The DNA on a towel that is wrapped around the alleged weapon with which Charlie Kirk was killed was out of custody with the suspect, said the FBI director on Monday.
22-year-old Tyler Robinson was arrested on Wednesday because of the death of the right influencer at an event at Utah Valley University. A bolt action rifle was won near the shootout, and a screwdriver was found on the roof, from which the fatal shot was fired.
“Today I can report that the DNA meets the towel that was wrapped around the firearm and the DNA is being processed positively for the suspect on the screwdriver on the screwdriver,” Kash Patel told Fox and Friends.
A formal fee is expected this week. A motif still has to be determined.
The FBI director also referred to a note that was discovered in the suspect’s house who had sworn to “remove” Kirk.
It is “basically say …” I have the opportunity to take Charlie Kirk out “, and I will take it that the note was written in front of the shootout,” said Patel.
He added, “although it was destroyed, we found forensic evidence of the note.”
The investigators also check social media accounts, which Mr. Robinson, according to the US news partner CBS of the BBC and all the signs, of which everyone knew the shootout before or promoted.
According to one by the BBC in Utah County Sheriff inmate, Mr. Robinson is accused of severe murder, disability of the judiciary and the relief of a firearm.
The breakthrough takes place according to the governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, said on Sunday that Mr. Robinson, who had been persuaded by his father, refused to work with investigators and had not confessed to carry out the shootout.
Cox added that Mr. Robinson’s roommate and partner helped in the investigation.
The Vice President JD Vance organized a tribute episode of Kirks Daily Podcast from the White House on Monday and spoke to conservative personalities and employees of the Trump administration in order to remember the youth leader for long-standing allies of the president.
“One of Charlie’s gifts was not to speak to them, but to engage them where they were,” Susie Wiles, chief of staff of the White House, told Vance.
The Vice President, a close friend of Kirks, also spoke directly to the audience and after his death struck the criticism of Kirk and claimed that “people on the left were much likely to defend and celebrate political violence”.
“I am desperate that our country combines my friend in the condemnation of the actions and ideas that my friend killed,” said Vance, but “there is no unity with the people who celebrate Charlie Kirk’s attack, and there is no unity with the people … who pay for the salaries of these terrorist sympathizers”.
Vance said that the administration “would work to promote the institutions that promote violence and terrorism in our own country”, which repeats former podcast comments by the deputy chief of staff of the White House, Stephen Miller.
“The last message that Charlie sent me was … that we need an organized strategy to pursue the left organizations that promote violence in this country,” Miller told Vance.
He said the government would “uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks”, from which Miller “led to this assassination”.
Kirk became national importance as a polarizing figure in the United States after he had found the U.S. turning point, a right -wing young political group, and used his audience online to build up support for often controversial topics.
The father of two had participated in the American Comeback Tour and attended several college campus in the USA to discuss college students when he was shot.
Patel was criticized for his actions immediately after the shootout, including the announcement of the arrest of a suspect a few hours after the shootout. Two hours later he confirmed that this person had been released.
“Could I have put it a little better in the heat of the moment? Sure. But I regret it to bring it out? Absolutely not,” he said on Monday about Fox News.
Patel is expected to ask questions at a hearing in the congress on Tuesday.
