The students of the University of Utah Valley return to the campus a week after Charlie Kirk Tir
The students of the University of Utah Valley return to the Campus on Wednesday, a week after the influential conservative Charlie Kirk was killed while celebrating an outdoor event at the university.
Hope Ledkins, a first -year student at the University of Utah Valley, told ABC News to return to class is a “very sad and very gloomy feeling.”
“This does not happen in OEM, Utah,” Ledkins said. “To make something like this happen, people feel really mixed about it.”
People look at the site where Charlie Kirk shot, above which an American flag hangs at the University of Utah Valley, on September 15, 2025, in OREM, Utah.
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As students return to the Campus, the police continue to investigate Tyler Robinson, 22, accused of killing Kirk at the University on September 10.
Robinson was formally accused of aggravated murder on Tuesday, and prosecutors announced the intention of looking for the death penalty. He was also accused of discharge of a firearm that caused serious bodily injuries, obstruction of justice, two positions of witness manipulation and commission of a violent crime in the presence of a child, announced Utah County prosecutor Jeff Gray.
Robinson made a brief appearance in the first court on Tuesday.
The alleged Charlie Kirk shooter, Tyler Robinson, makes his first appearance in the Court in Utah.
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The prosecutors offered more information about the murder and the alleged discussions of Robinson with the family and his fourth partner following the shooting.
After his father recognized Robinson in photographs published by the authorities, the suspect met with his parents and “implied that he was the shooter and declared that he could not go to jail and just wanted to finish it,” the loading documents said.
His parents then asked his son why he committed this crime, to whom he said: “There is too bad and the guy. [Charlie Kirk] It extends too much hate, “according to loading documents.
Exactly what Robinson supposedly referred to “hate” was not clear. The researchers noticed that Robinson’s mother told them that her son supposedly began to have a relationship with her roommate, who is making the transition, and had begun to bow to the left more politically, becoming “more oriented to rights rights”, but the document does not indicate the relevance of those rooms or if Kirk’s comments on those problems were a motivating factor.
Gray said he would let a judge determine whether the statements allegedly made by Robinson constituted a confession. On Tuesday, he refused to comment if Robinson has been cooperating or spoken to researchers.
Prosecutors also revealed text messages between the suspect and his roommate.
Utah’s lawyer, Jeff Gray, describes the formal charges against Tyler Robinson in the death of Charlie Kirk, on September 16, 2025.
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The day of the shooting, the fourth partner received a text message from the 22 -year -old who said: “Leave what you are doing, look under my keyboard,” according to the loading documents.
The roommate found a note under Robinson’s keyboard that said: “I had the opportunity to get Charlie Kirk and I will take it,” according to the loading documents.
The workers replace the grass in the courtyard of the University of Valle de Utah, where political activist Charlie Kirk was shot, on September 15, 2025 in OEM, Utah.
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Prosecutors also revealed additional conversations between the suspect and his room partner after the shooting.
“He had enough of his hatred. You can’t negotiate any hatred,” reads one of the messages.
Robinson’s fellow asked how long he had been planning this attack, to what he said “a little more than a week, I think,” according to loading documents.
People walk through the site where conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot dead at the University of Utah Valley last week, on September 17, 2025, in OEM, Utah.
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As the suspect remains in custody without bail, the director of the FBI, Kash Patel, said that a “number of individuals” is currently being investigated that are linked to the discord of the suspect, a Messenger Platform of Group Chat where Robinson supposedly confessed that it was the shooter two hours before they stopped it.
“Hello guys, I have bad news for everyone … I went in Uvu yesterday. I’m sorry for all this,” reads one of the messages.
During a hearing of the Senate Judicial Committee on Tuesday, Patel said that “much more” than 20 people are linked to Robinson and that the FBI is investigating “anyone and all those involved in the Discord chat.”
Robinson’s next audience is scheduled for September 29.
Jaclyn Lee of ABC News contributed to this report.
