Various outlets, CNN and BBC among them, are reporting that FBI director Kash Patel indicated the alleged assassin left a note in which he confirmed he would seize the opportunity to kill Charlie Kirk.
CNN reported that the note had been “destroyed” but “was recovered by investigators” and they were able to ascertain the message on it.
They noted that Patel indicated that the alleged assassin, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, wrote that he had the “opportunity to take out” Kirk and that he was “going to take it.”
BBC quoted Patel reading the note’s message: “I have the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, and I’m going to take it.”
Breitbart News reported that after Robinson allegedly confessed the assassination to his father, but before he was taken into custody, he used Discord to message friends and say, “It was me.”
The Washington Post quoted Robinson’s message at length, noting that it said, “Hey guys, I have bad news for you all. It was me [at Utah Valley University] yesterday. im sorry for all of this.”
The Post indicated that Robinson sent the message “about two hours before officials said [he] was taken into custody.”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, a member of Gun Owners of America, and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History. Follow him on X: @awrhawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
