"The murder of Charlie Kirk is an American tragedy," prosecutor Jeffrey Gray says. Photo: AP PHOTO

Prosecutors in the US state of Utah have formally charged a suspect in conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination with aggravated murder and intend to seek the death penalty if he is convicted.

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Tyler Robinson, 22, is accused of firing the single rifle shot from a rooftop sniper's nest that pierced Kirk's neck last Wednesday on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, about 65km south of Salt Lake City.

Utah County District Attorney Jeffrey Gray said at a press conference

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