An individual is in custody within the capturing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump stated on “Fox & Pals” Friday morning.
“I feel, with a excessive diploma of certainty, now we have him in custody,” Trump stated.
He later added, “Topic to vary however the info are the info now we have the person who we predict is the particular person we’re in search of.”
The Utah Division of Public Security launched new photographs of the particular person of curiosity within the deadly capturing of Charlie Kirk.
Utah Division of Public Security
Trump stated he was instructed simply 5 minutes earlier than he went on air for the prescheduled interview that somebody was in custody.
“Basically, any person that was very near him turned him in,” Trump stated.
Trump stated the daddy of the suspect went to authorities and satisfied the son “and that is it,” the president stated.
Legislation enforcement has but to substantiate the arrest or present any particulars.
Trump reiterated within the interview that the shooter ought to get the demise penalty.
“In Utah, you’ve demise penalty, and a superb governor there, I’ve gotten to know him,” Trump stated of Gov. Spencer Cox. “The governor is intent on the demise penalty on this case and he ought to be.”
Within the newest video of the suspect, which was performed throughout a information convention with state and federal officers Thursday night, the obvious gunman may be seen climbing down from the roof of a constructing on the campus of Utah Valley College the place authorities consider he fired the deadly shot and fled rom the scene.
A nonetheless from a video launched by the FBI of the suspected gunman within the deadly capturing of Charlie Kirk.
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The FBI stated it was providing a reward of as much as $100,000 for info resulting in the identification and arrest of the particular person liable for Kirk’s homicide.
Utah authorities launched pictures of the particular person of curiosity within the capturing on Thursday through which the person may be seen strolling up the steps to the highest of the constructing the place the capturing came about whereas carrying a black backpack and sporting a shirt with what gave the impression to be an American flag print on it.
To this point authorities have acquired greater than 7,000 suggestions and leads and accomplished some 200 interviews, Cox stated Thursday.
Amid the manhunt for the shooter, officers stated Thursday they’re working “across the clock” to find the particular person of curiosity, who’s believed to be college-aged.
The FBI additionally stated Thursday it has recovered what’s believed to be the weapon used within the lethal capturing. A “high-powered bolt motion rifle” was recovered in a wooded space close to the place the capturing came about, in line with Salt Lake Metropolis FBI Particular Agent in Cost Robert Bohls.
The rifle is an older mannequin imported Mauser .30-06 caliber bolt motion rifle wrapped in a towel, a number of regulation enforcement sources instructed ABC Information. The situation of the firearm seems to match the suspect’s route of journey, the sources stated.
This display seize from a video by Amy King exhibits right-wing youth activist and influencer Charlie Kirk talking throughout a public occasion at Utah Valley College minutes earlier than he was shot in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10, 2025.
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The spent cartridge was nonetheless chambered and three unspent cartridges contained wording on them expressing what some regulation enforcement officers described as “transgender and anti-fascist” writing, in line with preliminary info shared with businesses. It is unclear what which means and authorities are nonetheless working to find out the which means or whether or not the markings had been meant as misdirection for investigators.
Officers stated that at 11:52 a.m. on Wednesday, the suspect arrived on the Orem campus after which proceeded to journey by means of the stairwells as much as the roof of a constructing close to the the place the outside occasion was going down, earlier than the shooter fired down at Kirk, Utah Division of Public Security Commissioner Beau Mason stated on Thursday.
Kirk was hit by a single shot at roughly 12:20 p.m. and brought to a hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless, authorities stated.
Flags, candles and indicators sit at a vigil for Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of Turning Level USA who was shot and killed, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, in Orem, Utah.
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After the capturing, the suspected shooter traveled to the opposite facet of the constructing, jumped off and fled off-campus right into a neighborhood, Mason stated. Officers are working by means of close by neighborhoods, contacting individuals with doorbell cameras and chatting with witnesses to establish any leads, Mason stated.
“I need to make it crystal clear proper now to whoever did this, we are going to discover you. We are going to attempt you, and we are going to maintain you accountable to the furthest extent of the regulation,” Cox stated throughout a press briefing Wednesday, calling the deadly capturing a “political assassination.”
He stated state officers are already shifting to pursue the demise penalty if the case goes to trial.
