Report: Charlie Kirk Assassin Suspect Allegedly Confessed in Discord Chat
“It was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this.”
Again, I normally wouldn’t do this, but a few details made me think it’s legit.
The Washington Post reported that Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk, allegedly confessed in a Discord chat.
“Hey guys, I have bad news for you all,” said a message from an account belonging to the suspect, Tyler Robinson, on the online platform Discord. “It was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this.”
The message was sent Thursday night, about two hours before officials said Robinson was taken into custody.
A member of the group chat shared an image of the conversation with The Post and confirmed that it came from Robinson’s account. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect their privacy and out of fear of harassment.
Discord provided a copy of the message with the confession to authorities, according to a person familiar with the company’s interaction with law enforcement. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the investigation.
The message was sent from Robinson’s account to a small private group of online friends, the person said. Discord is working closely with the FBI and local authorities, providing information about Robinson’s online activities on the platform, the person added.
Robinson allegedly didn’t say anything until the next day:
The only response from Robinson’s account came the next day with the message announcing “bad news.”
“im surrendering through a sheriff friend in a few moments,” the message, posted at 7:57 p.m. local time in Utah, continued. “thanks for all the good times and laughs, you’ve all been so amazing, thank you all for everything.”
The group contained a small group of online friends, according to the person who supplied the chats.
The person also confirmed that Discord has started working with law enforcement about Robinson’s activities.
However…it didn’t take long for Discord to tell everyone “that an internal investigation found ‘no evidence that the suspect planned this incident or promoted violence on Discord.’”
Weird!!
One problem with the WaPo report, though.
Did anyone say anything after Tyler allegedly confessed? I read through the article again and could not find anything else said in the chat.
The chat showed people reacting to Kirk’s assassination but nothing about the alleged confession.
Despite that problem, why do I feel it’s okay to write about this?
Let’s go back to September 13 regarding another Discord chat.
The New York Times received copies of a Discord group chat with Robinson from someone who knew him in school and a member of the group chat:
Tagging Mr. Robinson’s username on Discord, a messaging platform, the acquaintance attached the images and wrote “wya” — where you at? — with a skull emoji, suggesting that Mr. Robinson, 22, looked like the man being sought.
Mr. Robinson replied within a minute. His “doppelganger,” he wrote, was trying to “get me in trouble.”
“Tyler killed Charlie!!!!” another user wrote, apparently in jest.
That was on Thursday afternoon, around 1 p.m. local time. It was not until later that night, nearly 34 hours after the shooting, that Mr. Robinson was arrested on suspicion of carrying out the assassination of Mr. Kirk, 31, a conservative pundit whose killing has inflamed the political world.
Then, this morning, FBI Kash Patel made an interesting comment about group chats on FOX News.
The anchor asked Patel about numerous group chats and what the agency has learned from those discussions.
Patel said the agents couldn’t just dive into the chats because they needed warrants due to the legal process. But he confirmed group chats exist.
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Another site I frequent covered a “Keystone Krooks” kidnapping of a baby, one that the cops completely resolved in two hours, I commented that cops really benefited from the IQ deficit making their jobs that much easier.
Looks like the left’s street army has a terminal keep-your-mouth-shut deficit. I’m down with that.
Look how long Ted Kaszynski eluded authorities. While I don’t want to dump on law enforcement, the reality is they are GREATLY benefited by the fact that the vast majority of criminals are blithering idiots. On the rare occasion they run across legit high IQ evil-doers, like the Unabomber, they’re often stumped for years…or longer.
Had Kirk’s murderer disguised himself better or had Brian Thompson’s murderer ditched the clothes and gun they’d have had a much better chance of not getting caught. Even something as simple as remaining silent can go a long way.
That’s exactly correct. Had Luigi disguised himself better (people at the McDonalds told police they recognized him because of his notably bushy eyebrows), he probably never gets caught, too…presuming he keeps his mouth shut, as you say. There’s an unrelenting narcissism at work in many of kinds of of shootings. I suspect it’s the kind of narcissism that compels these idiots to tell people about their crimes: ‘See what I did? Look how great I am.’
Luigi wanted to be caught. He’s a hmsxl narcissist.
The left doesn’t have a “street army.” Anyway, this was right-on-right violence.
“And here’s why that’s a good thing.”
They have trouble keeping their mouths shut because feeding their egos is their primary motivation, actually advancing their cause is secondary, if it exists at all.
Let’s hope that the DOJ goes after Antifa.
From what I’m able to gather, this particular Discord server was likely the one he used with friends from high school or from someplace else in the local area. This would explain why people on that server could see the resemblance between Robinson and the photos released by the FBI. They recognized him because they’ve known him for years. This probably isn’t the group of people who radicalized him. That contact was almost certainly driven through a different Discord server or another social media platform altogether. If there’s a conspiracy to be found, those are the places that it’s going to be found. Not this one.
I’m going to pre-emptively throw this out there: this ‘shooter’ did not kill himself.
Which tells you…what, exactly?
It’s such a trite SOP.
Meanwhile, I notice that the golf course shooter hasn’t killed himself, either.
And yet we haven’t heard squat from/about him, he just fell out of the news.
It sounds like with or without his confession they have him dead to write. They have DNA placing them at the place the shooter lay to take Aim and they have his DNA wrapped in a towel around the murder weapon which I’m sure they can verify with ballistics. As well as fingerprints and DNA on the weapon itself as well as the screwdriver left on the roof. Why, by the way, would he be on the roof of a building at a university where he doesn’t go to school?
Oh, love that voice dictation. That’s supposed to be they have him dead to rights..
Why does the FBI need warrants? Are this Discord and Reddit chat groups not “common area” or considered “public spaces”?
What if a member of a chat is cooperating with the FBI? Can that user provide the FBI access and would what the FBI finds be legit evidence (i.e., not blocked by the court for having been illegally acquired)?
They need it to get all the unique forensic information like user email and ip addresses that would tell you who the username is, and all the others he communicated with.
Also for deleted content and DMs that might be stored on servers.
Each of those actions is a separate warrant, then others for each person touched. That’s a lot of paper
Only if your name is Trump
How long before the trial? I suspect at least a couple of years, even though Federal Law requires 70 days from indictment
Keep in mind that the 70-days only applies to federal criminal cases, which this isn’t….yet. Federal criminal cases take (on average) 7.5-months to go from indictment to trial. But, that average includes all cases. More serious felonies, like capital cases, can easily take much longer, 1-year or more. On News Nation, they interviewed a Utah crim defense lawyer and this came up. Apparently, their statutory speedy timeline trial tis significantly faster than the federal timeline. I think he said it was 30-days. But, he said a capital case like this one is never going to trial before a year, minimally. He used the current example of Kouri Richins, the woman accused of killing her husband by poison. She was arrested in the spring of 2023. Her trial isn’t scheduled until February 2026.
Pretty ridiculous
Waiting for the assassin to be granted “victim” status. Fact is he is just a victim of himself.
As far as I can tell, so far he’s only facing state charges in Utah, not anything federal. I confess I’m surprised that the feds haven’t hit him with domestic terrorism, but IANAL. Can any lawyers here weigh in on that?
the goal is to get him to court before trump leaves office as the left will change his charges to involuntary manslaughter
but the goal is to have the pos receive the death penalty by firing squad
as an eye-for-an eye is to be played out with him getting a shot to the neck
btw..lefty hero and terrorist lugi m is not a terrorist according to ny judge