New revelations in Charlie Kirk murder case as suspect is charged
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🗓️ 17 September 2025
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According to court documents, the 22-year-old had been planning the attack for a week.
USA TODAY Government Accountability Reporter Erin Mansfield discusses how lawmakers grilled FBI Director Kash Patel over the investigation into Kirk's killing.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Wednesday, September 17th, 2025. |
| 0:09.8 | This is USA Today's The Excert. |
| 0:14.7 | Today we're learning more about the arraigned suspect and the murder of Charlie Kirk. |
| 0:18.7 | Plus, some of the tough questions FBI director |
| 0:20.8 | Cash Patel is facing, and we remember Robert Redford. The 22-year-old suspect in the |
| 0:27.2 | killing of Charlie Kirk was arraigned yesterday on charges that came with new details about him. |
| 0:31.7 | Tyler Robinson is accused of shooting Kirk in the neck during a public appearance at Utah Valley |
| 0:36.0 | University last week. According to court documents, he had been planning an attack for a week appearance at Utah Valley University last week. |
| 0:41.4 | According to court documents, he had been planning an attack for a week, and afterwards he messaged his roommate with whom he was in a romantic relationship. Those were among the details |
| 0:45.8 | contained in a 10-page criminal information released by Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray, |
| 0:50.6 | who charged Robinson with aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm, |
| 0:54.8 | obstruction of justice, and witness tampering for instructing his roommate not to cooperate in |
| 0:59.6 | Kirk's death. After the shooting, Gray said the roommate, who is cooperating and hasn't been |
| 1:03.7 | charged in the incident, shared text messages between the two. Robinson's roommate described |
| 1:08.1 | the exchange to police and willingly showed them the messages, according to officials. |
| 1:12.1 | Robinson's mother told police that her son had become more political over the last year or so and had started to lean more to the left. |
| 1:18.4 | Meanwhile, Gray said that DNA consistent with the suspect was found on the trigger of the rifle, believed to have been used to kill Kirk. |
| 1:25.0 | Gray also announced he would seek the death penalty, something President Donald Trump has called for publicly. |
| 1:33.8 | FBI director Cash Patel faced tough questions from Senate Democrats yesterday as they pressed |
| 1:38.6 | him on his agency's handling of major investigations, especially the killing of Charlie Kirk. |
| 1:43.7 | I spoke with USA Today, |
| 1:44.7 | government accountability reporter Aaron Mansfield for more. Hello, Aaron. Hi, how were you? |
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