Valley University, also left a note expressing that he had an opportunity to kill Kirk, Patel said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku04krI7HKAIn a Sept. 15 interview with Fox News, Patel said, “I can report today that the DNA hits from the towel that was wrapped around the firearm and the DNA on the screwdriver are positively processed for the suspect in custody.”
Patel also referred to reports of an alleged note left behind by Robinson, saying that the suspect wrote that he had the “opportunity to take out” Kirk and wrote, “I’m going to take it.” That message was written before the Sept. 10 shooting, he said.
Patel said that it was both a “note” and a “text message exchange,“ adding that it was ”destroyed“ but that investigators recovered it. Other evidence in the case, Patel said, was ”shocking,” although he didn’t go into more detail.
Touching on a possible ideologically based motive, Patel said that Robinson’s family said that he “subscribed to left-wing ideology,” echoing a statement made by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox during several Sept. 14 interviews about the suspect’s viewpoints.
Cox confirmed that Robinson was in a “romantic relationship” with a transgender individual who was also his roommate. That individual is cooperating with federal officials, although Robinson is not, Cox has said.
“Friends have confirmed that there was kind of that deep, dark internet, the Reddit culture, and these other dark places of the internet where this person was going deep,” the governor said.
He added that Robinson’s “roommate was a romantic partner, a male transitioning to female.”
“I can say that [the roommate] has been incredibly cooperative, this partner has been very cooperative, had no idea that this was happening,” Cox said.
