Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the murder of American conservative activist Charlie Kirk, appeared practically on Tuesday for his first judicial hearing since his arrest
Previously, Utah prosecutors said they would look for the death penalty for Robinson, since they cited evidence against him, including the alleged text messages in which he seemed to confess the murder on September 10 during an even that Kirk was organizing at the University of the Valley of Utah (UVU).
“He had enough of his hatred,” said Robinson, 22, his floor partner and romantic partner when asked why he had committed the murder, according to the transcripts presented by the prosecutors before the court. “Some hatreds cannot be negotiated,” he added.
This is what we know:
What happened on Tuesday?
Prosecutors established extensive evidence against Robinson, much of her taken from her own communications with friends and family.
He also made his first appearance in the Court on Tuesday, Utah, through a video of the county jail where he is detained. Robinson appeared without shaving and using what seemed to be a green suicide prevention robe.
He showed no expression, but listened closely while the judge read the charges and warned that he could face the death penalty. Robinson only spoke once, to say his name.
In judicial documents, prosecutors began to present the case against Robinson, who was generally for more than 30 hours before surrendering.
The document also revealed Robinson's text messages to his floor partner, whom Utah County prosecutor Jeff Gray described as “a biological man who was involved in a romantic relationship with Robinson.” The Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, previously described the floor partner as a person “transition from man to woman.”
What was Tyler Robinson accused?
Gray said Robinson was accused of seven crimes, including aggravated murder and the serious crime of a firearm.
Gray said he would look for the death penalty, citing the threat to others in the UVU event where Kirk was shot, especially children, in addition to Kirk's murder.
The 10 -page load document presented by UTAH officials contains details about the reasoning behind the charges against Robinson.
Here are the charges against Robinson:
- Count 1: Aggravated murder, which refers to the shooting and murder of Robinson by Charlie Kirk in a way that exposed others, in addition to Kirk, with a great risk of death.
- Count 2: The discharge of a firearm that causes serious bodily injuries, a serious first -degree crime.
- Count 3: Obstructing justice, a severe second -degree crime, to move and hide the rifle used in the shooting.
- Count 4: Obstructing justice, which refers to the elimination of Robinson and the hiding place of the clothing he was wearing.
- Count 5: Witness witness, which refers to Robinson's statement to his floor partner telling him to eliminate his incriminating text.
- Count 6: Witness witness, a severe third grade crime, for ordering his floor partner to remain silent if the police interrogated him.
- Count 7: The violent crime committed in the presence of a child, which refers to Kirk's shooting by Robinson in the presence of children under 14, who were visible in the event.
Why did Robinson's mother suspected that her son was the author?
The document added to the previous details that the authorities had made public about Robinson shortly after their arrest, detailing how their family and floor partner had cooperated with the researchers and played a key role in convincing the suspect to be delivered.
The prosecutors said that his mother told investigators that the day after the shooting he saw a photo of the suspect in the news and thought his son looked like.
“Robinson's mother called her son and asked where she was. He said she was at a sick home … [She] She expressed concern to her husband that the alleged shooter resembled him. Robinson's father agreed, ”said the document.
“His father also believed that the rifle that the police suspected that the shooter used coincided with a rifle that was given to his son as a gift.”
Robinson finally spoke with his father on the phone and implied that he committed suicide, according to prosecutors. With the help of a family friend who is a retired vice president, his parents persuaded him to be delivered to the authorities.
Robinson's mother said that during the last year or so, her son had become more political and bowed more to the left, “becoming more gays and oriented to trans rights.” Robinson “started dating his roommate, a biological man who was making the transition of genres,” added his mother.
What else revealed text messages?
The day of the shooting, Robinson sent a text message to his floor and partner, said the document, telling them that “let what you are doing fall, look under my keyboard.”
When the roommate looked under Robinson's keyboard, they found a note.
The note said: “I had the opportunity to get Charlie Kirk and I'm going to take it.”
After reading the note, the apartment partner sent a text message to Robinson: “What ????????????
- Robison: “I am still well my love, but I am caught in OEM for a while yet.
- Floor partner: “Wasn't you the one who did it well?”
- Robinson: “I am, I'm sorry “
- Floor partner: “I thought they caught the person?”
- Robinson: “No, they grabbed a crazy old man, then questioned someone with similar clothes. He had planned to grab my rifle from my fall point shortly after, but most of that side of the city closed.”
A load document in the state of Utah V Tyler Robinson [Provo District Court/Handout via Reuters]
Robinson also told his floor partner that the rifle he supposedly used belonged to his grandfather. He sent several messages about how he could recover it while the police were looking for him in the hours after the shooting.
“I worry what my old man would do if I didn't bring the grandparents' rifle,” Robinson said in the messages, and seemed to consider if he could go back to him.
“I could have to abandon it and wait for you not to find impressions. How will I explain to my old man?” He said, according to the documents.
The document said the police found the rifle near the scene, wrapped in a towel. The towel, rifle and ammunition were sent for forensic tests.
“The DNA consistent with Robinson was found in the trigger, other parts of the rifle, the cartridge housing fired, two of the three cartridges without fire and the towel,” the document said.
Each rifle bullet had a different message recorded in its housing.
- Fired cartridge: “Avicios Bulge Owo What is this?”
- Second cartridge: “Hello Facista! Cate! [arrow symbols]”
- Third cartridge: “Oh Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao Bella Ciao Ciao, Ciao!”
- Fourth cartridge: “If you read this, you are gay Lmao”
Robinson seemed to joke about the messages, according to the document.
“Do you remember how he was recording bullets?” Robinson asked in the text messages to his floor partner. Then he said that the “messages are mostly a great meme, if I see 'notes bulge uwu' in fox new[s] I could have a stroke. ”
He also told his floor partner that he had been planning the attack against Kirk “for a little more than a week.” Robinson told the floor partner that “eliminated this exchange” and not talk to the police or the media.
Speaking of his father, a registered Republican, Robinson said that “since Trump assumed the position, [my dad] He has been quite staunch Maga “, according to the transcription of his exchange with his partner. He referred to Maga, the” Make America Great Again “movement of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who has remodeled the traditional republican policy.
What happens later?
Another audience will take place on September 29, at 10 am (16:00 GMT).
Judge Tony Graf said a lawyer had to be appointed to represent Robinson, and that the second hearing would occur on Webex.
Graf also declared that Robinson would remain in custody without bail.
