Charlie Kirk: What is known about the suspect Tyler R.

The US activist who was killed in the killed right-wing US activist Charlie Kirk Detended Tyler R. refuses to work with the authorities. The investigators now tried to determine a motive for the crime through talks with friends and family, said the governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, on Sunday. The 22-year-old suspected shooter will be formally charged on Tuesday. He remains in custody in Utah.

R. did not confess, said Cox the broadcaster ABC. “He does not cooperate, but cooperate in his environment, and I think that’s very important,” said the Republican governor.

A person who speaks to the investigators is the roommate RS, who is a trans woman. When asked whether the roommate’s gender identity was relevant for the investigation, Cox said, that is exactly what is currently trying to find out.

Although he grew up in a conservative region, “his ideology was very different from that of his family,” said Cox without naming. According to the arrest warrant, Robinson had expressed an aversion to Kirk and his views.

According to “CNN” R. achieved a closely connected family and good results in standardized tests. Several people who have known Robinson since childhood remember his preference for video games. During his high school era, he belonged to a group of students who had played Nintendo Switch games together during the lunch break, an ex-German student told the newspaper. R. was introverted but funny: “As far as I remember, he was a joke biscuit.” The classmate could not remember that R. had ever talked about violence, weapons or politics.

In the high school, R. was still politically conservative – like his family – and supported President Donald Trump before the 2020 elections, as one of his former classmates said CNN. “When I met him and his family, they were die-hard Trump supporters,” said the former classmate. “As that [Attentat, d. Red.] I thought, I thought … I don’t know what has changed. “

Another ex-German student describes R. in the “Washington Post” as clever, funny and online very active. He spoke to R. about politics, about the “frustration about the system” and in particular that they felt calmly down by the two major political parties. R. seemed “hateful people” and “people who degrade others”.

After completing his high school in 2021, R. made a video in which he proudly read a letter from Utah State University, in which he was offered a four-year performance scholarship.

But the suspect left the state university after just one semester, took a break and never returned. According to “Washington Post”, the Utah University Council said that R. was in the third year of the training program for electricians at the Dixie Technical College in St. George, Utah.

Someone who worked with him describes CNN to the suspect as a shy person who “was not talkative if one did not address him”. R. “didn’t really talk about politics … unless someone brought up the topic,” the electrician told the US station and added that “he didn’t like Trump or Charlie (Kirk).”

The voter register show that R. was registered as a non -party voter, although he has never given a vote, said Washington County, according to CNN, said in a statement.

Investigators found engravings in four cartridge sleeves. These contained references to internet memes and video games. An inscription was therefore: “Hey Faschist! Catch!”, Plus arrow symbols. These correspond to the key combinations with which bombs in the game “Helldivers 2” would be thrown, said Amy Cooter, deputy director of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism . In the popular satirical game, super soldiers fight alien.

The messages used the reckless, sarcastic language of the online and gaming culture, explained the Terrorism control expert the . Cooter said that the sentences for uninitiated may sound like gibberish, but indicated someone who was familiar with the code of the Internet and the video game forums. According to the coot, it is an online printout, sexual excitement based on a profit or success.

The exact motif of the alleged assassin is in the dark and will probably still do some work for the investigators – as long as R. does not change his opinion and still says.