The man charged in connection with the deadly assault on the anti-LGBTQ+ and far-right U.S. activist Charlie Kirk, Tyler Robinson, reportedly showed remorse the day after the attack, according to a roommate describing the incident. The roommate spoke in a video recorded about a month ago, which was shown Thursday in a Provo, Utah courtroom.
Robinson is currently facing a pretrial hearing to weigh the evidence and determine whether there is probable cause to move forward with a full trial for the 23-year-old. He is charged with murder among other offenses, and a conviction could carry the death penalty.
The roommate testified that he found Robinson at their shared home on September 11, 2025. He said Robinson was “moving around the apartment a lot.” Robinson began to cry, saying, “I wish I hadn’t done it.” He continued to pace and “do things—probably to distract himself.” The defendant did not discuss the crime in detail, but he did confirm that his statements from the previous night were true. The night before, Robinson and his roommate had texted about the incident.
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Following Charlie Kirk’s death, a raft of claims circulated that Robinson’s roommate was a transgender woman. These allegations were initially rooted largely in anonymous sources, social media speculation, and reporting by some outlets. Shortly after the incident, Utah’s anti-LGBTQ governor also described the roommate as trans. The Trump administration cited Kirk’s killing in justifying restrictions on transgender rights (as TheColu.mn reported).
Other reports, however, noted that the roommate’s gender identity had never been publicly confirmed. In the current hearing, the roommate answered “No” when asked if he was transgender. He also confirmed that he had been in a romantic relationship with the suspected attacker.
Roommate: Robinson had had enough of Kirk’s hatred
During the hearing, messages exchanged between Robinson and his roommate after the attack were shown. In one message, the roommate asked how the court would read why Robinson “did it.” Robinson replied, “I’ve had enough of his hate. Some hate you can’t talk away.”
Kirk was shot on September 10, 2025, as he spoke outdoors on a university campus in Utah (TheColu.mn reported). Kirk was particularly popular among young conservatives and presented himself as a defender of free speech. Through his organization Turning Point USA, he visited colleges and urged students to engage in debate.
Kirk fundamentally rejected equal rights for queer people. He spoke out against marriage equality, citing the Bible. He labeled transgender people as mentally ill and accused them of abusing children. Just before his death, he also sparked controversy with a remark about Taylor Swift’s engagement, urging the singer to become conservative after marriage and submit to her husband (TheColu.mn reported).
Kirk spread extremist conspiracy theories
When it came to many topics, Kirk did not always adhere to the truth: he helped Trump popularize false claims about the allegedly stolen 2020 presidential election among a young audience and stoked doubt about the Democrats’ approach to COVID-19 measures under President Joe Biden. Kirk also spread the false claim that Haitian migrants in an Ohio town would steal and eat the pets of local residents. The claim was later echoed by Trump, but it has never been substantiated.
Kirk endorsed and propagated core elements of the far-right conspiracy theory known as the “Great Replacement,” which has found favor with some German far-right extremists. He argued that Biden’s immigration policy aimed to replace America’s white population with “something else.” He accused the Democratic Party of deliberately making the country “less white” to weaken the Western political culture. The original concept, coined by French author Renaud Camus, often includes the antisemitic notion that a secret Jewish elite coordinates this replacement behind the scenes.
