(Washington) How Tyler Robinson, a brilliant pupil, raised in the Faith Mormone by Republican parents, could he have derived to the point of killing the influencer Charlie Kirk, an idol of pro-Trump youth? The question agitated Washington, a small town in Utah.
The 22 -year -old suspect, arrested Thursday evening after 33 hours of hunting, grew up in this Western American village lined with glowing canyons and mountains.
Photo Utah Department of Public Safety, via Reuters
Tyler Robinson
His parents’ house is a typical American class pavilion, housed in a winding street with clean lawns. In this neighborhood backed by the local church, Kris Schwiermann is in shock.
Tyler was the eldest of three boys, a child “calm, respectful, rather reserved, but really very intelligent”, tells AFP the ex-Garden of his primary school, now retired.
“It was the ideal student, the kind of person we would like to have in his class,” confirms Jaida Funk, who rubbed shoulders with elementary school in high school, between his 5 and 16 years.
“I have always thought that he would one day become a businessman or CEO, rather than what I learn about it today,” continues the 22 -year -old woman. “It’s really unexpected. »»
At school, “he was reserved, but not weird, he had friends and spoke to different groups,” she recalls.
Brilliantly out of the school in 2021, Tyler briefly studied at the university, before branching off to an electricity learning program in a technical establishment near his home.
Parents Hunters
His parents, a seller of granite kitchen counters and a health professional working with disabled, are Mormons like many residents in UTAH, according to Mme Schwiermann. But they no longer practice.
“I haven’t seen them in church for eight years,” said the 66 -year -old retiree.
Peeled by the American media, the photos left by the Robinson on social networks tell the story of a family who liked to travel, camp and hunt with his children.
A banal learning of firearms, which Tyler would have recycled in a freezing way, killing Charlie Kirk with a bullet in the neck thanks to a bezel rifle, during a gathering on the campus of Utah Valley University, four hours by road from Washington.
If his parents are registered on the electoral lists as Republicans, the young man has indicated no political affiliation to him. According to the state registers, he did not vote in 2024.
But according to the governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, who disclosed certain elements of investigation on Friday, the young man had “more politicized in recent years”.
He would have shared his hostility towards Charlie Kirk, a close ally of President Donald Trump, with a family member, according to the authorities. His father would have convinced him to go to the police.
Investigators also found messages with an anti -fascist tone – “fascist and fascist!” Catch that! »And a reference to Italian anti -fascist song Bella Ciao –Sur of the sockets found near the crime scene.
What label it as a “far left” killer for a large part of the American right.
Experts cited by the New York Times However, believe that it is difficult to clearly associate an ideology with the suspect, seeing an amalgam of references to video games and various web subcultures in messages registered on ammunition.
The song Bella Ciaofor example, would have already appeared in a Spotify reading list intended for “Groypers”, as are nicknamed the followers of the far -right activist Nick Fuentes.
Other symbols that appear on ammunition could also be associated with this movement, said Rachel Kleinfeld, senior Fellow in Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in a reuters interview.
“It is an eclectic ideological movement marked by memes linked to video games, homophobia, the white supremacism of Nick Fuentes, irony,” Kleinfeld told the news agency.
According to Vanity Fair, references to the Helldivers 2 game and the “Furry” community would also mix with the messages registered on the ammunition, adding to the confusion.
“Bagnoles passionate”
Rather than a fervent activist, his ex-high school camarades portrayed him at New York Times as a fan of shooting video games, like Halo Or Call of Duty.
Tyler did not speak political either with Jay, who had frequented him since January after joining a group of lovers of large cars.
“He was rather shy, it was just a car enthusiast,” breathes this perplexed forty, refusing to give his surname. “We just talked about our love for” muscle cars “, the noise they make and how they roll. »»
His gray and shiny dodge challenger was the only thing that the neighbors of Tyler Robinson knew of him, in the subdivision where he lived in Saint George, ten minutes from his parents.
In this impersonal complex, the inhabitants encountered by AFP did not even recognize it when the FBI broadcast its photo during the hunt.
Heather McKnight, his neighbor for more than a year, evokes a lonely unknown, with the scowl, who was driving too quickly to his taste.
“He was always distant, he never said hello. (…) He was just weird, ”says the 50 -year -old nurse. “Who could have imagined that this skinny little man who rose and descended from his car would be able to commit such odious act?” »»
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