suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk<\/a> has been charged with aggravated murder. Twenty-two-year-old Tyler Robinson was charged with six additional counts including tampering with a witness and obstruction of justice. Now that the legal proceedings are beginning, many of Kirk’s supporters are still processing their grief.\u00a0<\/p>\nPastor Heath Lambert of First Baptist Jacksonville says that several of his parishioners were upset when the news first broke.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“When you walked into this place, it the air was gone,” said Lambert. “But that was not the extent of the grief. I mean it was a multi-generational people just people couldn’t talk people were crying.”<\/p>\n
As vigils continue to take place all over the country, people all over all also grappling with their feelings about what happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“One of the realities that is causing this to be such a difficult and tumultuous time is it’s tapping into basic realities of what it means to be a human being,” said Lambert. “And one of those basic realities is we all want and we all need justice when a man gets publicly executed for speaking\u201d<\/p>\n
Law enforcement has released a 10-page indictment, providing a closer look at the evidence they have on Robinson, including what they say is DNA evidence found on bullet casings and text messages between him and his roommate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The evidence is powerful,” said legal expert and attorney Curtis Fallgatter. “You’ve got DNA on the trigger on the bullets. Uh, his parents identified him. He’s got a unique shirt on. They’ve got their surveillance with him running. His roommate has text messages where he’s confessed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fallgatter says, between the evidence and the charges, the case could come down to the death penalty.<\/p>\n
“If they want death, it’s the kind of case where they typically get it unless there’s sufficient mental health defenses,” said Fallgatter. “So it’s a very aggravated case. He thought about it, planned for it, and, uh, and of course other folks could have been injured.\u201d<\/p>\n
However many of Kirk’s supporters say they just want to see justice served.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We cannot exist as a civilization if you get to be killed because somebody doesn’t like what you say,” says Lambert. “And that is unjust and I do believe that people need to see justice.\u201d<\/p>\n
First Baptist Church Jacksonville is partnering with Turning Point USA to stream Charlie Kirk’s services on Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. It is open to the public. Afterwards, Pastor Lambert will host a Q&A for anyone who needs to talk.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pastor Heath Lambert says people are still grieving and deserve to see justice. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The suspect…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":233132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-233131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233131","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=233131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}