Utah Governor Spencer Cox said Friday that while he was grateful authorities had quickly identified and arrested a suspect in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, he had prayed that the killer would not turn out to be from Utah.
"For 33 hours, I was praying that if this had to happen here that it wouldn't be one of us — that somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country," Cox said during a press conference in which he announced that Tyler Robinson had been taken into custody for Charlie Kirk's assassination. "Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for — just because I thought it would make it easier on us, if we could just say, 'Hey, we don't do that here.' But it did happen here, and it was one of us."
