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After the suspected shooter has been detained, the FBI held a press conference to report on the case and announce the next steps going forward. Spoiler: we, as leftists, are fucked.

Key points:

  • The shooter is Tyler Robinson of Utah.
  • His friend reported him to the FBI.
  • Tyler's Discord messages have been used as evidence, as provided by his roommate.
  • ~~Robinson has been reported to be getting increasingly political, and during dinner one day, he spoke about how Kirk was "full of hate".~~ UPDATE 4: Tyler did not say that.
  • The casings do not contain any trans references. But they do have anti-fascist rhetoric (bella ciao and "notices bulges OwO" included) and symbols engraved in them.
  • Tyler was taken into custody on September 11th, 10 PM local time.
  • The investigation is still ongoing.
  • One guy cried while speaking.
  • Thousands of more leads of potential accomplices are being followed.
  • No other arrests are known
  • Tyler drove to campus on a car.
  • It's not known if Tyler is mentally ill.
  • The charging documents will be filed 3 days from now (September 16), then a preliminary hearing will take place.

(Added by LangleyDominos)

  • Patel awkwardly trying to signal the Norse viking larp shit. "Charlie, I'll see you in Valhalla"
  • Utah Governor Cox told everyone to log off and stop consuming rage bait, called social media a cancer, and that everyone should "touch grass" (his actual words).

UPDATES

Tyler Robinson's mugshot

Other sources:

BBC

New York Times

CNN

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[–] SickSemper@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It’s terrible news but I gotta spread it because the groyper theory was convincing me

[–] barrel_of_a_gun@hexbear.net 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

it's an anonymous phone call by a highschool friend, I'm still taking it with a grain of salt, using groyper references still needs to be explained imo

like, i know journalists vet this kind of thing but it wouldnt be very hard for someone who went to the same highschool pretend to be his friend to lie about how close they were or lie about this political views etc.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

there's also every chance this guy was lying to his schoolmates/parents, how many stories are there about someone getting shitcanned because their secret racist posts got exposed shrug-outta-hecks

[–] SickSemper@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Plausibly deniable groyper references, imo. Could be internet poisoned in either direction

[–] barrel_of_a_gun@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

if he was a liberal/leftist purposefully using the same things as groypers just to confuse people for a couple days until his discord logs come out i'll keel over in shock i think, groypers already are pretty obscure (literally didnt know about them until like a year ago because of HB) i really wanna know what kind of internet rabbit hole this guy was in

[–] SickSemper@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I also believe every ounce of evidence pointing in the left direction would be spread by the Feds, so it’s weird that it takes a reporter to wring that out of some kid

[–] barrel_of_a_gun@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

yeah again, if this guy was a leftist where the fuck is the manifesto? why use such weird video game references that groypers also use?