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Breaking: Tyler Robinson, 22, arrested in Utah as the alleged killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Edit: There is mixed reporting on whether he turned himself in or was turned in by his father. Check other sources.

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[–] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 73 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

let me guess, despite throwing the weapon down, he still has the gun on him, is wearing the exact same clothes, and was carrying a convenient manifesto along with a tattoo of the crime scene on his back.

Dude was able to evade the FBI for nearly 48 hours and he's still hanging out in Utah?

right.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Assassins are notorious for turning themselves in after assassinating people /s

[–] a_postmodern_hat@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well yes, I’m sure I don’t need to remind you that not doing so would be against the law.

[–] classic@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago

That's how I always do my Hitman playthroughs, don't you?

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It is very likely that he fully expected to have been killed after the shooting, and so he didn't have a long-term plan for survival.

Edit: Now that they've caught him, it seems he did have a plan: to carry the secret into old age. So then he immediately went and started telling his friends that he did it.

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was gonna say, that campus is right by a busy freeway. He could've had dinner in Vegas before breaking for Mexico

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

22 year olds are not widely known for their foresight.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

So let's let them buy guns.

[–] taco@anarchist.nexus 2 points 2 months ago

Put all his prep hours into practicing his aim.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

You're right about part of it. They're saying the clothes he was wearing when arrested were consistent.

You know, jeans, a T-shirt, and a hat.

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 56 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Son of a Mormon preacher police officer from Utah who's into guns and dressed up as Trump for Halloween one year. Yesterday it was "THE LIBERALS ARE KILLING US" and today will be silence and then the liberals will still somehow get the blame.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15086467/amp/Tyler-Robinson-Charlie-Kirk-killer-identified-Utah-Trump.html

All the have to do is fill the information vacuum with misinformation early. The MAGA base only needs that much and right wing sources don't issue corrections. After that, no new cognitively dissonant facts can dislodge the narrative.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 54 points 2 months ago (3 children)

White guy from an extremely mormon town. Clearly this was leftist.

I guess the right wing outrage machine is going to flip back to the subway stabbing now?

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 27 points 2 months ago

If he is right wing like Trumps would be assassin, the news will treat it the same way. As in not at all, nothing to see here, passed by after a day or so and never talked about again. Granted, the one article I read that named motive said the kid did it because he was mad about the Epstein files.

But I digress. Right wing, it’ll get quiet. Left wing it’ll be about blood.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Eagerly awaiting the “he was a covert operative Republican voter, secretly a democrat!1!1!” postings a la the guy who shot at Trump

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah they're still insisting that the guy who murdered the Hortmans is a "democrat" despite him having right-wing signifies all over him, because he got himself onto a state panel once.

I bet they'll scour this guys history to find him saying something good about Dennis Kucinich on some forum in 2015 or something to prove that he's really an antifa sleeper agent.

[–] ghostlychonk@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which is hilarious considering that Trump wasn't a Republican until he decided to run for office.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

He funded white Democrats before Obama.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Ok I'm not saying he was a leftist but don't act like it's at all unlikely for a 22 year old leftist to live in a Mormon town lol

That's like saying there's no gay people in the deep south

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank GOD! How DARE He use a Gun to Murder someone I LIKE! Once he's EXECUTED we can go back to ONLY Shooting Children in School!

[–] ghostlychonk@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's very telling that absolutely no Republicans even acknowledged the school shooting that happened in Colorado like 40 minutes after this.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This FBI really is useless huh. The killer turned himself in, otherwise they would never have found him.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure they wanted to find him. Now, they need to tell us who he is, and why he did it. I suspect his motives don't fit the narrative at all.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

is it me or does his face look really small for his head? like, are we sure someone isn't purposely shrinking his face on all pictures?

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So he and Luigi will form some sort of a team?

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I didn't feel the same way about this assassination, and I think it's cause of the United Healthcare assassin had a beautiful smile and camera trail.

This is just Utah. I figured it was probably some Mormon conservative shooter.

[–] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago

Luigi is the OG on which the legend will be born and he is gonna be the first disciple of the church of Luigi

[–] salty_chief@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Engravings on bullet casings:

"Hey fascist! Catch!"

"Notices, bulges, OwO what's this?

	"Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao"

	"If you read this, you are gay LMAO"
[–] hobovision@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Don't forget

⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️

aka "CALLING IN AN EAGLE" aka "The Five Hundo".

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

God fucking damnit, I thought it was someone clever who actually knew how to use privacy tools and hide for once.

Oh well, what's another six months wait for another dead nazi?