In a live appearance on Fox News this morning, President Donald Trump announced that a breakthrough arrest has been made in the killing of Charlie Kirk.
Trump stated that authorities have arrested a suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk on a Utah college campus earlier this week.
“With a high degree of certainty, we have him,” Trump announced in a live interview on Fox News this morning.
Trump said a minister also involved with law enforcement turned the suspect, whose name was not immediately known, into authorities,
“Somebody that was very close to him said, ‘Hmm, that’s him,’” Trump said.
“We have the person that we think is the person we’re looking for, but they drove into the police headquarters, and he’s there now,” Trump said.
The FBI and Justice Department did not immediately comment, but a news conference in Utah, where the killing took place on a college campus Wednesday, planned a news conference for later in the morning, according to The Associated Press (AP).
Kirk, a 31-year-old father of two, was sitting under a tent around 12:20 p.m. Wednesday, debating with students on hot-button current affairs issues, when a single shot rang out.
Video from the scene showed him struck in the neck before he slumped out of his chair.
He had been invited to speak at Utah Valley University by the campus chapter of Turning Point USA, a national conservative student group he founded.
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