When she first saw photos U.S. law enforcement released of Charlie Kirk’s suspected shooter the day after his killing on a Utah Valley University (UVU) quad on Sept. 10, Tyler Robinson’s mother told police that she immediately thought the person resembled her son.

According to the charging documents released this week, when she called her 22-year-old son, the oldest of her three boys, he claimed to be at home sick for a second straight day.

Unsatisfied, she contacted her husband, who agreed that the pictured person resembled their firstborn.

“He also believed that the rifle that police suspected the shooter used matched a rifle that was given to his son as a gift,” the document reads.

After receiving no response to a request for a photo of the rifle, which investigators found in a wo

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