Charlie Kirk Murder Suspect Turned Themselves In at Local Sheriff’s Office with Parents, Ending Manhunt

Charlie Kirk murder suspect: Charlie Kirk, a well-known political activist, was assassinated last week during a speaking engagement at a Utah university. Following a stressful, more than 30-hour search, he and his parents quietly turned themselves in at the local sheriff’s station.

As soon as word of Kirk’s murder spread throughout the world, the FBI made pictures of the suspect public and asked for assistance in their hunt.

According to court filings, Tyler Robinson’s mother recognized her son in those photos when she saw them on the TV the day after the shooting.

Her son informed her that he was home ill and had been so the day before when she contacted him to find out where he was. He lived close to his parents in an apartment in St. George.

But she was worried. When she showed her husband the pictures, he agreed that the suspect in them resembled her son.

According to the papers submitted to state court on Tuesday, it would initiate a sequence of events whereby his parents and a family friend convinced him to turn himself in to the police the day after the murder. Prosecutors said they will pursue the death sentence against Robinson, 22, who was charged with aggravated murder and other charges related to the September 10 shooting at Utah Valley University.

When Robinson’s parents saw on their screens how much their son resembled the person of interest on September 11, his father also noted that the gun that the police thought was used to murder Kirk seemed to be the same one that Robinson had received as a present. According to the court records, he contacted his son and requested that he email him a picture of the firearm.

Prosecutors claim that Robinson knew his father was attempting to get in touch with him based on texts he sent with his roommate, who would subsequently forward them to the police.

“My dad would want pictures of the firearm. He claims that the federal government published a picture of the firearm, which is quite unusual, and that Grandpa wants to know who has what. According to the charge complaint, Robinson texted his roommate, “He’s calling me right now, not answering.”

According to court filings, Robinson’s father eventually got his son on the phone, and the young man “implied” that he intended to commit himself. He was persuaded to meet at his parents’ house in the St. George neighborhood.

According to the records, inside their house, “Robinson implied that he was the shooter and stated that he couldn’t go to jail and just wanted to end it.”

They questioned their son about his motivation.

According to the court filings, Robinson clarified that “there is too much evil and the guy (Kirk) spreads too much hate.”

They pushed Robinson to speak with a family friend who was once a law enforcement officer and spoke about the possibility of Robinson turning himself in. According to the records, Robinson’s father invited the buddy to meet with his son.

An old buddy called

Nate Brooksby, the sheriff for Washington County, got a call at around 8 p.m. that day. Brooksby subsequently informed reporters at a news conference that it was an old buddy, a retired detective who had been his employee for many years. Robinson’s voice was trembling, and it was the same person Robinson’s parents had contacted to speak with their son.

“Who died, is my first thought?” “St. George is under my jurisdiction,” Brooskby stated. “What really came out of his lips was beyond my comprehension.

“Hey, I know who shot Charlie Kirk,” he added.

Brooksby stated he trusted this buddy with his life, therefore he knew this was real.

The sheriff said that Brooksby’s acquaintance was trying to get Robinson to turn himself in and that he knew Robinson’s family via religious ties.

According to Brooksby, he called Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith, who was in charge of the shooting investigation, as soon as possible following that exchange.

“I have no doubt that Washington County is where the shooter is. Brooksby claimed to have informed Smith, “We’re trying to get him to come in and surrender at my office.”

Brooksby had to repeat himself because Smith was so shocked by the news, he claimed. According to Brooksby, plainclothes officers met Robinson and his parents and a family friend when they arrived at his workplace within an hour.

Robinson was terrified that he would be shot by police or that a SWAT team would storm his home, according to Brooksby, even though he knew it was “inevitable” that he would be apprehended given his image on the television during the fierce pursuit. It took some haggling to get him to come in.

As part of that agreement, Brooksby’s office agreed to make the procedure as “comfortable and relaxed” as possible—”inviting,” he claimed.

According to Brooksby, treating someone who has been charged with a fatal crime with such kindness may seem strange, but “that’s just part of the job.” Additionally, he pointed out that it is more effective than a “hammer-fist” or “storm-trooper” strategy.

He said, “I’m going to make some concessions to make that happen if we are able to get him to surrender peacefully on his own in the end.”

According to Brooksby, it was then a waiting game until the case’s primary detectives showed there. Instead of interrogating Robinson, his office made him feel at ease. Officers provided him water as they waited for the next several hours as he and his parents sat unrestrained on a sofa in a room, according to Brooksby.

Robinson was taken to Utah County, where he would face charges, by about two in the morning.When the frantic search that garnered worldwide attention ended in his office with a “homegrown Washington County boy,” Brooksby claimed he was startled. He remembered going to the same county high school that Robinson eventually attended.

According to his mother, Robinson had previously mentioned Kirk to authorities.

She said that Robinson “had started to lean more to the left” ideologically during the last year, supporting the rights of homosexual people and transgender people. According to his mother, he was seeing his roommate, who was referred to as “a biological male who was transitioning genders” by prosecutors in court filings. Robinson’s mother informed investigators that he discussed this with his father, who had very different political beliefs.

Kirk often aimed to mobilize youth behind conventional gender norms and was a critic of transgender rights. Prior to the shooting, Robinson informed his family members that Kirk propagated hatred, referring to the Utah Valley University event where Kirk was supposed to speak and labeling the location “dumb,” according to court filings.

Prosecutors claim in the criminal papers that Robinson said in a letter left in his house, “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.”

Robinson’s parents felt safe asking for his assistance because of the trust his buddy and former coworker had built in his neighborhood, according to the Washington County sheriff.

According to Brooksby, “they believed that they could approach this person and he could get in touch with me directly, and that we could facilitate a peaceful, calm, relaxed surrender.”