Everything we know about Charlie Kirk 'assassin' Tyler Robinson's parents Matt and Amber

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15092365/Tyler-Robinson-Matt-Amber-Charlie-Kirk-parents-Utah.html

The parents of Charlie Kirk's suspected assassin Tyler Robinson are a law enforcement veteran and a care worker.

Police sources identified Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah resident, as the main suspect in the assassination of the conservative activist.

Robinson was taken into custody on Thursday night in southern Utah after having allegedly confessed to his father, Matt Robinson.

Matt then contacted authorities and secured his son before he could be taken into custody.

Robinson was a student at Utah State University on a scholarship, insiders confirmed to Daily Mail.

His mother, Amber Robinson, works for Intermountain Support Coordination Services, a company contracted by the state of Utah to help disabled people receive care.

The family's social media show Robinson, who has two younger brothers, enjoying vacations and sharing smiling selfies, including some celebrating the alleged killer getting into college.

He lives in a $600,000 six-bedroom home in Washington, Utah - about 260 miles south of Kirk's assassination in Orem.

One image from Robinson's mother's social media from 2017, shows him wearing a Donald Trump costume for Halloween.
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He also posed with guns in his childhood, which included a M2 Browning 50. caliber gun.

Officials have yet to confirm a motive to the assassination. Authorities said at a press conference on Thursday night that Robinson will face the death penalty if convicted.

Trump announced the arrest in an appearance on Fox News, where he said that 'someone very close' to the suspect turned him in.

[democratsruletheday]

1. wore a Trump costume for Halloween eh?

alllllllllllrighty then.

[newdeal2]

4. I saw a photo, it was weird

Seemed like he was riding a mini goblin Trump or something. Not sure what it means.

[SergeStorms]

44. I had a Frankenstein costume when I was young.

I know..........same-same. 😉.

[Dave Bowman]

53. Ah, so he was dressed as a clown then?

[Captain Zero]

2. Hope someone got a screen grab

Of the Halloween Costume.

[ananda]

33. Here it is at The Daily Mail.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15092455/Trump-costume-Charlie-Kirk-assassin-Tyler-Robinson.html

[edbermac]

35. Here you go

Link to tweet

[SergeStorms]

45. A good ol' religious.....

God-fearing, gun toting, Trumpublican family. What could possibly have gone wrong there? 🤔

[herding cats]

49. I saw some claims on Bluesky that dad's shirt in the first pic is a 3 percenter.

I'm not familiar with their gear enough to say it is for sure or not.

[spanone]

67. ...and not a Drag Queen.

[Aristus]

3. When I wanted to pose with an M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun, I joined the Army.

Another putrid, service-averse gun nut.

We called it the "Ma Deuce". IYKYK.

[JI7]

5. Gun Culture

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6. Meanwhile, Matt Robinson, a registered Republican voter, reportedly contacted the authorities... nt

[obamanut2012]

10. What does his voter registration have to do with it?

[maxsolomon]

14. At the least, it shows Tyler Robinson was raised in a Republican household?

It's just more pieces of the puzzle.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Careful, Democrats have been raised in Republicon households and vice versa

DU members post not infrequently about "my maga brother" or "my maga father".

[maxsolomon]

21. True. I'm not saying it is conclusive of anything.

99.9% sure the family is Mormon, too, but nothing says that's relevant to the kid's motivation, either. He could easily be rejecting his upbringing, just like Stephen Miller rejects his.

[niyad]

38. At 22, he is not a "kid", but an adult. This is the reverse of calling females under 18

women, with malicious intent, but calling males over 18 "kids", or "boys", to excuse their heinous acts, the menendez boys being but one example.

Language and framing are important.

[maxsolomon]

39. OK.

Thanks for the notes.

[niyad]

42. You are most welcome.

[Exp]

19. What do you think?!?! Trumpers now cannot label him as being raised a Democrat! I mean, isn't that f'n obvious??

[JHB]

31. When have pesky, inconvenient facts ever stopped them?

[SergeStorms]

46. When facts don't support your preferred narrative.....

just make shit up, as usual.
And don't expect any sort of apology from Krasnov and his cult for pre-blaming everything on Democrats. Apologizing is a sign of weakness......or is it good breeding? 🤔 I can't remember which.

[yardwork]

7. The Daily Mail is a right-wing tabloid.

Be careful of anything they report.

