The suspect arrested in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk had an “obsession” with the influential conservative, based on the alleged digital footprint of the shooter, said the co -director of the FBI Dan Bongino on Fox News on Monday.
Tyler Robinson, a 22 -year -old Utah native, is accused of fatally shooting Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University on September 10.
Bongino said the suspect seemed to have exhibited “multiple warning signals.”
Tyler Robinson Mugshot, the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s shooting.
Courtesy of Governor Spencer Cox
“I think the coworkers declared that it had separated when the issue of politics occurred and left,” said Bongino in “America’s Newsroom” of Fox News.
Bongino said they are investigating if someone knew that the shooting could occur and not alert the authorities, referring to the online chats that Robinson supposedly had on Kirk.
“Did they hear him and thought it was a joke? That is what we are trying to discover now,” he told Fox News. “If there is a bigger network here, we will take it out to the public as soon as possible.”
The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, also announced in “Fox AND Friends “that the DNA found in the crime scene, specifically the towel wrapped around the firearm used in the shooting, and in a screwdriver, links Robinson with the murder of the conservative influential.
The officials responsible for enforcing the law have also discovered evidence that Robinson was tracking Kirk events and public appearances through public information on the Internet, they told ABC News, sources of application of the law familiar with the investigation.
The authorities also told ABC News that they have gathered evidence that shows that Robinson had become familiar with the Campus of the Universidad del Valle de Utah, including the observation of campus maps in the days prior to the attack.
Robinson was arrested last week for the discharge of a firearm, aggravated murder and the obstruction of justice, according to probable cause documents, and was admitted to the Utah County prison. He could also face federal charges, the sources said, although it is not clear what it would be.
The UTAH Public Security Department and a source in the state prosecutor’s office said that charges against Robinson will be presented on Tuesday.
The researchers continue to evaluate the evidence, including the observation of electronic devices to which the suspect could have access, since federal charges could be announced in the next few days, they told ABC News to ABC News.
The officials have not revealed a reason, although Vice President JD Vance says that “the extremism of the left” is “part of the reason” Kirk was killed.
Robinson was arrested after his father recognized him in photographs published by the authorities, Cox said Friday. His father told Robinson to be delivered, with the 22 -year -old initially saying no, but then changing his mind, authorities said.
Just before Thursday 10 pm, Robinson, his father and a close friend who previously worked in the Police, who is also a youth volunteer with a local church of Jesus Christ of the last days, led together from Washington, Utah, to the Office of the Sheriff of Washington County in Hurricane, according to the Sergeant. Lance Alfred, spokesman for the Sheriff’s office.
During the trip, the family friend called the personal cell phone of the head of the Office of the Washington County Sheriff’s office to inform that the suspect was about to surrender, Alfred told ABC News.
When Robinson arrived at the Sheriff’s office, he was taken to a marked building “only authorized personnel”, with Sheriff’s office notifying the FBI office of Salt Lake City and other local officials of the law of the arrival of the suspect, said Alfred.
People cries the founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk in a commemorative monument established outside the Turning Point USA headquarters on September 12, 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Charly triballeau/AFP through Getty Images
Robinson remained in the offices of the Sheriff’s office and delivered to the FBI and other forces of the public order upon arrival, which was just before 6 in the morning on Friday.
Cox thanked Robinson’s family last week, saying that “they did the right thing.”
The researchers also interviewed a member of Robinson’s family who said the suspect “had become more political in recent years,” Cox said.
In a recent incident, the family member detailed to the researchers, Robinson came to dinner and in a conversation with another family member who mentioned that Kirk would come to the University of Utah Valley. They talked about why they didn’t like him and his views.
President Donald Trump, who announced Friday at “Fox AND Friends “that the alleged shooter was in custody, said Robinson should receive the death penalty.
“In Utah, you have a death penalty, and a good governor there, I have come to know him,” Trump said about Cox. “The governor intends the death penalty in this case and should be.”
Before the arrest of the alleged shooter, the authorities said they had obtained “good” video images from the individual and that they could track the movements of the suspect.
On the day of the shooting at approximately 11:52 am, the suspect arrived at the OREM campus and then proceeded to travel on the stairs to the roof of the building near where the event was held outdoors, before the suspect shot in Kirk, Utah’s public security commissioner, Beau Mason, he said last week.
Kirk was beaten by a single shot at 12:20 pm and taken to a hospital, where he was declared dead, authorities said.
After the shooting, the suspect traveled to the other side of the building, jumped and fled outside the campus to a neighborhood, Mason said.
On Friday, Erika Kirk, the wife of the conservative commentator, said: “No one will forget my husband’s name.”
“You have no idea of the fire that you have lit inside this wife, the screams of this widow will resonate throughout the world as a battle shout,” said Erika Kirk on Friday in her first public message since her husband’s death.
Pierre Thomas, Luke Barr and Mike Levine of ABC News contributed to this report.
