Here’s what we know so far about Charlie Kirk shooting suspect Tyler Robinson, per MailOnline:

• Robinson, 22, allegedly confessed to his father Matt, who has worked at the Washington County Sheriff’s Department for 27 years
• His mother, Amber, works for a company which provides care for people with disabilities
• Robinson was a student at Utah State University on a scholarship
• He has two younger brothers
• He was taken into custody at about 11pm local time Thursday in southern Utah

The New York Post and NBC are reporting that the man arrested in the Charlie Kirk shooting case is Tyler Robinson, aged 22 and from Utah.

It’s thought the suspect’s father turned him in to a minister, who is involved in law enforcement.

President Trump appeared live on Fox News this morning, ahead of state and federal officials holding a news conference at 9am local time.

He said politicians should still hold public events in spite of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, saying: ‘You have to go forward.’

He also said he hasn’t seen the widely-circulated video of the moment Mr Kirk was shot, saying: ‘I didn’t want to remember Charlie that way.’

The US president announced on live television ‘with a high degree of certainty’ that the suspect in the Charlie Kirk shooting has been arrested.

‘I think we have him,’ he said on the Fox & Friends show, adding: ‘Somebody very close to him turned him in.’

Trump said a minister who is also involved with law enforcement turned the suspect in to the authorities.

Reuters is now reporting that the suspect in custody is a 22-year-old Utah man.

This graphic gives a birds eye view of where Charlie Kirk was when he was shot, the position of the suspected shooter and where he fled to after climbing down from the roof.

Here’s the footage released by the FBI of the suspected gunman as he runs across the roof of the university building, before climbing down and fleeing the scene.

Investigators found trace evidence on the rooftop including shoe impressions, a forearm imprint, and a palm print.

Among Charlie Kirk’s polarising views was his stance on gun control.

He made clear his opposition to gun control, saying in 2023: ‘I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights.

‘That is a prudent deal. It is rational.’

He posted on X in 2022 saying: ‘Gun control, like vaccines and masks, is focused on making people feel “safe” by taking freedoms away from others. Don’t fall for it.’

In 2019, he suggested that ‘criminals love gun control, it makes sure only the bad guys have guns and the good guys are defenceless’.

In 2018, he told a National Rifle Association (NRA) forum: ‘There is no first amendment without a second amendment, make no mistake.

‘You can’t pick and choose your freedoms… They put in the second amendment to protect us against government tyranny.’

A retired banker has described the fallout after being falsely accused of being the shooter who killed Charlie Kirk.

Michael Mallinson, 77, had been identified by a social media account impersonating a Fox news channel.

His daughter called him in a panic, telling him to delete his own social media accounts.

Michael says he has never stepped foot in Utah.

He told CBC: ‘This was all shock and horror, first of all, that there’d been a shooting, but second of all that I was in any way named or implicated in it.’

The gun believed to have been used in Charlie Kirk’s shooting was a Mauser .30-caliber, bolt-action rifle found in a towel in the woods.

A spent cartridge was recovered from the chamber, and three other rounds were loaded in the magazine, according to information circulated among law enforcement.

Bolt-action rifles, unlike self-loading semi-automatic rifles often used in mass shootings, are popular with American game hunters, target shooters and snipers in militaries around the world.

They require the manual loading of each cartridge into the chamber with a turn of the bolt, but are perceived as more accurate at longer ranges in order to fire a single, fatal, shot.

Utah is one of 27 US states with the death penalty. The state uses both lethal injection and the firing squad.

Eight people have been executed in Utah since 1976, with local news reports suggesting there are currently four men on death row, awaiting execution.

The shooter in Charlie Kirk’s case has already been threatened with the death penalty.

Utah governor Spencer Cox warned on Wednesday that ‘we still have the death penalty’, and authorities say they are gathering the evidence needed to ‘pursue the death penalty’ once the suspect is found.

While officials have called the shooting of Charlie Kirk a ‘targeted’ attack, they are still yet to suggest the specific motive behind the killing.

In a briefing late on Thursday, Utah Governor Spencer Cox warned social media was filling with ‘a tremendous amount of disinformation’.

He said ‘our adversaries want violence’ and cited China in particular as using bots to spread discord online.

Mr Kirk was a star on the Republican right and a particularly close ally of Trump, helping him to make surging gains in the youth vote when he won election last November.

However, Mr Kirk espoused multiple far-right views, making him hugely controversial.

He also fell out at times with fellow members of the Republican right – some of them, such as white nationalist leader Nick Fuentes, saying he was not hard-right enough.

A university student has said he saw a man on the roof of the building where a gunman shot and killed Charlie Kirk weeks before the shooting.

The student, who has not been named, said he had seen a man on or near the Losee Centre roof twice in the last two weeks.

While he said he couldn’t be certain, he suggested pictures released of a ‘person of interest’ in the case ‘looked familiar’, MailOnline reports.

