The Utah trade school student jailed on suspicion of fatally shooting right-wing activist Charlie Kirk will be charged next week over an act of violence widely seen as a foreboding inflection point in US politics.

Tyler Robinson, 22, was arrested on Thursday night after relatives and a family friend alerted authorities that he had implicated himself in the crime, Governor Spencer Cox said on Friday, telling a press conference, "We got him".

The arrest capped a 33-hour manhunt for the lone suspect in Wednesday's killing, which President Donald Trump called a "heinous assassination".

Kirk, co-founder of the conservative student group Turning Point USA and a staunch Trump ally, was killed by a single rifle shot fired from a rooftop during an outdoor event attended by 3000 people at Utah Va

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