Charlie Kirk's wife Erika will make her first public comments since his killing shortly - you'll be able to watch live by clicking the button at the top of this page
The suspect in the murder of Kirk, Tyler Robinson, is in custody and will be formally charged on Tuesday
He was arrested after a 33-hour manhunt that ended after his father helped persuade him to surrender to police
Robinson is accused of aggravated murder, obstruction of justice, and felony discharge of a firearm, according to a Utah County Sheriff inmate booking sheet obtained by the BBC
His arrest was first announced by President Donald Trump, who called for the suspect to face the death penalty.
Kirk, a right-wing activist and influencer, was shot and killed while speaking on stage at a university event in Utah on Wednesday
Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, is due to speak shortly. We will bring you the live updates here.
Stay with us, and you can watch live at the top of this page.
As we wait for Charlie Kirk's wife Erika to make her first public remarks after his death, here are some images of the latest tributes outside Turning Point USA's headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Image source, ReutersTurning Point USA has just announced that Charlie Kirk's wife, Erika, will make her first public address at 20:15 EST (00:15 GMT) since her husband's death.
We'll bring you all the key lines as they come. You can also Watch live here when it begins.
We’ve been listening back to Wednesday's episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, released just hours before he was killed.
The 31-year-old covered a range of right-wing talking points that have been driving the week's political agenda, including some which Trump and the White House have repeatedly drawn attention to. They included ICE deportations in Chicago, the murder of a Ukrainian refugee and what Kirk called the "ever-increasing amount of black crime".
During a discussion with a Department of Homeland Security official early in the podcast, Kirk said city mayors who do not co-operate with federal ICE raids should be "in jail".
On the show, he also made the false claim that George Floyd, who was murdered by a white police officer in 2020, had died of an "overdose".
In one segment, Kirk discussed the murder of Iryna Zarutska, and claimed "empirical" data showed that "black people killing white people" was the "most common race-based hate attack" in America.
"See the left, they don’t like it when I say things like this. But I’m sorry," he said.
According to the latest FBI crime data, external, 10,805 hate crimes were reported in the US in the past year, with 2,872 against black people, while 847 were recorded as "anti-white".
Here’s another video showing large crowds gathering in the UK to pay tribute to Charlie Kirk.
Over the past two days, politicians from across the political spectrum in the UK have also been reacting to the news and condemning political violence.
Watch: Crowds gather in UK to pay tribute to Charlie Kirk
Our team has made it to Washington County, Utah, where the suspected killer of Charlie Kirk, Tyler Robinson, lives.
Watch below as BBC Verify correspondent Nick Beake shows us the outside of a residence linked to Robinson.
Watch: BBC reports from residence linked to Kirk suspect Tyler Robinson
Image source, ReutersState Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed at home in June 2025
As mentioned earlier, the killing of Charlie Kirk isn't the only act of severe political violence in the US in recent years.
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Read our North America Correspondent's analysis: Killing of Trump ally lays bare America's bloody and broken politics.
Sarah Smith
North America editor
Atrocities like the murder of Charlie Kirk often produce a moment of political consensus as people from opposing sides of the debate unite to condemn violence and call for calm.
But across America, expressions of grief and shock are competing for attention with incendiary rhetoric from Kirk’s fans and foes.
People who disagreed with him are openly celebrating his death online and suggesting he deserved to be killed.
On the right, there are calls for vengeance and a harsh crackdown on left-wing activists.
In an address from the Oval Office, President Trump blamed the news media and the "radical left" for "demonising those with whom you disagree".
Governor Spencer Cox of Utah warned today that political violence "metastasizes" and the country needs to "find an off ramp or its going to get much much worse".
Opinion polls suggest that America's appetite for political violence has grown in recent years, with increasing numbers of people saying it can be justified.
After a spate of recent murders and violent political attacks – including two attempts on Donald Trump’s life last year – there is widespread concern that this could be a dangerous moment in America.
Chairman of the Young Republican National Federation, Hayden Padgett, says he "couldn't believe more" in Utah Governor Spencer Cox's words.
The governor took a moment to address young people during the news conference with the FBI earlier. He said:
"Your generation has an opportunity to build a culture that is very different than what we're suffering through right now. Not by pretending differences don't matter, but by embracing our differences and having those hard conversations."
Padgett tells the BBC: "The only way we heal in this country and get better and make things move forward is if we are more like Charlie, and do more of what he was doing that very day."
John Ringer
Broadcast journalist, reporting from Washington DC
"There's nothing more un-American than hating our fellow Americans."
Those were the words of Utah's Republican Governor, Spencer Cox. Not today, but last week.
I was on the dais at the National Press Club, watching him speak alongside Maryland's Democratic Governor, Wes Moore.
The topic? Choosing dialogue over division. It’s familiar ground for Spencer Cox - he’s been asking Americans to do that for years.
