Kirk’s shooter, Tyler Robinson, has apparently turned himself in, apparently after confessing to his own father (?)

I’ve tried to capture the relevant bits of this extremely rapidly updating and currently in progress series of events.

9 a.m. EDT

While appearing on Fox and Friends, Trump said “I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him in custody.”

Trump said authorities acted after receiving a tip from a minister who recognized the suspect from the images released by law enforcement.

The president said he believed the suspect’s father was also involved in arrest, but added that this information was still preliminary and the details could change.

9:15 a.m. EDT

Trump said he would attend a funeral next week for Kirk, “who should not be having a funeral right now,” when asked about his scheduled trip to the U.K. from Sept. 16-18.

9:30 a.m. EDT

The suspect was identified as Tyler Robinson, 22, from Utah, according to multiple reports citing people with knowledge of the investigation.

10:10 a.m. EDT

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox confirmed in a press conference Friday morning that a suspect named Tyler Robinson has been detained.

Apologies for this being a paywalled Forbes article.

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    14 hours ago

    Lol.

    The cucks over at /r/cuckservative started celebrating in a post when reports that the suspect was caught started coming in. Now that we know it was a law enforcement officer’s kid raised in a MAGA family they’re cannibalizing each other and there’s a shit ton of deleted comments and crybabies refusing to accept reality, per usual.

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      13 hours ago

      Sorry I am now almost 3 years clean from reddit, you mean /r/conservative, or is there an actual /r/cuckservative, which is funny because of double meta irony or something?

      Either way, screencaps would be appreciated =D

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        Pretty sure they’re just referring to conservative, but man there really should be a cuckservative community.

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          11 hours ago

          I think there is a ‘conservative’ comm somewhere on lemmy… it was apparently orginally run genuienly… and then the mod quit… and then I think somebody else ‘adopted’ it… and then ran it as a parody.

          Onr could say interest in the community seems pretty dead, lost its lifeblood.