Utah’s governor has suggested the man suspected in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk may have been driven to kill by his engagement with online culture and video games.

“There was a lot of gaming going on,” Gov. Spencer Cox told NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday. “Friends have confirmed that there was that deep dark internet, Reddit culture and other dark places of the internet where this person was going deep.”

Authorities have arrested 22-year-old Tyler Robinson and are expected on Tuesday to charge him with this week’s murder of the far-right commentator during a campus event in Utah.

Robinson’s detention has prompted fervent speculation as to his political leanings and potential motives for the killing, with right-wing voices framing him online as a violent adherent

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