Who is Tyler Robinson? What We Know About his Descent From Promising Student to Charlie Kirk s Murder Suspect – WSJ

WASHINGTON, Utah Tyler Robinson was the pride of his Utah family. He was a 4.0 high-school student who won a prestigious college scholarship, according to social-media posts. 

His options are endless, his mother wrote on Facebook. 

Four years later, authorities say the 22-year-old Robinson used an old bolt-action rifle to fire a single shot that killed Charlie Kirk while the conservative activist spoke Wednesday at Utah Valley University. He allegedly had ammunition etched with phrases borrowed from internet and gaming culture like Hey, fascist! Catch! and If you read this, you are gay, lmao.

Authorities, friends and even his own family were trying to understand how Robinson went from a top student raised by parents who were registered Republicans in a Mormon stronghold in southwest Utah to a suspected assassin who authorities said targeted one of the country s most popular conservative youth leaders. Robinson was in the past registered as nonpartisan.

Clinton Robinson, Tyler s uncle, said that after authorities released surveillance photos of the shooting suspect, he showed an image to Tyler s father, Matt Robinson. I thought it looked like Tyler, Clinton Robinson said in a text exchange Friday morning with a Wall Street Journal reporter. Sounds like it was. My day just went to s .

I have no idea why he did this, he wrote.

via www.wsj.com