Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Sunday that investigators are not ready to discuss the motive behind the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk . But he said the suspect had left-leaning political beliefs, disliked the conservative influencer and is being uncooperative in custody.
“Clearly a leftist ideology,” Cox told NBC’s Meet the Press . On CNN’s State of the Union , he said, “That information comes from the people around him, his family members and friends.”
Cox said Robinson, 22, is “not cooperating” and that friends paint a picture of someone radicalized in the dark corners of the internet. “Clearly there was a lot of gaming going on,” Cox said on NBC. “Friends have confirmed that there was kind of that deep, dark internet, the Reddit culture, and these other dark