Suspect In Charlie Kirk Shooting Arrested
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🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Ashley Lopez, justice correspondent Ryan Lucas, domestic extremism correspondent Odette Yousef, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org. |
| 0:14.6 | Hi, this is Nick. I'm currently hiking on the backside of Snowy Mount Thielsen in central Oregon, where I'm over |
| 0:22.7 | 1,800 miles into hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. |
| 0:26.2 | Wow. |
| 0:26.8 | This podcast was recorded at 1.03 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, September 12, 2025. |
| 0:33.2 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but hopefully I will be up in the northern |
| 0:38.8 | Cascades of Washington, or even having finished the trail and home, hiking over 2,650 miles. |
| 0:49.9 | This is the best time to be in the Pacific Northwest, so I'm really happy for him. I try to visit |
| 0:54.0 | this time every year. |
| 0:55.2 | That sounds wild. If you know, you know. Yeah. Welcome. Hey there. It's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover politics. I'm Ryan Lucas. I cover the Justice Department. And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. Today on the show, officials have announced an arrest of the person. They believe |
| 1:11.8 | shot and killed Charlie Kirk Wednesday, and we're going to talk about what we know so far. |
| 1:16.3 | Ryan, what do we know about the alleged shooter now? |
| 1:19.4 | So look, this is still pretty new. The officials in Utah just at a press conference about |
| 1:25.5 | this morning, so we are still kind of digesting what we've heard. But the individual's name is Tyler Robinson. He's 22 years old. |
| 1:33.3 | He's from Washington County in Utah, which is in the far southwestern corner of the state. So a good |
| 1:39.8 | chunk of distance from Or, where the shooting occurred. |
| 1:47.9 | We are still digging into his background and what more we can say. |
| 1:51.6 | But at this point in time, that much is confirmed. |
| 1:56.6 | Okay, why don't you bring us up to speed on how they eventually made this arrest about two days after the shooting? |
| 2:02.7 | Well, Utah Governor Spencer Cox is the one who announced it this morning, and here's a bit of what he said at the press conference. |
| 2:18.6 | We got him. On the evening of September 11th, a family member of Tyler Robinson reached out to a family friend who contacted the Washington County Sheriff's Office with information that Robinson had confessed to them or implied that he had committed the incident. This information was relayed to the Utah County Sheriff's |
| 2:23.9 | Office and seen investigators at Utah Valley University. This information was also conveyed to |
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