Kirk’s shooter, Tyler Robinson, has apparently turned himself in, apparently after confessing to his own father (?)
I’ve tried to capture the relevant bits of this extremely rapidly updating and currently in progress series of events.
9 a.m. EDT
While appearing on Fox and Friends, Trump said “I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him in custody.”
Trump said authorities acted after receiving a tip from a minister who recognized the suspect from the images released by law enforcement.
The president said he believed the suspect’s father was also involved in arrest, but added that this information was still preliminary and the details could change.
9:15 a.m. EDT
Trump said he would attend a funeral next week for Kirk, “who should not be having a funeral right now,” when asked about his scheduled trip to the U.K. from Sept. 16-18.
9:30 a.m. EDT
The suspect was identified as Tyler Robinson, 22, from Utah, according to multiple reports citing people with knowledge of the investigation.
10:10 a.m. EDT
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox confirmed in a press conference Friday morning that a suspect named Tyler Robinson has been detained.
Apologies for this being a paywalled Forbes article.
Hmm. He doesnt look like a Black Muslim Trans Gay Antifa
We’re very good st disguising ourselves
Licks eyeballs
Did you bring enough eyeballs for everyone to lick? If not, put them in the trash.
Fun fact I had a teacher say this to me about my trail mix for while I was waiting to be picked up, I wasn’t even in first grade or anything I think it was the grade before middle school. I threw a chair at her, got expelled, fuck that school and the a teacher.
retracts stalk eyes
I guess at least vegan has dropped out of the rotation, lol… oi vei…
He could be antifa, or at least a radicalized nihilist with those sympathies. He did etch into his bullets a mix of furry memes and anti-fascist messaging.
Or maybe he did this as part of a dollar store false flag operation, because he is a far-right extremist. We just don’t have enough information to be certain, yet.
I will say that he certainly fits the profile of a right ring terrorist: young, white male, Christian, proficient marksman, terminally online, and the son of a long time police officer.
The anti-fascist messages were quotes from video games (Helldivers and Far Cry), so maybe he means it or maybe just more memes, hard to say.
He also quoted an old Italian anti-fascist song, Bella Ciao.
Whether he’s an anarchist, Marxist, or Nazi, it’s clear he was terminally online and steeped in meme culture.
Of course, that’s about as helpful these days as saying someone uses dating apps.
Bella Ciao was featured in Far Cry, which I am guessing is where he heard it. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t know it’s an anti-fascist song, though.
Lol.
The cucks over at /r/cuckservative started celebrating in a post when reports that the suspect was caught started coming in. Now that we know it was a law enforcement officer’s kid raised in a MAGA family they’re cannibalizing each other and there’s a shit ton of deleted comments and crybabies refusing to accept reality, per usual.
Sorry I am now almost 3 years clean from reddit, you mean /r/conservative, or is there an actual /r/cuckservative, which is funny because of double meta irony or something?
Either way, screencaps would be appreciated =D
Pretty sure they’re just referring to conservative, but man there really should be a cuckservative community.
I think there is a ‘conservative’ comm somewhere on lemmy… it was apparently orginally run genuienly… and then the mod quit… and then I think somebody else ‘adopted’ it… and then ran it as a parody.
Onr could say interest in the community seems pretty dead, lost its lifeblood.
I think satansmagottycumfart took ownership of it. It was so funny
Well, I’ll be, bless his twisted little dead heart, ahahaha!
I think the genuine conservative com is conservative2
Where, in classic “freezepeach” fashion, they lock comments on a bunch of their posts
Huh, you know there was a time where they didn’t want to put the shooter’s name in print and headlines after school shooting because they were worried about copycats. It was quickly abandoned because the Press are fucking monsters. I’m surprised they didn’t go back to that logic today though.
Somebody realized they get a spike in traffic whenever there’s a shooting or something along those lines. Fresh blood keeps the ad revenue flowing.
More blood for the blood gods, apparently.
While appearing on Fox and Friends, Trump said “I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him in custody.”
In a country with a functioning justice system, that would have gotten the guy a mistrial at least. But we don’t have to worry about things like Law anymore, right Justice Boof?
Insane gun culture combined with religious indoctrination before kindergarten leads to child terrorists… no one is shocked
The details of this are so stupid I don’t want to believe it. I don’t want to jump straight to conspiracies before I really know much either, but seriously?
Maybe I just imagine political assassins to be more careful and intentional than they really are.
From what I am hearing from Kyle Kulinski…
The kid is very academically bright, possibly autistic, obviously into online uwu meme culture… appears to be from a well-off Republican family, which involved a good deal of being raised with guns, definitely is not registered as a Democrat, may have himself donated to Trump’s campaign, wore a Trump costume to a Halloween party… and also wrote Bella Ciao lyrics on a casing.
So… I am going with ‘very confused, nerdy, ancap kid with above average marksman skills for someone his age and no military training’.
… But thats all extremely speculative at this point.
He appears to have literally done this for the lulz, and then become overwhelmed with guilt.
I do not know what to make out of this other than our society is doomed.
I won’t be surprised if he used fediverse/Lemmy do we know what his major is?
Oh god please don’t say that, this reeeeally does not need to be the way normies learn about lemmy/fediverse oooh no.
His major?
In August 2020, Amber Robinson posted what appears to be an ACT college aptitude test score for Tyler – 34 out of 36 – that would place him in the top 1% of test takers, according to recent averages.
Tyler wore a Trump-related Halloween costume in 2017, according to Amber’s social media.
The eldest Robinson son graduated from Pine View High School in St. George in 2021, according to Amber Robinson’s social media. The high school did not immediately respond to an inquiry from USA TODAY.
Tyler is photographed at Utah State University and was offered an academic scholarship to attend the Logan, Utah-based university according to a letter he read aloud in a video posted to Amber’s social media.
Utah State University said the suspected shooter “briefly attended Utah State University for one semester in 2021.”
He lived at home with his parents, according to neighbors who spoke with USA TODAY.
Undetermined.
He… seems like he dropped out, or more like bounced off of going to college… ???
Yeah… certainly looking like some kind of perma online, basement dwelling, probably autisitc, uber dork.
Which I say lovingly, in reference to most of us here.
But yeah… If he bounced off after one semester, he would not have even gotten to declaring a major, I don’t think.
I seriously hope that he doesn’t have some kind of mental health issue because Kennedy will have a big excuse to come after anyone who has a mental health diagnosis no matter how minor their condition is.
Doesn’t look anything like him.
You know the likes of Facebook, X and LinkedIn like it because traffic explodes by people trying to see if they know the person, or know of people who know them, or any of their digital footprint.
