Charlie Kirk assassin has been named as Tyler Robinson.
Sources told the Daily Mail that the killer then confessed to his father, a 27-year veteran of the Washington County Sheriff’s Department, public records showed.
His father then contacted authorities and secured his son before he could be taken into custody.
His mother, Amber Robinson, works for Intermountain Support Coordination Services, a company contracted by the state of Utah to help disabled people receive care.
The New York Times reported that the suspect was taken into custody around 2300 local time in southern Utah on Thursday night. The alleged shooter lived in a $600,000 six-bedroom home in Washington, Utah, around 260 miles south of where the carnage unfolded in Orem.
Little is known of Robinson at this time, and officials have not yet released a motive to the shooting.
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