The older man arrested at Utah Valley University after he allegedly told police he had shot political commentator Charlie Kirk is now facing felony charges related to child sexual exploitation.

George Zinn, 71, was charged Thursday in Utah’s 4th District Court with four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony.

Zinn was arrested Sept. 10 , in the moments after Kirk was shot, and video of authorities carrying him from the scene spread rapidly online, with many believing in the immediate chaos that he was the shooter. Ultimately, police said Zinn did not match the description of the shooting suspect.

Zinn was the first of two suspects police detained that day. Police ultimately released the second man .

Tyler James Robinson, 22, turned himself on the night o

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