The person accused of fatally capturing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Tyler Robinson, is scheduled to make his first court docket look on Tuesday afternoon in Utah, United States, the place prosecutors are anticipated to formally cost him with homicide.
Robinson is predicted to attend the listening to remotely by video from his jail cell.
That is what we all know:
What’s anticipated on Tuesday?
Robinson is behind bars as Utah County prosecutors transfer nearer to submitting costs within the killing.
Kirk, credited with rallying the Republican youth motion and serving to Donald Trump reclaim the White Home in 2024, was shot useless final week at Utah Valley College. Robinson was arrested two days later after a manhunt.
Prosecutors say costs might come on Tuesday, however the deadline might stretch to Friday if extra time is required to evaluate what they name a “mountain of proof”.
If the submitting occurs in the present day, a information convention is probably going.
“Assuming that we will file costs by Tuesday, we are going to maintain a press convention to elucidate these costs and the subsequent steps on this case. That press convention might be held Tuesday, September 16, 2025, at midday [18:00 GMT],” County Legal professional Jeff Grey stated in a press assertion on Saturday.
The fees are anticipated to reflect Robinson’s preliminary reserving.
“Our means to file costs is determined by how rapidly we will collect and punctiliously evaluate mountains of proof. We might be thorough and deliberate at each stage of this case,” Grey added.
If costs are filed on Tuesday, Robinson’s first court docket look will observe the identical day at 3pm (21:00 GMT) over Webex.
What costs are prone to be filed?
It’s not clear but, however Robinson was arrested and booked into the Utah County Jail early on Friday morning on suspicion of three crimes:
- aggravated homicide,
- obstruction of justice, and
- felony discharge of a firearm inflicting critical bodily damage.
Prosecutors have listed these offences in an affidavit filed with the court docket.
In line with Grey, beneath Utah regulation, aggravated homicide is punishable by demise, life in jail with out parole, or 25 years to life with the potential of parole. Obstruction of justice carries a penalty of 1 to fifteen years in jail, whereas felony discharge of a firearm inflicting critical bodily damage carries a sentence of 5 years to life.
In line with a Public Security Evaluation Report filed in Utah state court docket, Robinson has no prior convictions and no historical past of violent offences.
He’s at present being held with out bail.
What else is occurring on Tuesday?
FBI Director Kash Patel is getting ready to face powerful congressional scrutiny over his dealing with of the investigation into the killing of Kirk. Congresspeople are prone to press him on early missteps, together with a now-corrected social media put up wrongly claiming {that a} suspect was already in custody.
Patel will testify earlier than the Senate and Home judiciary committees on Tuesday and Wednesday, the place questions will probably prolong past the Kirk case to his broader management of the FBI. Congresspeople are anticipated to problem him on whether or not he can regular an company riven by political infighting and inside turmoil since his appointment, at a time when poisonous partisan divisions proceed to grip the nation.
The listening to will begin at 9am (13:00 GMT) on the Hart Senate Workplace Constructing, Room 216. A livestream might be out there here.
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What else can we learn about Robinson?
Robinson grew up in St George, southwestern Utah, the place his mother and father, married for about 25 years, run a granite countertop enterprise.
Eldest of the three brothers, he lived together with his household in a six-bedroom dwelling. Social media posts present an energetic, close-knit family that travelled broadly and loved out of doors actions similar to boating, driving in all-terrain autos, and goal capturing.
A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since childhood, Robinson excelled in class, making the honour roll and scoring within the 99th percentile on nationwide assessments.
In 2021, he earned a scholarship to Utah State College however left after one semester. He’s now a third-year scholar within the electrical apprenticeship programme at Dixie Technical School in St George.
State data present he’s registered to vote with no occasion affiliation and didn’t take part within the final two normal elections. Of their affidavit to the court docket, prosecutors stated a member of the family of Robinson had advised them that the 22-year-old had turn out to be “extra political in recent times”. The relative additionally advised prosecutors a few household dinner Kirk had attended earlier than the September 10 capturing, the place that they had mentioned Kirk. Robinson had talked about, throughout that go to, about Kirk’s upcoming occasion at Utah Valley College.
“They talked about why they didn’t like him and the viewpoints he had. The member of the family additionally acknowledged Kirk was stuffed with hate and spreading hate,” the prosecutors wrote within the affidavit, referring to Robinson and the relative they spoke to.
Prosecutors have additionally stated the ammunition recovered on the scene bore engravings tied to meme tradition and anti-fascist themes.
Utah Governor Spencer Cox additionally stated Robinson’s accomplice and flatmate, whom he described as “extremely cooperative”, was transgender. Nonetheless, although Kirk had anti-transgender views, investigators haven’t confirmed any hyperlink between that and his assassination.
