The man arrested for the crime of the right -right activist Charlie Kirk He would have confessed to his father his authorship in the fact. This information transcended this Friday, after the president Donald Trump reported that the suspect was in custody.
The governor of Utah, Spencer Coxstate in which the crime was committed against Kirk, confirmed this Friday at a conference that they have the person responsible, corresponding to Tyler Robinson, A 22 -year -old from that area.
This information was approached by CNN as the detainee’s father informed the authorities. Earlier, media like The Guardian and the agency AP They approached the identity of the detainee.
Charlie Kirk’s crime: the detainee would have confessed to his father the shooting
The former sub -director of FBI Chris Swecker, of the Division of Criminal Investigations, He said they will build an accusation against the suspect. “Officials will have to resist the temptation to disseminate too much information to protect the trial and memory of witnesses,” Sweecker said.
Meanwhile, he added, “Forensic evidence with him will coincide. They are now building towards an accusation and a trial,” said CNN. Sweecker said they will obtain an arrest warrant and then a formal accusation, which would probably be a state murder position.
“Now there is all an investigation that will focus not on the part of the suspect’s persecution, but on the construction of the accusation, matching all the evidence with him and tracking all that backwards and then, of course, they will be at home executing a registration order,” he added.
Charlie Kirk’s crime: Donald Trump said the suspect “is in custody”
After knowing the first images of the main suspect for the crime of activist Charlie Kirkthe president of USA Donald Trump He said Friday that this man was arrested and is “in custody.” In addition, he said he hopes “receiving the death penalty.”
“I think, with a high degree of certainty, that we have it in custody,” Trump said during an appearance in the Fox News chain and also added that someone “very close to him delivered it.”
The president said that the link to find him refers to a shepherd and the father of the suspect: “He was a pastor, and the pastor went to a friend – a pastor who, by the way, is involved in the forces of the order, and whose good friend is a high Sheriff of the United States.”
In that line, he added that “they took care of the matter and then it was the father (of the suspect) who got involved”; He did not clarify whether the father was aware of the alleged crime of his son.
“We have the person we believe we are looking for(…) They led to the police headquarters and he is there. ”But he warned that the news was” subject to changes. “
In addition, he expressed himself about the destiny of this suspect if he is guilty: “Well, it will be convicted, I imagine, and I hope you receive the death penalty,” he said and added that “Kirk was the best person, he didn’t deserve this.”
Source: Ambito
