Conservative Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer, 31, Tyler Robinson, made chilling comments during his first in-person court appearance, according to a lip-reading analysis.
Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed in front of a crowd of 3,000 at the first stop during his Turning Point USA “American Comeback Tour” on September 10 at Utah Valley University.
In a chilling courtroom moment captured by lip readers, Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, 22, said he thinks about the shooting “every day” and mentioned widow Erika Kirk during a court exchange with his attorney, the court reported. New York Post.
The alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, appeared in court calmly and even shared a laugh with his attorney on Thursday, December 11, 2025, three months after Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University.
What did Tyler Robinson discuss with his lawyer in the courtroom?
“I think about the shooting every day,” Robinson, who has been behind bars since his arrest days after the murder, appears to tell his lawyer in an unmicked moment before the hearing began, according to an analysis by Lip Reader Ltd. (a well-known lip-reading services platform).
Lip reader analysis adds to alleged killer in Charlie Kirk’s murder, Tyler Robinson’s exchange with his lawyer.
“Every morning… all the time,” he continues.
He then appears to mention Erika Kirk, who was left with the couple’s two young daughters, in the disturbing exchange.
“So, he had a wife…” the lip reader caught on at one point.
At another point, he referred to his own condition and confessed that he had been “smoking a lot,” that he couldn’t sleep at night, and that it was “driving me crazy.”
“Unfortunately, it’s driving me crazy. I’m useless,” he adds, according to the analysis.
Robinson wore a simple blue button-down shirt and a tartan tie.
Tyler Robinson, the alleged shooter in the murder of Charlie Kirk, faces charges of aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, obstruction of justice, two counts of witness tampering and commission of a violent crime in the presence of a child.
The next hearing is scheduled for December 29, 2025.
