‘Assassin’ Tyler Robinson wrote note saying ‘I have the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it’, FBI boss says

Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin Tyler Robinson wrote a note saying he was going to ‘take out’ the conservative commentator, according to FBI director Kash Patel.

‘I have the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it,’ the note read, according to Patel.

‘The note was written before the shooting, it was in the suspect’s home,’ Patel said Monday Morning on Fox News. 

‘We have since learned the note – even though it was destroyed – we have found forensic evidence of the note and we have confirmed what the note said because our aggressive interview posture at the FBI.’

Robinson, 22, was taken into custody on Friday in connection with the assassination at Utah Valley University that shocked the world.

Patel also revealed that DNA matching Robinson was found at the spot where Kirk’s shooter hid, as well as on the towel that covered the murder weapon when it was ditched in the woods by the killer. 

Patel confirmed that Robinson is not cooperating with investigators following his arrest on Friday.

As of Sunday, investigators were still piecing together information about the suspect and not yet ready to discuss a potential motive. 

But Utah Governor Spencer Cox noted that Robinson disliked Kirk and may have been ‘radicalized’ online. 

Family and friends of the suspect described his politics as veering left in recent years as he spent large amounts of time scrolling the ‘dark corners of the internet,’ Cox said Sunday.

‘The roommate was a romantic partner, a male transitioning to female,’ Cox said. ‘I can say that he has been incredibly cooperative, this partner has been very cooperative, had no idea that this was happening.’

The Republican Governor confirmed that investigators determined Robinson was actively joking with acquaintances on the messaging platform Discord after they noticed he resembled Kirk’s shooter.

‘Those conversations definitely were happening,’ the governor told ABC News. ‘And they did not believe it was actually him – it was all joking until he admitted that it actually was him.’

According to the messages obtained by The New York Times, one user on the platform started off by sharing the surveillance pictures and tagging Robinson’s username, writing ‘wya’ – or ‘where you at’ – with a skull emoji.

Robinson fired back almost instantly: ‘My doppelganger’s trying to get me in trouble,’ he wrote.

‘Tyler killed Charlie!!!!’ another user wrote in the group chat on Thursday afternoon, jokingly tagging Robinson.

It took authorities nearly two days to identify and arrest a suspect, forcing them to release surveillance photos of a suspect wearing a long-sleeved dark top, long pants, sunglasses and a baseball cap with a triangle on it at the university.

Governor Cox stressed on several Sunday morning news shows that investigators are still trying to pin down a motive for the attack on Kirk. The governor said more information may come out once Robinson appears in court Tuesday.

Investigators have spoken to Robinson’s relatives and carried out a search warrant at his family’s home in Washington, Utah, about 240 miles southwest of Utah Valley University.

State records show Robinson is registered to vote but not affiliated with a political party and is listed as inactive, meaning he did not vote in the two most recent general elections. His parents are registered Republicans.

A high school honor roll student who scored in the 99th percentile nationally on standardized tests, he was admitted to Utah State University in 2021 on a prestigious academic scholarship, according to a video of him reading his acceptance letter that was posted to a family member’s social media account.

But he attended for only one semester, according to the university. He is currently enrolled as a third-year student in the electrical apprenticeship program at Dixie Technical College in St. George.