USA – The alleged assassin whom investigators say killed Charlie Kirk was obsessed with guns from a young age.
Tyler Robinson (22), was named Friday as the alleged killer who shot Kirk as the conservative influencer held a rally at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.
In social media posts from Robinson’s family obtained by the Daily Mail, Robinson was seen enjoying guns throughout his childhood and appeared to frequently attend shooting ranges.
In one image from when Robinson appeared to be a teenager, he was seen posing with an M2 Browning 50. calibre machine gun, while another showed him posing with a scoped rifle. In a third image, he was holding a bazooka.
Facebook posts from his mother showed Robinson and his two younger brothers at gun ranges and military events.
In one post from Amber Robinson, she was seen proudly holding a US Army machine gun.
At Christmas in 2017, Tyler Robinson was seen holding a new iPhone and his brother held a ‘build it yourself’ rifle kit, as his family wore matching red outfits.
In another image from Robinson’s mother’s social media from that same year, he was seen wearing a Donald Trump costume for Halloween.
On Friday, officials including FBI Director Kash Patel named Robinson as the alleged assassin who shot and killed Kirk with a Mauser 98 bold-action rifle from a rooftop around 200 yards away.
Law enforcement sources told the Daily Mail that Robinson was taken into custody on Thursday night in southern Utah.
He lives in a US$600 000 six-bedroom home in Washington, Utah – about 260 miles south of Kirk’s assassination site in Orem.
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