NPR News: 09-12-2025 6PM EDT
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🗓️ 12 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. |
| 0:04.2 | Authorities say the search for the gunman who killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk is over. |
| 0:09.2 | A 22-year-old man was arrested today in connection with Wednesday's shooting at a Utah college campus. |
| 0:16.1 | Steve Futterman reports. |
| 0:17.3 | As he announced that authorities had arrested the suspect, Utah Governor Spencer Cox |
| 0:22.4 | made a call for national unity. This is our moment. Do we escalate or do we find an off-ramp? |
| 0:29.2 | Although authorities have not shared a motive, Cox said a family member told investigators |
| 0:33.8 | that Tyler Robinson had become more interested in politics in recent years, |
| 0:38.5 | and had criticized Charlie Kirk's views, which he said were hateful. |
| 0:43.2 | The Utah governor said political differences should not lead to violence. |
| 0:47.8 | It's a choice. It's a choice. And every one of us gets to make that choice. |
| 0:51.5 | Formal charges are expected next week when Robinson is |
| 0:54.7 | due in court. For NPR News, I'm Steve Fuderman in Orem, Utah. A man was fatally shot this morning |
| 1:01.5 | during a confrontation with immigration officers near Chicago. The region is currently in the midst |
| 1:06.9 | of a heightened immigration enforcement campaign, which is being called Operation Midway Blitz. |
| 1:12.9 | NPR's Jasmine Garsd reports. |
| 1:14.8 | The Department of Homeland Security says this morning, during an immigration arrest, |
| 1:18.6 | Silberio Villegas Gonzalez, resisted arrest and attempted to flee in his car, dragging |
| 1:25.0 | an officer with the car. |
| 1:27.6 | Other officers fired on the vehicle killing Vigiegas Gonzalez. |
| 1:32.0 | The officer, he dragged, sustained multiple serious injuries, but survived. |
| 1:36.5 | A spokesperson for DHS told NPR that, quote, |
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