Suspect in the murder of Charlie Kirk linked to the scene by DNA, the leader of the FBI says | Crime News

DNA evidence links the suspect to the assassination of the American activist Charlie Kirk last week at crime, said FBI director.

The DNA of a towel and a screwdriver delivered on the crime scene, both games Tyler Robinson, said FBI director Kash Patel on Monday.

Robinson, 22, was arrested by police on Thursday after a 33 -hour man hunt for the killer.

“I can point out today that DNA strikes the towel that has been wrapped around the firearm and that DNA on the screwdriver is treated positively for the suspect in detention,” said Patel in an interview on Fox & Friends of Fox News.

Patel said Robinson also expressed his desire to “withdraw” Kirk in an exchange of text with another person, and had written a note detailing his plans to commit crime.

Patel said that the note had been destroyed, but the investigators recovered forensic evidence of his existence at the home of Robinson and his romantic partner, who, according to the prosecutors, had cooperated in the investigation.

“We have evidence to show what was in this note, what is … by making say …” I have the opportunity to get Charlie Kirk out, and I will take it “”, he said.

Kirk, CEO and co -founder of the Youth Conservative Organization of young Turning Point USA and a close ally of US President Donald Trump, was killed last Wednesday during a speaking event in a UTAH university.

The murder of Kirk, a polarizing figure that was lionized by the conservatives and insulted by the liberals, provoked condemnation through the political spectrum, while drawing attention to profound political divisions in the United States and fearing new political violence.

The murder has also caused calls to reprisals among political law, notably Trump, who promised to use the power of the federal government to repress left networks which, according to him, stimulate violence.

Trump said on Monday that his administration was planning to bring racketeering accusations against left -wing groups suspected of finance agitators and favored the designation of the Leda anti -fascist group as a domestic terrorists.

In an appearance as guest host of the Kirk podcast, vice-president JD Vance launched his support for an online campaign to bring people who celebrated Kirk’s death, urging listeners to “call them” and “call their employer”.

Many United States employees have been dismissed or put on leave on its comments on social networks on the death of Kirk, who have not all celebrated or justified assassination.

Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah said on Monday that she was dismissed on her publications on social networks on Kirk.

In a chronicle on Sublack, Attiah said that she had been dismissed to “express himself against political violence, the double racial standard and the apathy of America towards firearms”.

Attiah has included a number of previous messages on political violence in its column, only one of which has mentioned Kirk specifically.

This position has missed Kirk saying that black women “do not have the power of brain treatment to take seriously”.

Kirk’s real comments specifically refer to the intelligence of four black women, including former First Lady Michelle Obama and Supreme Court Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Trump’s commitment to suppress what he says is left out extremism has raised fears that his administration could seek to use the kirk murder as a pretext to stifle legitimate dissent.

Responding to an assertion of Vance that “most madmen” of American policy resident in the far left, the Democratic legislator Greg Casar accused the Trump administration of arms on concerns about political violence against its opponents.

“He cannot be authorized to use the horrible murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to go after a peaceful political opposition,” Casar, who represents a Texas district, told the American House of Representatives, in a press release.

Acts of high -level political violence have targeted personalities on the left and the right of American policy in recent years.

They include the murder of a legislator from the Democratic State and her husband in Minnesota in June, two assassination attempts on Trump during the 2024 presidential campaign and a hammer attack in 2022 against the husband of the former Democratic president of the Nancy Pelosi Chamber.

Experts say that attacks and threats to political motivation are up in the United States.

According to the Bridging Divide initiative, more than 250 threat and harassment incidents against local officials were reported in the first half of 2025, an increase of 9% compared to the previous year.

While little information has been disclosed in connection with Robinson’s alleged reason so far, Patel said on Monday a previous assertion of the Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, that the suspect adopted leftist opinions.

“His family has collectively told investigators that he had subscribed to the left -wing ideology, and even more in the past two years,” said Patel.