From 'Kirk is full of hate' to 'Hey, fascist! Catch!' - Who is Taylor Robinson?

By&nbspEuronews

Published connected 12/09/2025 - 21:26 GMT+2 •Updated 22:00

Details astir Taylor Robinson, the fishy arrested successful narration to the fatal shooting of conervative activistic Charlie Kirk, person begun to emerge.

He is the oldest of 3 sons, does not look to person a anterior transgression grounds and his societal media accounts comprise of household pictures.

How, then, did Taylor Robinson crook from a young, educated antheral into a fishy successful a "political assassination" arsenic it was described by authorities?

Family, acquisition and governmental views

The 22-year-old Taylor Robinson grew up successful a suburban assemblage of Washington successful Utah, not acold from Utah Valley University wherever Charlie Kirk was changeable successful the cervix successful beforehand of hundreds of students and supporters.

A high-scoring pupil and lad of arrogant parents, Taylor Robinson earned a assistance to be Utah State University aft graduating from Pine View High schoolhouse successful St George successful 2021. This was according to a video posted by his parent wherever helium reads his acceptance letter. Robinson second dropped retired aft the archetypal semester, the assemblage confirmed.

In presumption of his voting record, Robinson is registered arsenic an unaffiliated elector and did not ballot successful the 2020 and 2024 statesmanlike elections.

A household subordinate told investigators, however, that helium “had go much governmental successful caller years,” according to Utah Governor Spencer Cox connected Friday. The household subordinate besides told authorities that during a caller household meal that helium brought up what would go Kirk's fateful upcoming lawsuit successful Utah.

“They talked astir wherefore they didn’t similar him and the viewpoints that helium had,” Cox said. “The household subordinate besides stated Kirk was afloat of hatred and spreading hate,” said Cox.

Testimonies and evidence

The bolt-action firearm near adjacent the field wherever Kirk was shot, had assorted phrases engraved connected the slug casings, including “Hey, fascist, catch!”, arsenic good arsenic “Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao,” a lyric from a celebrated Italian anti-fascist song. Some besides appeared to get from online memes, speechmaking “If you are speechmaking this, you are cheery LMAO”.

Prior to his arrest, a household subordinate reached retired to a household person who past called the authorities, informing them that Robinson had “confessed oregon implied that helium had committed the incident”. He was past taken into custody 33 hours aft the murder, astatine 10pm section clip connected Thursday night.

The investigators besides spoke to a roommate of Robinson's, who showed them a radical chat app with messages "stating a request to retrieve a firearm from a driblet point, leaving the firearm successful a bush," engraving bullets, "having near the firearm wrapped successful a towel" and "a notation of a scope and the firearm being unique," according to the Utah governor.

Discord, the radical chat app successful question, has denied the messages were hosted connected its level and claimed they were alternatively portion of a consequent chat betwixt Robinson's rommate and a person who were discussing a enactment the fishy had near elsewhere.

Meanwhile, surveillance videos showed the fishy arriving connected field Wednesday greeting successful a Dodge Challenger, investigators said. He was seen successful a plain maroon T-shirt, light-coloured shorts, a achromatic chapeau with a achromatic logo and light-coloured shoes. When encountered by investigators, the fishy was wearing apparel “consistent” with those seen connected video, Cox said.

Shortly aft the announcement of his arrest, photos and videos from his family’s societal media profiles started to appear. His mother’s illustration was flooded with threatening messages earlier she deactivated her account.

Taylor Robinson is present successful custody successful Utah County jail. He was arrested connected suspicion of aggravated murder, felony discharge of a limb causing superior bodily injury, and obstruction of justice.

All of the supra are authorities felony charges, portion aggravated execution carries the anticipation of the decease penalty.