Tyler Robinson Faces Trial in Charlie Kirk Killing at 48,600-Student Utah Valley University
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 11
Tyler Robinson Faces Trial in Charlie Kirk Killing at 48,600-Student Utah Valley University
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 11
Summary
Hearings began this week on whether 23-year-old Tyler Robinson will stand trial for assassinating Charlie Kirk at a crowded September event at Utah Valley University.
Prosecutors say Robinson fired from a student-center rooftop about 400 feet from the sunken plaza where Kirk was speaking, using his grandfather’s bolt-action rifle.
Utah Valley University, a 48,600-student campus in Orem, has since become a steady pilgrimage site, drawing mourners, livestreamers and conspiracy theorists to the killing scene.
That attention has left the university weighing how to commemorate the assassination without letting the campus be defined by it; temporary memorials are gone and the area has been redesigned with pavers and flower planters.