Suspect Arrested for Charlie Kirk's Murder, Trump Confirms

President Donald Trump has just announced that the suspect in Charlie Kirk‘s murder has been captured.

Trump confirmed that the FBI arrested the suspect on Friday morning.

The suspect has been identified as Tyler Robinson.

Robinson was born in 2003 and is from Utah.

During an appearance on “Fox & Friends,” Trump announced:

“I think with a high degree of certainty, we have him in custody.

“Everyone did a great job,” Trump added.

“We worked with the local police, the governor.

“Everybody did a great job.”

The suspect was turned in by those close to him, Trump revealed.

“A minister who was involved with law enforcement,” he noted.

“I hope he’s going to be found guilty, and I hope he gets the death penalty,” the president declared.

“What he did — Charlie Kirk was the finest person, and he didn’t deserve this.”

Trump did not ID the suspect during the interview.

WATCH:

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: President Trump says they have Charlie Kirk’s kiIIer IN CUSTODY

HELL YES! pic.twitter.com/Gv6iMybHlC

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 12, 2025

Investigators have scheduled a public update for later this morning.

The unidentified gunman shot the 31-year-old Kirk while he was speaking at the Utah Valley University campus on Wednesday.

Initial reports described the suspect as a gunman wearing jeans, a black shirt, and a black vest perched with a long rifle atop a building east of the school’s library.

The FBI released a photo on Thursday of a “person of interest” and offered a $100,000 award.

Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Point USA and father of two, had just answered a question from an audience member about mass shootings committed by transgender people when he was hit in the neck by a single bullet.

The suspect was allegedly believed to have fired a single shot from an elevated position about 200 yards from the tent where Kirk was seated at the university’s Losee Center, authorities revealed.

Video showed Kirk jerked back and appeared to recoil in pain and grab at his neck as the crack of a single gunshot rang out from the crowd.

The shot sent thousands of spectators into a panic.

“I didn’t watch,” Trump told Fox News on Friday of the shockingly graphic videos.

“I heard about it… I would have never made a good doctor, let me put it that way,” the president said.

“I mean, I heard enough. I didn’t want to watch it…

“I didn’t want to remember Charlie that way.”

The announcement comes one day after Trump told reporters he would attend Kirk’s funeral after he returns from a preplanned trip to the United Kingdom next week.

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