Assessment on Charlie Kirk
What is known about the alleged perpetrator
For more than 24 hours, Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin was searched for, then there was a arrest. We know that about the perpetrator.
After the fatal attack on the right US activist Charlie Kirk, the suspect is caught. He was arrested late Thursday evening (local time), said the Republican governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, at a press conference. “We have him.” The suspect is therefore called Tyler R. that he is 22 years old according to matching US media reports.
Previously, US President Donald Trump had already said on Fox News in the broadcaster that there was a arrest.
The influential podcaster and Trump supporter Kirk, 31, was shot on Wednesday during a speech on the campus of a university in the state of Utah. He later died in the hospital. The governor assumes a “political assassination attempt”.
How did the arrest came about?
According to Governor Cox, a family member of the suspect turned to a family of the family on Thursday. This in turn passed on the information to the office of a sheriff that the suspect had stood or indicated that he had committed the crime.
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Before his speech at Utah Valley University, Charlie Kirk still distributed Maga caps to his audience. A little later a shot killed him
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In this way, investigators had identified the suspect on video material from surveillance cameras. The recordings therefore show how the suspect arrives on the university campus on the morning of the day.
What do you know about the suspect Tyler R.?
The information comes from investigators and the state, unless otherwise identified:
- Oldest of three brothers
- He lived with his family in the city of St. George, Washington County, a southern part of Utah
- According to the US media, he is not a criminal record and has attended a secondary school
- He was not an university student where the crime occurred
- According to the State University of Utah, he had studied there for a semester during the Corona Pandemy
- According to a family member, he is said to have become more political in recent years
- He is said to have recently mentioned Kirk’s planned appearance at the university at a dinner with another family member
- You are said to have exchanged why you didn’t like Kirk
- Various words were read on weapons accessories that were found near the crime scene, including “Hey Fascist, Fang” and “Bella Ciao”-an allusion to an old partisan song that sang Italian fighter during the Second World War in the fight against Nazi Germany
But a lot is also unclear:
- Has the suspect said and what does he say about the allegations?
- Does the status of a suspect and a single act stay?
- What exactly is the motif?
- Did the suspected connection to Kirk?
- Where did he get the ability to shoot and hit this distance?
Most recently, the Federal Police FBI had intensively searched for the shooter. The authority published a video sequence and other photos. A possible murder weapon was discovered in a forest. According to reports, the shooter could have shot from one roof on Kirk.
The shot hit the right-wing conservative US podcaster Charlie Kirk on Wednesday when he spoke as a guest speaker on the University of Utah Valley. He was a well-known representative of the right-wing conservative movement in the United States and was considered a Trump ally. Millions of people followed his social media channels and podcasts.
The US President made Kirk’s death known on Truth Social. Numerous ministers of his government then expressed their grief and condolences.
Kirk’s widow expresses himself publicly
The coffin with Kirk’s body was convicted by Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance from Utah to Arizona, where the podcaster is said to have lived. TV images showed how Kirk’s widow Erika rose from an airplane supported by Usha Vance.
On Friday, Erika Kirk expressed himself publicly after the crime and announced that she wanted to continue her husband’s work. “The movement that my husband has built up will not die,” she said in a speech transferred live on the Internet. “I refuse to allow it.”
Kirk was a “perfect father and perfect husband”. “The malefactors who are responsible for my husband’s murder have no idea what they did,” she added. “You have no idea what fire you have sparked in this woman. The crying of this widow will resound all over the world like a battle cry.”
Note: This post has been updated several times.
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