“Essentially, someone who was very close to him turned him in.” It was Trump, too, who first announced that his ally, Kirk, had died after he was shot in the neck at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. At a press conference on Friday morning, officials identified the person in custody as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson. Utah Governor Spencer Cox told reporters that “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.” Surveillance video shows the suspect arriving on campus at the university in a gray Dodge Challenger at 08:29 local time on the morning of the shooting, Cox said. He said investigators had interviewed a family member who said the suspect had become more political in recent years. Cox noted: “The family member referenced a recent incident in which Robinson came to dinner prior to September 10, and in the conversation with another family member, Robinson mentioned that Charlie Kirk was coming to UVU.” There was a mention that “Kirk was full of hate and spreading hate.” Cox said investigators had also spoken to a roommate of the suspect who had shown them messages with an account named “Tyler” on the messaging app Discord. The messages referred to a need to retrieve a rifle from a drop point and the rifle being left in a bush, wrapped in a towel. The FBI said on Thursday they had found the suspected murder weapon — an imported Mauser .30-06 bolt-action rifle — wrapped in a towel in a wooded area near campus. (BBC)