Friday Update： September 12, 2025
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Summary
After a 33 hour search, Tyler Robinson has been identified, found, and captured. The 22-year-old was taken into custody Friday morning after his father confronted him about the murders of two men in cold blood at an event in Utah Valley University.
Transcript
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Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday, September 12th.
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Happy Friday, folks. After a 33-hour search, Charlie Kirk assassin, Tyler Robinson has been identified, found, and captured.
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The 22-year-old was taken into custody Friday morning after his father confronted him about the murders.
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Charlie Kirk was murdered, of course, in cold blood on Wednesday at an event in Utah Valley University
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after Robinson opened fire on him from an elevated position on the rooftop.
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Robinson's father, a veteran police officer, confronted him after Utah authorities released new photos of the suspect on Thursday.
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The suspect fessed up to the horrific shooting when his dad asked if he pulled the trigger,
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but originally refused to turn himself into law enforcement, according to sources.
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He told his father he would rather kill himself, leading the parents to convince his son to speak with their minister,
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who also happened to be a U.S. Marshal Service's Fugitive Task Force officer.
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The probable cause affidavit that was used to arrest Tyler Robinson has been released.
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He's been arrested on suspicion of capital murder, felony discharge of a weapon, causing serious bodily injury,
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obstruction of justice, according to this probable cause affidavit.
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This man deserves to rot in hell. He is a coward and will rot in hell.
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We thank the parents of this coward, his roommate, who also helped turn him in,
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showing some of the messages that were sent to him via Discord messaging app to the police and to the FBI agents.
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The murder weapon was also found before he was captured in a wooded area wrapped in a towel.
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According to those Discord messages, Robinson had relayed to his roommate that he needed somebody to go retrieve the gun
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Inscriptions were also found on three unfired casings.
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Hey, fascist, catch, with an up arrow, a right arrow, and three down arrows.
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Oh, Bella, chow, Bella, chow, Bella, chow, chow, chow.
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The first one, Hey, fascist, catch, appears to be a reference to Hell Drivers 2.
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The arrows are a sequence of the controller moves that allow the players to drop a bomb.
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The Oh, Bella, chow, Bella, chow, Bella, chow, chow, chow.
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It's an Italian folk song and an anti-fascist resistant anthem.
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AI edits of Trump singing it have been widely shared on social media lately.
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The final one, if you are reading this, you are gay.
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Conspiracy videos accusing President Trump and his allies of being secretly gay
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This just to shed some light on the possibility of what some of these things can have meant
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The good news is, is this coward was brought in alive,
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so we'll be able to get some answers to figure out just why this psychopath,
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this sick individual, committed such a heinous crime.
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President Trump up in New York, he attended the Yankees game last night
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for the 24th anniversary of the 9-11 hijackings that took the lives of just under 3,000 people.
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President Trump stopped by Fox and Friends at Fox News earlier this morning,
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the radicals on the left and the radicals on the right.
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President Trump says it's the radicals on the left that are the real problem.
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People have gotten, are watching all of these videos and cheering.
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Some people are cheering that Charlie was killed.
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Well, I'll tell you something that's going to get me in trouble,
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The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime.
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They're saying, we don't want these people coming in.
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We don't want you burning our shopping centers.
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We don't want you shooting our people in the middle of the street.
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and they're vicious, and they're horrible, and they're politically savvy,
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President Trump also revealing which crime-infested city
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will be the next to receive help from the federal government,
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We're going to fix that just like we did Washington.
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faced the highest violence crime rate among large cities.
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the city recorded just over 185,000 violent crimes
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The average violent crime rate stands at 494 per 100,000 residents,
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which is about 300,000 above the national average.
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I'd say not a good place to live, let alone raise a family.
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