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Ramon Antonio Vargas and Anna Betts

Charlie Kirk shooting suspect had ‘very different ideology’ than conservative family, Utah governor says

hats, flags, balloons, flowers and photos at a memorial site
People mourn after the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at the Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday. Photograph: Thomas Machowicz/Reuters

The Utah governor, Spencer Cox, has said the man suspected of killing Charlie Kirk comes “from a conservative family” but that “his ideology was very different than his family”.

During one of multiple national talkshow appearances Sunday, the Republican governor said Tyler Robinson, 22, was in relationship with a person “transitioning from male to female” and that investigators were continuing to explore a possible motive in the attack.

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