President Trump said the arrest was made after authorities received a tip off from a minister who recognized the suspect from his photos.

Kirk’s shooter, Tyler Robinson, has apparently turned himself in, apparently after confessing to his own father (?)

I’ve tried to capture the relevant bits of this extremely rapidly updating and currently in progress series of events.

9 a.m. EDT

While appearing on Fox and Friends, Trump said “I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him in custody.”

Trump said authorities acted after receiving a tip from a minister who recognized the suspect from the images released by law enforcement.

The president said he believed the suspect’s father was also involved in arrest, but added that this information was still preliminary and the details could change.

9:15 a.m. EDT

Trump said he would attend a funeral next week for Kirk, “who should not be having a funeral right now,” when asked about his scheduled trip to the U.K. from Sept. 16-18.

9:30 a.m. EDT

The suspect was identified as Tyler Robinson, 22, from Utah, according to multiple reports citing people with knowledge of the investigation.

10:10 a.m. EDT

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox confirmed in a press conference Friday morning that a suspect named Tyler Robinson has been detained.

Apologies for this being a paywalled Forbes article.

  • memfreeEnglish
    11•1 day ago

    From Al Jazeera:

    Governor Cox told a news conference on Friday: “On the evening of September 11, a family member of Tyler Robinson contacted a family friend, who then informed the Washington County Sheriff’s Office that Robinson had either confessed to or implied that he had committed the incident.

    “This information was relayed to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office and investigators at Utah Valley University and conveyed to the FBI.”

    and

    Governor Cox said cryptic messages were engraved on shell casings recovered with the rifle, which he read out phonetically. Their meaning is not immediately clear.

    One spent shell case read: “Notices, bulges OWO what’s this?”

    Cox said three unfired shell cases read: “Hey fascist! Catch! Up arrow symbol, right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols”, “Oh Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Ciao, Ciao, Ciao” and “If you read this, you are gay, LMAO”.

    So he’s online a lot. There’s the wikipedia article on the history of Bella Ciao.

    • @t3rmit3@beehaw.org
      7•24 hours ago

      So the LEOs trying to make it sound like the 3 down arrows were Iron Front were lying sacks of shit, no surprise there. Up Right Down Down Down is from Helldivers 2, for calling in a bomb airstrike.

      • Feydaikin
        3•22 hours ago

        The 500k bomb, notorious team-killer.

        Edit: Crap, video games and rock music are gonna get blamed again, aren’t they…?