After Kirk’s killing, suspect joked that his ‘doppelganger’ did it

The day after Charlie Kirk was killed, an acquaintance of Tyler Robinson’s posed a question to him in a group chat.

The FBI had just released two grainy surveillance images of a skinny young man in a cap and sunglasses walking in a stairwell on the Utah Valley University campus, and had asked for the public’s help in identifying the suspect.

Tagging Robinson’s username on Discord, a messaging platform, the acquaintance attached the images and wrote “wya” — where you at? — with a skull emoji, suggesting that Robinson, 22, looked like the man being sought.

Robinson replied within a minute. His “doppelganger,” he wrote, was trying to “get me in trouble.”

“Tyler killed Charlie!!!!” another user wrote, apparently in jest.

That was Thursday afternoon, around 1 p.m. local time. It was not un