What is known about Tyler Robinson, the accused of murdering Charlie Kirk?

Washington.- Tyler Robinson, the accused of murdering the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, is a 22-year-old resident of the state of Utah who was not enrolled in the university where the crime occurred and who had recently become politicized. Robinson was arrested more than 30 hours after he shot Kirk in the neck, a close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, while debating in front of about 3,000 people on the campus of Utah Valley University, in the town of Orem. After Trump announced that the suspect had been arrested in a morning interview on Fox News, several media outlets leaked his name. Shortly after, social media was flooded with photos of him at different stages of his life. Among others, of Robinson with his family traveling, at the university, dressed in a Trump costume on Halloween and in many of them of him holding a weapon since he was a child, which demonstrate that he had been in contact with weapons from a very young age. Robinson is the oldest of three siblings and lived with his parents in Washington County in the state of Utah. He was born in the town of St. George, a town of about 100,000 inhabitants in the south of the state.

Unaffiliated but recently politicized

His family was registered as Republican, however, he had no registered political affiliation and had not voted in the last elections, according to data from this summer. According to the authorities, his family stated that he had "become politicized" recently and that a few days before the incident he had mentioned Kirk and criticized some of his arguments.

In fact, it was a family member who finally turned him in to the police after images of him from a security camera had been published on the day of the attack.

Trump claimed it was his father, however, neither local authorities nor the FBI confirmed the relationship with the young man. His father has been identified by several media outlets as Matt Robinson, a veteran with almost 30 years of experience in the Washington County Sheriff's Department. His mother, Amber Robinson, is a social worker.

Good student and with internet references

A few years ago, his mother showed off on social media the results of his ACT exam, a standardized test for universities in the U.S.. Robinson obtained outstanding scores on this test.  Amber Robinson referred to her son in that Facebook post as a "genius" and assured that after these results his options were "infinite". Robinson seems to be a young man with a strong internet presence. After what happened, he wrote on the messaging and video game platform Discord about the rifle he would have used and wrote several messages about the messages he had recorded on the ammunition he used.

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The bullet with which he killed him had written "Notice a bulge. OwO What is this?" in relation to a popular online meme to parody "furry roleplay", people who dress up as animals. And in other "If you can read this, you're gay hahaha" and "Hey, fascist, Catch him!" followed by the arrows that correspond to a combination of video game commands to execute special moves in fighting games. Also written was the song of 'Bella ciao', an anthem of the Italian resistance against Mussolini's fascism and the Nazi occupation of the country during World War II. Robinson is being held in the county jail where the university is located and could face the death penalty.