The student told CNN the man on the roof was a ‘tall, skinny-ish white dude [who] had dark hair. He had this backpack on and was wearing dark clothes. It was weird’.

He says he called the FBI’s tip line and described what he’d seen in the aftermath of the shooting, but says he hasn’t heard anything back.

He also claimed a professor at the school had seen the man on the roof and questioned him, asking if he was ‘doing alright’, but the man on the roof dismissed him.

Debating society the Oxford Union says it ‘unequivocally’ condemns comments made by its incoming president after reportedly sending messages celebrating the shooting of Charlie Kirk.

George Abaraonye, a student at Oxford University who was voted president-elect of the Oxford Union earlier this year, posted several comments appearing to celebrate what happened, The Telegraph reported.

In one message to fellow students in a WhatsApp chat, Mr Abaraonye wrote, ‘Charlie Kirk got shot, let’s f****** go’, while another on his Instagram account read, ‘Charlie Kirk got shot loool’.

Mr Kirk and Mr Abaraonye, a politics, philosophy and economics student, met during a debate on ‘toxic masculinity’ held by the Oxford Union in May.

In a statement posted on X on Thursday, the Oxford Union said it ‘firmly opposes all forms of political violence and strongly stands by our commitment to free speech and considerate debate’.

The statement added: ‘The Oxford Union would like to unequivocally condemn the reported words and sentiments expressed by its President-Elect, George Abaraonye, with regards to the passing of Charlie Kirk.

‘His reported views do not represent the Oxford Union’s current leadership or committee’s view.

‘We would like to reiterate that our condolences lie with Charlie Kirk’s family, especially his wife and young children, who are enduring such terrible grief.’

A political pundit has reportedly been fired for comments he made on-air about Charlie Kirk.

Matthew Dowd appeared on MSNBC Live With Katy Tur when he was asked about the ‘environment’ in which a shooting happens.

He replied: ‘And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. And I think that is the environment we are in.’

Mr Dowd has now reportedly been fired after a backlash against his comments on social media.

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The chief of Utah’s department of public safety has told NBC News they have ‘no idea’ if the suspect is still in the state, the BBC reports.

When asked whether they thought the suspect was close by or still in Utah, Beau Mason said: ‘We have no idea. We’re exploring leads for individuals out of state and individuals that live close by.

‘We literally have persons of interest tips coming in on the tip line that are spanning far and wide.’

The ‘person of interest’ in the Charlie Kirk shooting appeared to be wearing a t-shirt from a disabled veterans group.

Photos show the person of interest in a black long-sleeve T-shirt featuring an American flag, an eagle and the words ‘Land of the Free, Home of the Brave’.

Joe VanFonda, the CEO of the Disabled Veterans National Foundation, said they had received a handful of calls from people who said the man appears to be wearing one of the group’s shirts.

He says the shirt was mailed to supporters of the foundation, a non-profit based in Maryland, and it’s never been for sale.

The group had shipped out thousands of shirts with the same logo to its donor list, but a more limited number were distributed in black with long sleeves since 2023. He added that most of their group’s donors were over 60.

Mr VanFonda, a retired Marine, said his group is non-partisan and had not been contacted by law enforcement.

In a social media age where public figures share daily updates about their lives, their death can hit viewers hard.

Student Dave Sanchez, 26, returned to Utah Valley University yesterday to mourn Charlie Kirk.

He said: ‘It still makes me sick to my stomach. We watch him all the time and so it really does feel like one of your own family members, your own brother’s been killed.’

Dave’s father came to the United States from Peru. He voted for Trump in 2020 and 2024, and was wearing a MAGA cap.

He said he admired Mr Kirk’s ‘dedication to faith, family and freedom’, adding: ‘He did change the political climate on campuses, leading young people to look at conservatism in a different way.’

Several hours ago, it was reported that investigators had the name of a ‘person of interest’ in the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Those same sources have now said ‘that lead has not panned out’, the BBC reports.

Officials held a press conference a few hours ago in which they released video footage of the suspect (scroll down to see the clip) and showed images of a ‘person of interest’ – but they still haven’t made any names public.

Utah department of public safety commissioner Beau Mason said the suspect left some palm impressions and smudges where investigators were looking to collect DNA.

‘There’s a shoe imprint where we believe the suspect is clearly identified as wearing Converse tennis shoes,’ Mason added.

Here’s what you might have missed overnight:

• The FBI and Utah police released a new video showing the suspect dropping down from the roof of a building before running into a wooded area
• A picture of the suspect has been released, showing him wearing sunglasses, a black t-shirt with an American flag and eagle, Converse shoes, and a baseball cap with a triangle on the front
• The FBI is offering a $100,000 reward for information that identifies and leads to the arrest of the suspect
• Authorities have recovered the gun they believe was used in the shooting: a high-powered bolt-action rifle – an imported Mauser. 30-06 bolt-action rifle
• Police say they are investigating multiple leads, and have received more than 7,000 tips so far
• Authorities are gathering the evidence needed to ‘pursue the death penalty’ once the suspect is found