[maxsolomon]

15. Meh, most of this is probably accurate.

What do you find suspicious?

[yardwork]

17. I don't have any information one way or the other.

But I'm highly suspicious of the Daily Mail as a source.

[LeftInTX]

23. They have pictures and tabloid. Yes, they're right wing. But they're more tabloid.

They're pretty good with true crime, although they sometimes get their US facts wrong.

[Exp]

18. Agree, but this piece appeared accueate. Thanks though. nt

[yardwork]

20. It might be accurate but look for whitewashing.

It may put a slight spin on things to make the story more right wing friendly.

There is a lot of misinformation being spread for right wing advantages.

[JHB]

32. They're certainly gernerous in describing CK as a "conservative activist"

But then, "conservative" has been the polite term for Right Winger for at least a century.

[kerouac2]

8. Maga poster child?

Bomb threats, etc to dnc and HBCU's , calls for libs to be rounded up and worse, announcing antifa and trans etchings on ammo...

And In the end it's a white kid from affluent, republican, religious/Christian family who posed with guns like Christmas boebert and dressed like trump for Halloween.

They already stirred up the hate and kicked it up a notch and will likely continue even worse despite who the shooter was.

And btw the kid who shot up the school was radicalized by a white supremacy group, which I'm sure also supports trump and his thugs. A 16 year old kid, very sad.

Every day the right does more wrong and harm than one can even grasp. And they get away with it. 42% trump approval with 9/10 repub approval.
W.t.f.

[Feel Good Inc]

11. He didn't dress like Trump.

His costume was him riding something that looks like Trump. It was very similar to this costume:

[kerouac2]

26. thx

He burned about $50 on that thing...

[malaise]

12. THIS

And In the end it's a white kid from affluent, republican, religious/Christian family who posed with guns like Christmas boebert and dressed like trump for Halloween.

[roamer65]

9. Color me shocked. A flying monkey right ammosexual.

[maxsolomon]

13. I'll surmise the family is Mormon since they live in a "suburb" of St. George.

That is a bit of a surprise to me, TBH.

What does "he secured his son" mean? He locked him up in the house?

[haele]

30. He got a lawyer.

He probably also called the local police and the Bishop to keep things low-key so there wouldn't be a press mob or over-excited Federal police and officials during the taking into custody.

[exboyfil]

55. Might have put cuffs on him

To prevent them coming in and mandhandling or even shooting him.

[NJCher]

48. something like that

when I read it I imagined a father who didn't want the kid heading off to the woods and requiring a search to track down. Good way to get your kid killed.

[Midnight Writer]

22. A cop and a social worker have a $600,000 house? Is that typical?

[yardwork]

25. I paused at that too.

Did the house sell for that or is it just worth that now? Housing prices have skyrocketed in recent years. Maybe they bought it for much less? Maybe they had the down payment from an inheritance?

[Irish_Dem]

27. I wondered about this as well. Pricy house for a cop?

[popsdenver]

52. Hey I_D

you might be surprised at what cops and fire are paid, especially counting Over time......and their benefits also........

Professional (paid) Firefighters, working basically two 24 hour shifts a week, and many times have a separate career on the side on their days off......
(obviously not true of Volunteer Fire and medical first responders)

[Irish_Dem]

56. Yes I know a couple of firefighters and they make great money.

Of course I would not want to go into burning buildings so all the power to them.

[popsdenver]

58. A cops job

is 100 times more dangerous, in my opinion........And both the cops and fire are paid the same........????????????????????

[Irish_Dem]

59. Not everyone wants to work the firefighter's odd hours.

And they are a very different personality from police officers.

[BaronChocula]

54. That's what really stuck out to me

and the only thing I'd comment on at this point. It's soooooooo early in the investigation. So much we still don't know.

[Irish_Dem]

57. Well we were right about our speculations here.

The shooter was a great shot, but he had a lot of luck.
And he was a rank amateur.
Left the gun with prints and video evidence.

[TheJillMill]

37. My Son is in Utah...

... working for the VA as a civilian (transferred 3 years ago). He said that prices on apartments and homes skyrocketed just before he got there (probably red refugees from Oregon and Cali brought prices up). He and his partner pay far too much for an apartment compared to other places and hope to transfer to a northern state where prices would be about half what he and she are paying now.

[PCB66]

24. Raised in a Conservative home

but is Progressive.

