Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin Tyler Robinson FBI Director Kash Patel wrote a note saying he was going to ‘take out’ the conservative commentator.
‘I have the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it,’ the note read, according to Patel.
‘The note was written before the shooting, it was in the suspect’s home,’ Patel said Monday Morning on Fox News.
‘We have since learned the note – even though it was destroyed – we have found forensic evidence of the note and we have confirmed what the note said because our aggressive interview posture at the FBI.’
Robinson, 22, was taken into custody on Friday in connection with the assassination at Utah Valley University that shocked the world.
Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin Tyler Robinson FBI Director Kash Patel wrote a note saying he was going to ‘take out’ the conservative commentator.
Robinson is expected to be formally charged in Kirk’s murder on Tuesday
The 31-year-old conservative activist was debating with students at Utah Valley University on Wednesday when he was shot in the neck
As of Sunday, investigators were still piecing together information about the suspect and not yet ready to discuss a potential motive.
But Utah Governor Spencer Cox noted that Robinson, who is not cooperating with law enforcement, disliked Kirk and may have been ‘radicalized’ online.
Cox confirmed that investigators determined Robinson was actively joking with acquaintances on the messaging platform Discord after they noticed he resembled Kirk’s shooter.
‘Those conversations definitely were happening,’ the governor told ABC News. ‘And they did not believe it was actually him – it was all joking until he admitted that it actually was him.’
According to the messages obtained by The New York Times, one user on the platform started off by sharing the surveillance pictures and tagging Robinson’s username, writing ‘wya’ – or ‘where you at’ – with a skull emoji.
Robinson fired back almost instantly: ‘My doppelganger’s trying to get me in trouble,’ he wrote.
‘Tyler killed Charlie!!!!’ another user wrote in the group chat on Thursday afternoon, jokingly tagging Robinson.
It took authorities nearly two days to identify and arrest a suspect, forcing them to release surveillance photos of a suspect wearing a long-sleeved dark top, long pants, sunglasses and a baseball cap with a triangle on it at the university.
