Suspected Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson allegedly confessed to the slaying in an online chat before he surrendered to police, it has emerged.
‘Hey guys, I have bad news for you all,’ Robinson allegedly wrote in a message on Discord, The Washington Post reports. ‘It was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this.’
The suspected gunman was arrested late Thursday night and is being held in a Utah jail on suspicion of aggravated murder. He’ll appear before a court on Tuesday and will likely face capital murder charges that could see him executed by a firing squad.
Robinson allegedly sent his confession to a small group of close friends on Thursday night, before turning himself over to police.
Discord is understood to be cooperating with the FBI and local authorities on their investigation and has provided details about his online presence with investigators.
The platform previously revealed that an internal investigation ‘no evidence that the suspect planned this incident or promoted violence on Discord’.
Robinson allegedly used a sniper rifle to shoot Kirk with a single bullet to the neck while the MAGA activist was speaking Wednesday at an event on the Utah Valley University campus. He was arrested Thursday after a 33-hour manhunt.
Details about Robinson began to trickle out Friday, a picture emerging of a young man from a Republican family in St. George, a staunchly conservative city some four hours south of Orem.
Photographs showed the young man – who was in the third year of an electrician apprenticeship – posing with guns and dressed for Halloween in a costume in which he appears to be riding Trump’s shoulders.
It is alleged that Robinson carried a hatred for Kirk and ascribed to a ‘leftist ideology’ that had grown in recent years.
He lived with a transgender partner who has not been linked to the killing and who is cooperating with police.
Robinson’s family and friends said he spent large amounts of time scrolling the ‘dark corners of the internet,’ Utah Governor Spencer Cox claimed. Cox added that the suspect had been radicalized ‘in a fairly short amount of time’.
🚨BREAKING: Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson reportedly admitted his guilt in his Discord chat just 2 hours before he was turned in:
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 15, 2025
“Hey guys, I have bad news for you all. It was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this. im surrendering through a sheriff friend in a… pic.twitter.com/KNyXloy0pY
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