My younger son was raised in a Progressive home but is a MAGA Conservative. My older son is a Liberal.

Things like that happen.

[Justice matters.]

40. Outright fascist miller's parents were Dems. Many teens dislike their parents.

Don't want to be like them. It's pretty much common teen psychology.

The common ground in that case was he grew up in a gun-culture religious family...

[SheilaAnn]

66. Wow! Same as me, my eldest a Liberal Democrat and the younger one (17 mths. diff in ages) turned out to be a trumper. Go

figure.

[Irish_Dem]

28. If the parents had made different choices, their child would not be going to prison for life.

Or facing the death penalty.

[Tree Lady]

62. Just looking at those pics of him

At young age with guns, the smiling was creepy knowing what he did with his gun skills.

[Irish_Dem]

64. So sad what they did to their child.

[Heidi]

29. Most of us grew up with *much* less privelige. I dunno. Maybe

it’s THE GUNS coupled with benign neglect?

[NoMoreRepugs]

34. Wouldn't "alleged shooter" be more accurate than assassin? The Right has mastered messaging for the Deplorable masses.

[NJCher]

50. I don't know if I'd call that "mastered messaging"

as much as living in their dream world and imposing incorrect usage of words on the other 70% of the population.

They make up terms that are grandiose for the situation and think the rest of us are going to buy into it.

Meanwhile, just a wet dream for them because most of us see it for what it is.

[Botany]

36. Nothing says family values more than letting your children pose with guns.

“He also posed with guns in his childhood, which included a M2 Browning 50. caliber gun.”

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I am still waiting for Trump to call in the National Guard and ICE agents to Utah to stop, arrest,
and take into custody Utah’s white republicans who own guns and send them to El Salvador and
or Rwanda or Sudan or Ghana without a trial.

[IronLionZion]

41. Are they still claiming he's liberal?

Because it looks like he's gone to great lengths to hide any evidence of liberalism.

[neohippie]

43. I guess this can be confirmed somehow

Not sure if this is accurate but I guess there has got to be a way to verify it

link is an image of what appears to be a contribution from Tyler Robinson to Trump's 2020 campaign

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:xy5et7tjp2m5vcse6ky23v2x/bafkreihue5slcfxfdwnymmwr3v322i2ramqwk3zw3eqelbuvoqrnrl6efy@jpeg

[Wicked Blue]

47. $224.48 to be exact

That's a pretty sizeable donation for a 17-year-old.

[crimycarny]

51. Bottom line is this toxic world we live in is damaging all of us

This may not be a popular view, but as the parent of a child who ended his life (at 25), I hear of these mass shooters, and I can't help but feel a big part of this is our toxic world today.

This world has become one where the number of "followers" you have is regarded more highly than simply being a good person who lives a simple life.

My son was an overly empathetic, kind soul who had no armour against this toxicity. He absorbed it all and turned it inward. On the outside, he made people laugh and loved to laugh himself, but on the inside, he felt inadequate, a failure, and a burden to the world. My son turned all the anger in this world inward; some of these mass shooters are turning it outward.

I'm not making excuses for any of the mass shooters, I just feel our current society exacerbates this.

[delisen]

61. I am sorry. The loss of your son is a loss for us all.

I agree with you. The kind, caring, loving people are those we need the most to be able to build a civilized society.

[drmeow]

60. To be fair

in 2016 my nephew said on Halloween he wanted to go as the scariest costume he could think of - Donald Trump as president! Granted, this was before the 2016 election ... after the reality of the first year of the first Trump admin, I'm not sure if he would have been as interested in the costume. But going as Trump for Halloween doesn't necessarily mean anything.

[wishstar]

63. The dad runs a construction company, he was not a Sheriff's deputy, that was misinformation

The Sheriff's dept issued a statement clarifying that their long term deputy is not the same Matt Robinson who is father of Tyler and that it is misinformation that has been spread.

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65. From Newsweek - I stand corrected. There are multiple people with the same names," the attorney's office said

What To Know

Matt Robinson is a registered Republican, according to public records reviewed by Newsweek. Early reports indicated that he was a veteran of the Washington County Sheriff's Office, but the Washington County Attorney's office said that reporting was not accurate and that Robinson does not have ties to local law enforcement.

"The individual arrested is NOT related to Washington County law enforcement! There are multiple people with the same names," the attorney's office said in a statement posted to Facebook.