Charlie Kirk’s suspected assassin will not show face in court, key hearing postponed
Tyler Robinson appears in Utah court
Attorneys leave Utah courthouse after Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin, appeared in a closed hearing on Oct. 24, 2025. (Alec Thornock for Fox News Digital)
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Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old suspected assassin accused of shooting Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk during a campus appearance at Utah Valley University last month, will no longer show his face in a Provo courthouse at a planned in-person hearing later this week.
Robinson is due in court Monday for a virtual appearance where he won’t show his face, either, according to court officials. The judge is expected to weigh in on motions to allow him to wear street clothes in court and to bar cameras from the proceedings, but his tentatively scheduled preliminary hearing has been pushed back to January.
Robinson’s defense was already expected to ask for more time at the now-canceled Oct. 30 hearing.
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This split image shows suspected assassin Tyler James Robinson, left, and victim Charlie Kirk, a founder of Turning Point USA, on the right. (Gov. Spencer Cox’s office; AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
In Utah, preliminary hearings can be delayed for months in cases involving serious felonies, sometimes up to a year, Skye Lazaro, a Salt Lake City-based defense attorney, told Fox News Digital earlier this month.
The hearing gives the defense a chance to cross-examine witnesses and force prosecutors to show evidence in court that establishes probable cause to bring charges in the alleged crime.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during an event in Utah. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via Reuters)
Robinson faces a top charge of aggravated murder, which carries the potential death penalty.
He is accused of climbing onto a campus rooftop with his grandfather’s Mauser .30-06 and shooting Kirk once in the neck.
Tyler Robinson appears virtually in Utah court on Sept. 16, 2025, to face charges in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. (Utah State Courts)
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Authorities have previously alleged that they found the suspected murder weapon with his DNA on it and incriminating text messages in which he allegedly admitted to the crime to friends and family.
They also have video from the campus security system that allegedly shows him coming and going before and after the slaying. Additional evidence against him is expected to emerge at the preliminary hearing, once it is held.
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