The FBI Has Identified A Suspect In The Fatal Shooting Of Charlie Kirk

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President Donald Trump said Friday that he believes, “with a high degree of certainty,” that Utah officials have detained the shooter who killed right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

The president made the announcement during an in-person appearance on Fox and Friends in New York City. Multiple news outlets confirmed that a suspect was in custody and undergoing questioning.

The Associated Press identified him as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson.

“Essentially, somebody that was very close to him turned him in,” Trump told the Fox hosts. “It’s interesting, we had very good pictures, but not great, not perfect.”

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Trump said he was told the suspect’s father and a religious leader were involved in bringing the individual to law enforcement. The man was “walked in” around 11 p.m. Thursday in southwest Utah, some 250 miles away from the site of the shooting, according to Fox News’ senior White House correspondent.

Trump praised the investigators, saying, “We started off with a clip that made him look like an ant, that was almost useless. We just saw there was somebody up there.” The investigation notably included several false starts.

Utah Department of Public Safety detained two other individuals it named as “suspects” in the immediate aftermath of the shooting on Wednesday, although further investigation revealed neither was involved.

FBI Director Kash Patel fed into the chaos by announcing on social media that agents had caught the shooter on Wednesday afternoon. He was forced to walk back the claim in another post soon after.

Utah DPS Commissioner Beau Mason told reporters Thursday they had “good video footage of this individual,” and described the suspect as “college aged” and “blended in well with the institution.”

The footage shows the individual arrive on campus at 11:52 a.m. and ascend several stairwells to the rooftop location where the shot was fired. A clip that was later released shows his escape: The figure runs across the roof, dangles himself down, jumps onto the grass, and flees into a nearby neighborhood.

The FBI’s Salt Lake City office had also released photos of a “person of interest” in the shooting that appear to have been taken from the surveillance video. The photos show a person wearing a black hat, dark glasses, and a black long-sleeve shirt with a design bearing an American flag in the center.

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FBI agents on Wednesday also recovered what they believe is the weapon used in the shooting, describing it as a “high-powered, bolt action rifle” from a wooded area nearby.

This article originally appeared on HuffPost.