“Oh my God, no.” That’s what Lance Twiggs cried out when federal investigators confronted him with the claim that his partner, Tyler Robinson, had just shot down Charlie Kirk.

Sources told Axios that Twiggs, stunned and horrified, immediately agreed to cooperate. And that confession, raw, panicked, and four words long, set off a trail that led agents straight to Robinson.

But here’s the twist. The FBI didn’t want Twiggs’s name out there. They tried to keep his gender identity under wraps because, according to insiders, he had been “extremely cooperative” from the start.

The Messages That Changed Everything

Investigators looked through Discord chats from Robinson, who used the name “Tyler.” In those messages, he bragged about hiding a rifle in bushes near Utah Valley University. He said

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