President Donald Trump said Friday morning that the suspect in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk was likely caught.

"With a high degree of certainty, we have him," Trump announced in a live interview on Fox News Channel on Friday morning. Advertisement

The suspect in custody in connection with Kirk's killing is a 22-year-old from Utah, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Authorities have identified the suspect as Tyler Robinson, said the official, who was not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

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Kirk was speaking at a debate hosted by the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA when he was shot and killed. Kirk was the CEO and co-founder of Turning Point USA.

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