CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSINATION: SUSPECT ARRESTED AFTER MASSIVE MANHUNT
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Shots ran out as Charlie Kirk sat on stage at a Utah Valley University event. The conservative activist reportedly hit near his neck and killed. According to reports, the shot was fired from the roof of a campus building about 200 yards away. Social Video posts show Kirk in a familiar pose, speaking into a handheld microphone, sitting under a white tent emblazoned with the slogans “The American Comeback” and “Prove Me Wrong.” The single shot booms and Kirk reaches up with his right hand. Blood gush from underneath. Today, President started the day tellling the nation a suspect was in custody. Tyler Robinson, 22, who lived at home with his parents. And it was his father that led to the arrest, identifying him in surveillance photos released by the FBI. The father told his son to turn himself in. With the help of a local youth pastor Robinson turned himself in.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.0 | Breaking news tonight, the lone shooter, the assassin that gunned down 31-year-old Charlie |
| 0:18.2 | Kirk. |
| 0:18.7 | With a high degree of certainty, we have him. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 0:22.6 | We got him. |
| 0:23.6 | A massive manhunt. |
| 0:25.6 | The suspect was taken in the custody at 10 p.m. local time. |
| 0:28.6 | The assassin who gunned down a loving father of two, a husband. |
| 0:32.6 | The suspect was apprehended in a historic time period. |
| 0:36.6 | We're in custody, right? |
| 0:38.6 | In custody. |
| 0:39.7 | The assassin who guns down a father of two. |
| 0:44.0 | He is observed on video in a plain maroon t-shirt, light-colored shorts, a black hat with a white logo, and light-colored shoes. |
| 0:52.5 | Arriving on UVU campus in a great Dodge Challenger at approximately |
| 0:57.0 | 829 AM, Tyler Robinson. Robinson had become more political in recent years. A second unfired casing |
| 1:04.3 | red, oh Bella Chow, Bella Chow, Bella Chow, Chow, and a third unfired case in red. If you read this, you are gay. |
| 1:13.0 | His wife and two little children who will grow up without daddy. |
| 1:19.3 | This is a very sad day for, again, for our country. |
| 1:23.5 | And I do know this is going to be a federal case. And there's many of us believe that |
| 1:27.0 | Charlie was targeted because of this political ideology. |
| 1:30.3 | Yeah. |
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