Tyler Robinson appointed the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s shooting, how was he caught

The authorities have arrested the person who suspect shooting and killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Wednesday at an event of the Utah University campus.

Tyler Robinson, 22, was arrested in St. George, Utah, on Friday, authorities and sources to ABC News.

Robinson’s father recognized him as the person wanted by the police after the authorities distributed photographs.

Initially, the father told Robinson to be delivered. Robinson initially said no, but then changed his mind, authorities said.

Then, the father called a youth shepherd, who is also an officer of the task force of the US sheriffs. The officer advised the father to make Robinson stay in his place.

At a press conference on Friday, the governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, said Robinson had become more political in recent years and talked with a conversation with a family member about Kirk’s visit to the campus of the University of Utah Valley the night before.

Cox also described what was recorded in the housings found in the scene.

The first housing, according to Cox, said “Avicios Bulge Owo What is this?”

The other three housings without consulting said: “Hello fascist! Catch!” With an arrow symbol pointing up, then to the right, and then three arrows pointing down, “Oh Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Ciao, Ciao!” And “if you read this, you are gay Lmao.”

When the police identified Robinson, they also interviewed Robinson’s fellow, who showed them a message between Robinson and his roommate.

“The content of these messages included messages affiliated with contact with Tyler, indicating the need to recover a rifle of a point of fall, leaving the rifle on a bush,” Cox said. “Messages related to A to visually observe the area where there was a rifle, and a message that refers to having left the rifle wrapped in a towel. The messages also referred to the engraving bullets and a mention of a scope and the rifle is unique. The messages of the contact Tyler also mentioned that the attire had changed.”

Cox said Robinson arrived at Campus driving a Gray Dodge Challenger, which combined with his vehicle in which he arrived at the campus.

He also thanked Robinson’s family, “who did the right thing.”

The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, said the police caught Robinson within 33 hours of the shooting and was on stage in 16 minutes.

“This is an ongoing investigation, as the governor said, and we will continue working with the state and local authorities to develop the investigation to provide them with the evidence they need for their ongoing prosecutions,” Patel said.

The authorities and a former FBI agent said previously that they believed that the subject was a person of university age with an apparent competence in the management of a high -power rifle and probably knew the design of the university where the homicide occurred.

President Donald Trump initially announced the arrest, declaring in “Fox and Friends” on Friday morning, “I think that with a high degree of certainty, we have it in custody.”

During a press conference on Thursday night, state and federal officials published a video of the person of interest that jumps from the roof of a building on the campus.

Beau Mason, commissioner of the Utah Public Security Department, said the suspect carried “different clothes” that could help in their identification, including Converse Sneakers.

He said that the person seen in the video jumps from the roof left shoe impressions and a palm print.

“We are investing everything we have in this and we will catch this individual,” Mason said at the press conference.

The authorities had received more than 7,000 potential tips and clients and completed about 200 interviews, said Utah governor Spencer Cox.

During a press conference on Thursday morning, Robert Bohls, a special agent in charge of the SALT Lake City field of the FBI, said the researchers believe they have recovered the weapon used in what Utah’s governor on Wednesday called a “political murder.”

Bohls said the weapon, a rifle of high power, was discarded in a wooded area near the Utah Valley University (UVU) in OREM, and is being analyzed in an FBI laboratory for any track that can identify the armed man.

More specifically, the multiple law sources with knowledge of the investigation told ABC News that the weapon is an older model of imported Mauser .30-06 caliber bolt action rifle that was found in a towel in a forest area near the school. The sources said a cartridge spent in the weapon camera was discovered.

The weapon and the recovered cartridges will be taken to the FBI main laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, for the most technologically advanced forensic analysis, they told ABC News. The approach is to look for digital footprints and latent DNA, the sources said.

The researchers also collected a shoe impression, a palm impression and forearm impressions for analysis, said Bohls.

Mason said that researchers are also studying “good video images” of the shooter they have used to track their movements before and after filming.

After Thursday’s press conference, the FBI in Salt Lake City launched surveillance images of the person of interest sought in relation to the shooting. The images show a person who seems to be a white man, who wears all the dark clothes, including a dark lid -without long -sleeved collars with what seems to be an image on the front that includes an American flag. The man in the images also wears a dark cap and sunglasses.

The FBI announced that a $ 100,000 reward is being offered to obtain information that leads to the suspect’s capture.

Mason said researchers believe that the suspect arrived at the UVU campus at 11:52 am local time, approximately 28 minutes before Kirk, CEO and co -founder of the Conservative Organization of Grass Roots, Turning Point USA, was shot. He said the deadly shot was triggered from a building at a substantial distance where Kirk was talking to a crowd, the estimated authorities were around 3,000 people. He did not reveal what construction of the shooter shot.

“We have tracked their movements on the campus, through stairs, to the roof, on the other side of the ceiling to the shot,” Mason said. “After the shooting, we were able to track their movements while moving on the other side of the building, jumped from the building and fled from the campus to a neighborhood.”

He said the researchers combed the neighborhood for the suspect and contacted residents with bell cameras to analyze.

“The individual seems to be university age,” Mason said, added that the person of interest, “he mixed well with the university institution.”

Brarett, a FBI -retired agent and ABC news collaborator, said that evidence researchers have shared so far paint an image of a suspect that planned the shot to the last detail, including the discharge of the possible homicidal weapon along their escape path.

“He probably did that [because] I didn’t want them to see him by carrying a gun, running through a neighborhood or walking through a neighborhood, “Garrett said.

Garrett said that the discovery of the weapon is an important clue that will give researchers additional advantages to locate.

“Where did it come from? It could be registered or bought by this shooter. We will have to see,” Garrett said. “Was whatever? Whatever, ATF [the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] He will help them immediately, and they probably know what that is. “

Garrett said that the discovery of Palma’s printing of the murderer can also be useful.

“If you have ever had a complete set of impressions, where you print your entire hand, let’s say she had been in the army or in some aspect of the government or a contractor, they can have them,” Garrett said. “That is a long shot, but they can have them.”

Garrett said the distance from where the shot was shot, he could also shed light on the identity of the gunman.

“I suppose that … A scope and a tripod would have helped him a lot for stability, but the true key is that if he were capable, and unfortunately he did, he shot a shot that killed Charlie Kirk, that shows some competition because it is very difficult to have the breath and concentration to achieve a shot like that and that is what killed the person,” Garrett said. “Does that suggest prior training? Maybe. It certainly suggests that someone who has been practicing a lot with this weapon or some weapons like this.”

Garrett said the researchers probably go to each weapons range and a weapon store in the area to determine if the gunman had visited them.

“The concern obviously as time passes … did you leave the area? If it is intelligent, then it did,” said Garrett. “But many times, these types of shooters do not do that.”