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Charlie Kirk shooting suspect arrested, says Trump: ‘We have him in custody’
US president makes remark in interview with Fox & Friends as FBI faces scrutiny for its response to shooting
Donald Trump said on Friday morning that it was his understanding that a suspect has been arrested for the fatal shooting of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk on Wednesday at an event Utah Valley University.
The US president in a TV interview on Friday morning said he had been informed moments before going on air of an arrest.
“I think with a high degree of certainty we have him in custody,” Trump said in a live studio interview with the Fox & Friends morning program.
The intense hunt for Kirk’s killer had entered day three, as the FBI faced scrutiny for its response to the attack and officials had pleaded with the public for help.
More details were awaited after Trump’s surprise announcement just after 8am ET.
More than 24 hours after Kirk was shot while speaking in front of thousands of people at a Utah university, the state’s governor, appearing alongside FBI director Kash Patel and other officials, had said “we need as much help as we can possibly get.”
Patel and the FBI deputy director, Dan Bongino, had chewed out FBI agents on a Thursday conference call, according to the New York Times. This followed Patel himself fumbling early announcements in the case, saying on social media on Wednesday that “the subject for the horrific shooting today that took the life of Charlie Kirk is now in custody” – before that unnamed person was released hours later without charges and the urgent search for the actual perpetrator resumed.
Investigators and the public had been poring over newly released video showed a person wearing a hat, sunglasses and a long sleeve black shirt running across a roof, climbing off the edge of the building and dropping to the ground. The suspect is believed to have fled into the local neighbourhood after firing the one shot and has not yet been identified.
It was unclear on Friday morning if this was the person whom the president said had been apprehended.
Investigators had said they had obtained clues, including a palm print, a shoe impression and a high-powered hunting rifle found in a wooded area along the path the shooter fled. But they had not named a suspect or cited a motive in the killing.
The first two announced and named suspects in custody turned out to be duds.
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