On Wednesday afternoon, Kirk was assassinated while hosting a \u201cProve Me Wrong\u201d debate at Utah Valley University. Kirk was shot in the neck by someone positioned on the rooftop of a nearby building on the university\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n
President\u00a0Donald Trump announced Charlie Kirk\u2019s death<\/a>\u00a0in a statement posted on Truth Social at 4:40 p.m. EST on Wednesday. The 31-year-old Kirk was survived by his wife, Erika, and two young children.<\/p>\n On Friday morning, Trump and authorities announced that they had arrested the suspect in Kirk\u2019s murder, later identified as Tyler Robinson. Tyler is a native of Washington, Utah, and agreed to turn himself in at the advice of his father.<\/p>\n Charlie Kirk was a prominent conservative political activist and commentator who had over 5 million X\/Twitter followers and racked up over one billion viewers on his YouTube channel.<\/p>\n <\/em>Requesting anonymity, a former high school friend of Tyler Robinson\u2019s spoke to Anna Betts of\u00a0The Guardian<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and discussed his personality and political views.<\/p>\n The former friend told Betts that Robinson was the only part of his family who was \u201cleftist\u201d, noting that the rest were \u201cvery hard Republican.\u201d They added that around his sophomore year, Robinson was always \u201cranting and arguing about\u201d his family.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew he (Robinson) had strong political views, but I never thought it would even go near that far,\u201d the former friend told Betts.<\/p>\n The friend added that they stopped talking to Robinson years ago and that they \u201cbegan to drift apart\u201d near the conclusion of high school.<\/p>\nFormer Friend Of Charlie Kirk Murder Suspect Speaks Out<\/h2>\n
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