How suspect in Charlie Kirk's killing went from scholarship winner to wanted man

St. George, Utah

: In the conservative southern Utah city where Tyler

Robinson

grew up, neighbors and classmates described him as a reserved, intelligent young man raised in a Republican family who was deeply interested in video games, comic books and current events.
On Friday afternoon, people who knew Robinson struggled to reconcile their memories of him and his seemingly ordinary suburban upbringing with his notorious new image: the latest face of political violence, accused of fatally shooting conservative influencer Charlie Kirk on a Utah college campus this week in what authorities have called a political assassination.