The suspect in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has been charged with aggravated murder and felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray announced Tuesday.  

Gray will seek the death penalty for shooting suspect Tyler Robinson.  

“I am filing a notice of intent to seek the death penalty,” Gray said at a press conference. “I do not take this decision lightly, and it is a decision I have made independently as county attorney, based solely on the available evidence and circumstances and nature of the crime,” Gray added.  

Robinson is being held in Utah County Jail without bail and will remain there, Gray said.  

Kirk, a husband and the father of two young children, was fatally shot last Wednesday while speaking on behalf of Turning Point USA, a group he founded, at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem.   

Authorities took Robinson into custody Friday after a 33-hour manhunt involving local and federal law enforcement.  

“The murder of Charlie Kirk is an American tragedy,” Gray said, adding that the “senseless and needless taking of Charlie Kirk’s life has shattered the lives of those he loved and those who loved him.”   

In addition to aggravated murder and firearm charges, Robinson has been charged with “obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony, for moving and concealing the rifle used in the shooting, … obstruction of justice … for disposing the clothing he wore during the shooting.”  

Robinson has also been charged with two counts of witness tampering, and conducting “a violent offense in the presence of a child, a Class A misdemeanor for committing homicide, knowing that children were present and may have seen or heard the murder and did so based on Charlie Kirk’s political expression,” he said.  

Gray was flanked by the prosecutors who will be handling the case.  

Gray stressed that the Robinson will receive a fair trial, stating it “bears reiterating that this case will be tried in a court of law consistent with our Constitution, not the court of public opinion.” To that end, Gray says he and his team “will only … discuss the case with the press occasionally.”

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