{"id":221523,"date":"2025-09-12T18:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221523\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T18:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:21:12","slug":"tyler-robinson-was-raised-mormon-and-allegedly-killed-charlie-kirk-moments-after-he-praised-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221523\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Robinson was raised Mormon \u2014 and allegedly killed Charlie Kirk moments after he praised the church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Utah \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/12\/us-news\/alleged-charlie-kirk-assassin-tyler-robinson-threatened-to-kill-himself-rather-than-surrender-after-being-confronted-by-dad-sources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlie Kirk\u2019s alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson<\/a>, was raised Mormon, yet fired his fatal shot just moments after the conservative influencer had spoken in glowing praise of the Church of LDS.<\/p>\n<p>Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson was reportedly raised Mormon by his family. amber.j.robinson\/facebook<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/12\/us-news\/charlie-kirk-shot-suspect-tyler-robinson-in-custody-live-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow The Post\u2019s live coverage of the Charlie Kirk shooting for the latest news and updates<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Footage from Kirk\u2019s final event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday shows him bantering with a member of the Mormon faith in the crowd, referring to him as the \u201cguy in the shirt and tie at the front here,\u201d before going on to speak of his love for the church.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Kirk stated, \u201cI love how Mormons send missionaries around the world, I love how polite they are,\u201d moments before Tyler Robinson fired the fatal shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love how Mormons send missionaries around the world, I love how polite they are. \u2026 Half my team is Mormon,\u201d he said, to huge cheers from the Utah crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date on the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMormons are great people. Let me just say, I\u2019m an evangelical Christian, but I\u2019m not one of those guys that hates on Mormons,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd reacts after Charlie Kirk is shot during Turning Point\u2019s visit to Utah Valley University. AP<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Robinson was arrested early Friday after being turned in by his retired cop father. AP<\/p>\n<p>Kirk\u2019s words came just minutes before he was shot and killed \u2014 allegedly by Robinson, whose neighbor said he attended the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in St. George, Utah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe went to our church when he was younger,\u201d a neighbor told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk\u2019s grandmother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15092645\/grandma-tyler-robinson-innocent-Charlie-Kirk-assassination.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the Daily Mail<\/a> she was confused over the vicious slaying \u2014 because her grandson never spoke about politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy son, his dad, is a Republican for Trump,\u201d she told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Tyler] is the shyest person,\u201d she added. \u201cHe has never, ever spoke politics to me at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of my family members are Republican. I don\u2019t know any single one who\u2019s a Democrat. I\u2019m just so confused.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, Utah \u2014 Charlie Kirk\u2019s alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, was raised Mormon, yet fired his fatal shot just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":221524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,19719,120501,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,3677,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-221523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-charlie-kirk","10":"tag-mormons","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-shootings","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-us-news","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-utah"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115192718209566109","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}