There isn’t a lot of news coming out of today’s press conference by Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray. Gray listed the charges against Tyler Robinson, the most serious (naturally) being “aggravated murder,” which I believe could subject Robinson to death by firing squad.
Beyond that, Robinson’s defense lawyer will have his work cut out for him:
Mr Robinson placed a message under a keyboard at their shared home, saying he planned to “take out Charlie Kirk”, according to a text exchange.
He wrote: “Drop what you are doing, look under my keyboard,” the messages revealed by officials said.
The roommate looked under the keyboard and found a note that stated: “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.”
After reading the note, Robinson’s partner asked if he was joking, saying: “You weren’t the one who did it right????”
Robinson replied: “I am, I’m sorry.”
That roommate/lover reportedly is cooperating with law enforcement. While he reportedly is not now talking to law enforcement, Robinson has effectively confessed, parroting the Left’s attacks on Charlie Kirk as his motive for the murder:
“There was too much evil in the guy, [Kirk] spreads too much hate,” Mr Robinson is alleged to have told his parents, when they asked why he shot Charlie Kirk.
Mr Robinson then spoke with a family friend, who is a retired deputy sheriff, who then convinced the suspect to turn himself in.
Robinson carried out the murder with an old bolt-action rifle that had belonged to his grandfather. In his text exchanges with his roommate he comes across as somewhat delusional:
Tyler Robinson planned to retrieve his grandfather’s rifle after Charlie Kirk’s killing.
The suspected assassin told his transgender partner that he was “stuck in Orem”, where the killing took place, because he needed to “grab my rifle”.
In an a text exchange with his partner, he said: “If I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence. Going to attempt to retrieve it again, hopefully they have moved on. I haven’t seen anything about them finding it.”
Robinson, who faces the death penalty, said he could get close to where he allegedly stashed the weapon in a wooded area close to Utah Valley University, but worried about being spotted by a “squad car parked right by it”.
“I’m worried what my old man would do if I didn’t bring back grandpas rifle,” he wrote. “ I might have to abandon it and hope they don’t find prints. how the f—will I explain losing it to my old man.”
He continued: “judging from today I’d say grandpas gun does just fine…I think that was a $2k scope.”
Explaining the loss of the rifle to his father was the least of Robinson’s problems.
I think the only question in this case is whether Tyler Robinson will be executed or sentenced to life imprisonment.
