I knew Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooter – he was unusual but no one thought he could do it

Tyler Robinson has been arrested for the alleged murder of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, September 10, and now one of the suspect’s former coworkers has spoken out. Charlie Kirk was debating a student when someone shot him in the neck at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University. He died shortly after in the hospital.

A former colleague who worked alongside Robinson in 2023 said that the suspect typically kept to himself on the job, except when guns were discussed. Robinson worked as a first-year electrician in St. George, Utah, wiring a new block of flats.

“Right after Black Friday, I had just got done working and I was showing my supervisor the new pistol I bought,” the former coworker told The New York Post. “We were out by the trucks, and then Tyler and another guy came over and we were all talking about what kinds of guns we were gonna get or had bought, and they started talking about their longest shots. Tyler said he made a 450-yard shot.”

The man said that was “like the only time we got [Robinson] to conversate with us, when we were talking about guns that day. He got excited about it, at least, as excited as he can get. And he never really showed much emotion, he was just kind of, I don’t know, blank? He was just really quiet.”

Robinson worked for High Output Electric on the project, contracted through another company, Wilde Electric. The owner of High Output Electric said Robinson worked there until late 2023 but “couldn’t recall whether he quit or was let go.”

‘He was the last person I thought would do this’

via Utah Governor’s Office

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The coworker said Robinson’s arrest shocked him. “I was like, ‘It can’t be that Tyler,’” he explained. “So I called my old coworker at Wilde Electric and I was like, ‘Hey, did Tyler show up to work today?’ He was like, no, he was supposed to but maybe he’s at a different site. And I was like, ‘Dude, I think Tyler was the one who did the shooting.’ And he didn’t believe me.”

He added, “He was the last person I thought would do this. When I heard that the suspect was a young guy from St. George, there were hundreds of other people that I thought would be capable of it before him.”

The man also recalled Robinson’s unusual mannerisms. “Tyler walked around with clenched fists all the time, like, super hard clenched fists. I remember making a joke to him one time when he had his fists like that, I was like, ‘Are you angry, Tyler?’ And he was like, ‘That’s just what I do.’ He was always soft-spoken but his fists were always like that. Even in the security footage from UVU, you can see he’s got his fists clenched tight.”

Utah Governor Spencer Cox has called Kirk’s murder a targeted “political assassination.” But Robinson’s former colleague said the suspect avoided talking about politics on site. He said, “I remember one time we were talking about [politics] in one of the units, and instead of sitting in the room with us, Tyler went into the back laundry room and sat on a bucket and I think put an earbud in.”

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