President Donald Trump confirmed that police have arrested the suspected assassin of conservative leader Charlie Kirk.
“I think with a high-degree of certainty, we have him,” he said on Fox & Friends Friday morning.
“Somebody that was very close to him said, ‘hmm, that’s him,’” Trump said. “And essentially went to the father, went to a U.S. marshal who was fantastic, by the way, and the person was involved with law enforcement, but was a person of faith, a minister, and brought him to a U.S. Marshal who was fantastic and the father convinced the son, this is it.”
Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated on Wednesday at a rally at Utah Valley University.
“We have the person that we think is the person we’re looking for, but they drove into the police headquarters, and he’s there now,” Trump said.
Trump said he hopes the killer of the young husband and father of two gets the death penalty.
“I hope he’s going to be found guilty, I would imagine. And I hope he gets the death penalty,” Trump said. “What he did, Charlie Kirk was the finest person, he didn’t deserve this. He worked so hard and so well. Everybody liked him.”
