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New details about the life of the man accused of
killing American activist Charlie Kirk
- The New York Post revealed new details about the life of Tyler Robinson
- accused of killing right-wing American activist Charlie Kirk
- through a former co-worker of the suspect.
Robinson, 22
didn't talk much when he was working as a junior electrician at a new apartment complex in St. George, Utah, in 2023, except when it was about weapons, the 25-year-old co-worker said, requesting anonymity.
Right after Black Friday (price reductions)
I had just finished work and was showing
the supervisor the new gun I had bought," he told the New York Post.
We were out of the trucks
and then Tyler and someone else came over and we all started talking about what kinds of guns we were going to buy or have bought, and they started talking about the longest shots they've ever fired. Tyler said he fired a shot from 450 yards away.
That was the only time
- we had Robinson talk to us, when we were talking about guns that day
- the colleague added. He seemed excited about it
- at least, as excited as he could be.
He wasn't showing much emotion. He was so silent, I don't know... Was it rigid?"
He pointed out that
Robinson was working at the time for High Out Boat Electric
which is based in Washington County. Both were contracted to install wiring in the new apartments over a period of eight months by a third party called Wild Electric, according to the young man, who provided confirmation of his work on the project.
Shane Bennett
owner of High Outbot Electric, said Robinson worked at the company until late 2023, but did not remember whether he "resigned or was fired."
Robinson's boasting returned to
his colleague's mind after news spread that the vocational school student had been arrested for allegedly firing the only fatal bullet at Kirk, 31 years old.
The fatal shot came from
the top of the Lucy Center building at the University of Utah Valley, about 200 yards from where the founder of Turning Point USA was sitting in a makeshift tent, speaking in front of 3,000 people.
"I was shocked when I heard the news yesterday,"
the coworker said.
"I thought, 'This can't be Tyler.' So I called my old colleague at Wild Electric and said, 'Hey, did Tyler come to work today?'"
He said: No
- he was supposed to come
- but he might be in another location.
- I said to him, 'Dude, I think Tyler did the shooting.
"He didn't believe me," he said, adding that his subsequent
call to Robinson went straight to voicemail.
"He was the last person I thought of who could do this"
he added. When I heard the suspect was a young man from St. George
there were hundreds of other people I thought could do it before him.
I remember one time
we were talking about politics in one of the units, and instead of
sitting with us in the room
- Tyler went into the back laundry room and sat on a bucket
- and I think he put on a hearing aid," he continued, noting that
- most of the workers on the job site had "conservative views."
The colleague continued
recalling:
"Tyler was walking with his fists clenched the whole time, like a very hard fist". I remember joking with him once when his fist was like that
and I said,
Are you mad, Tyler?'
'I usually do this, he said.' He always spoke in a calm voice but his fists
were always like this.. Even in surveillance footage from
the University of Utah Valley, you can see his fists clenched tightly."