Messages from an online platform reportedly show Tyler Robinson, the accused killer of Charlie Kirk, confessing to his friends that he committed the heinous murder.
As reported on Tuesday’s AM Update, screenshots from messaging platform Discord obtained by The Washington Post show a conversation between the 22 year old suspect and a group of friends in which he wrote, “Hey guys, I have bad news for you all. It was me at UVU yesterday. I’m sorry for all of this.”
In the exchange, Robinson delivered the news matter of factly. “I’m surrendering through a sheriff friend in a few moments,” he allegedly wrote. “Thanks for all the good times and laughs. You’ve all been so amazing. Thank you all for everything.”
A source told The Post those Discord messages were passed along to law enforcement. Robinson posted this apparent confession in a different group chat than the one reported on in Monday’s AM Update in which he joked about the slaying and suggested the person in the FBI-released surveillance footage was his doppelgänger.
FBI Investigating
Officials from Discord claim there is no evidence Robinson planned the attack on their platform. But FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino confirmed on The Megyn Kelly Show Monday that the bureau is “not done at all looking into any possible support or aiding and abetting in the case” – a message FBI Director Kash Patel echoed on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
Patel spoke about an online group chat involving Robinson in response to a question from Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. “It has been leaked that there was a Discord chat… that the suspect participated in,” he said. “We’ve already done a sort of legal process, not just on Discord, so that the information we gathered is sustained and held in an evidentiary posture that we could use in prosecution should it be decided to do so.”
He added that the bureau is “going to be investigating anyone and everyone involved in that Discord chat.” And when Hawley referenced reports that put the number of users at “as many as 20,” Patel said it is actually even higher. “It’s a lot more than that,” he said. “We’re running them all down.”
Other Activity
That revelation comes on the heels of reporting from @Anc_Aesthetics on X and The Washington Free Beacon that the FBI is investigating social media accounts that appeared to have advanced knowledge of the Kirk assassination. Several belonged to transgender individuals.
Five days before the murder, @fujoshincel posted on X, “You guys… I have something BIG coming soon. Just be sure to check the news, you’ll know it when you see it [winking face emoji.” Tezuka followed up with, “Well, that’s that,” after Kirk was shot on September 10.
Another account posted more than a month before the shooting that “September 10th will be a very interesting day.” After the assassination, that poster followed up, “I plead the fifth” – a quip that was reposted churbum75m, an account that follows the accused shooter’s boyfriend on TikTok. Moments after Charlie was pronounced dead, churbum75m posted on X,”WE FUCKING DID IT.”
“So you have churbum75m, who follows the defendant’s boyfriend on socials, reposting the post saying September 10th would be a very interesting day, and the follow up pleading the fifth, then adding on his own, ‘We f-cking did it,'” Megyn recounted. “Seems rather telling.”
Another user, @NajraGalvz, posted a day before the assassination, “Charlie kirk is coming to my college tomorrow i rlly hope someone evaporates him literally.” Then adding, “Lets just say something big will happen tomorrow.”
On TikTok the night before the shooting, a clearly transgender person wrote, “charles james kirk, mr college dropout does NOT know what’s coming tomorrow. be ready… this isn’t a threat it’s a promise.”
Megyn called the social media activity “disturbing” but said it could also prove to be very implicating in a court of law. “It is going to be very hard for somebody to actually meaningfully argue that these people had no foreknowledge,” she said. “It is very telling.”
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