Pins and candles are placed on a poster with an image of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a vigil for him at Colorado State University. Cheney Orr/Reuters
More than two weeks after Charlie Kirk, the conservative firebrand and close ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, his suspected killer is set to appear in court Monday – the next step on the lengthy road to a state trial.
Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old who grew up in a Utah suburb and briefly attended Utah State University before dropping out and enrolling in an electrical apprenticeship program, faces a flurry of charges in Utah related to Kirk’s death: aggravated murder, two counts of obstruction of justice, felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily i