For the 33 hours it would take police and FBI investigators to pore over evidence and pursue thousands of tips that would lead them to the suspected gunman in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk , Gov. Spencer Cox repeated one prayer: Don’t let the perpetrator be from Utah.

The governor hoped to comfort Utahns with the notion that one of the state’s own did not pull the trigger.

“ But it did happen here ,” Cox said during a news conference Friday when he announced the arrest, “and it was one of us.”

Late Thursday, police apprehended 22-year-old Tyler Robinson , a resident of the southwestern Utah city of Washington. The realization that the shooter was homegrown sent ripples across a state that prides itself on being nice, polite, with good families and strong

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