He’s run TV ads, made speeches, held conferences - all with the tagline, "Disagree Better", external.
Image source, Getty ImagesJust last week, Utah Republican Governor Spencer Cox (R) was promoting reasoned debate with Maryland Democratic Governor Wes Moore (L)
Politically, the conservative Cox and the liberal Moore are poles apart, but last Thursday they showed a friendship that’s hard to fake.
“We're both dads, we're both husbands, we both love college football… we have great hair,” joked the very bald Utahn, as the equally-bald Moore laughed along.
They offered a vision of hope. “I really like this guy,” said Cox. “And I don't have to tear him down because we disagree on abortion or… on something else.”
Less than a week later, the most high-profile political assassination in recent US history took place in Cox's own backyard - the latest evidence, it seems, of the toxicity and division he warned about.
On Friday, under the glare of the national spotlight, Cox could only repeat his plea.
“At some point, we have to find an off-ramp... or it’s going to get much, much worse..."
Image source, ReutersWe heard earlier that Tyler Robinson’s roommate showed authorities messages the 22-year-old allegedly sent using the Discord social media platform.
Utah Governor Spencer Cox said investigators reviewed the messages, which described leaving a rifle in a bush wrapped in a towel – matching the weapon that authorities recovered in a wooded area near the scene of the shooting.
A Discord spokesperson has now confirmed the platform has been able to identify an account associated with Robinson and has removed the profile.
But Discord says it has "found no evidence that the suspect planned this incident or promoted violence on Discord".
Regan Morris
Reporting from Utah
I run into Commissioner Beau Mason of the Utah Department of Public Safety outside the crime scene cordon at Utah Valley University.
When asked for more details about Tyler Robinson’s movements between here and his family’s home in southern Utah, Mason says they are writing and executing search warrants to “put the puzzle together”.
Mason, who was appointed in June, doesn’t give details of where they plan to search but says we’ll probably hear the results on Tuesday, when the Utah County Attorney’s Office will hold a press briefing about planned charges.
“Now that we have him in custody, the investigation doesn’t stop,” he says.
We’re still piecing together what we know about 22-year-old suspect Tyler Robinson - who remains in custody in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.
Robinson is the oldest of three brothers. His father owns a business installing kitchen countertops and cabinets, and his mother is a licensed social worker.
The Robinson family is of Mormon faith and active in the church.
A neighbour tells the BBC’s US partner CBS News: “They are very supportive parents who loved their boys and involved in the community.”
The neighbour also sensed he had different politics than his parents.
According to the Utah System of Higher Education, Robinson is a third-year student in the electrical apprenticeship programme at Dixie Technical College.
He briefly attended Utah State University for one semester in 2021 and received concurrent enrolment credit through Utah Tech University while in high school.
Utah state records show Robinson registered to vote as unaffiliated, and his registration status is listed as inactive.
Image source, Getty ImagesAs we reported earlier, law enforcement has found markings on ammunition inside the rifle recovered into this case, including an up, right, and three down arrows.
It appears these arrows are linked to video gaming.
The arrow symbols match the input needed to use a stratagem in the video game Helldivers 2.
That stratagem, Eagle 500kg Bomb, external, is considered one of the most destructive special moves in the game.
The game, which won two Bafta awards earlier this year, was a smash hit. Set in a satirical universe inspired by the 1990s sci-fi film Starship Troopers, players can team up with friends or strangers to kill big insects and robots.
Notably, the theme of the game includes some political references. On its Steam page, there is a description which says:
"Freedom. Peace. Democracy.
"Your Super Earth-born rights.
"The key pillars of our civilisation.
"Of our very existence.
"But the war rages on. And everything is once again under threat.
"Join the greatest military force the galaxy has ever seen and make this a safe and free place to live."
We can bring you more details on Tyler Robinson's arrest from the booking sheet obtained by CBS News, the BBC's US partner.
Robinson is due to be charged with the following:
As we previously reported, the Utah county attorney's office plans to formally file charges on Tuesday.
With Tyler Robinson in custody, more details are emerging about the lead-up to his arrest.
As we've already reported, Robinson's father recognised his son when the FBI released pictures of the suspect on Thursday.
According to the BBC's US partner CBS News, sources say Robinson admitted to his father that he was the person in the photos.
Robinson's father told his son he should hand himself in. But Robinson said he would rather take his own life.
The father than called a youth pastor, who is close to Tyler Robinson and his family. The pastor, and Tyler's father, tried to calm him down.
The pastor called the US Marshals. The Marshals then detained Robinson, who kept him secure until the FBI came and took the 22-year-old into custody.
We're now getting more information about the suspect, Tyler Robinson.
He was a third-year student in an electrical apprenticeship programme at Dixie Technical College in south-west Utah, where he lived, a spokesperson for Utah Valley University (UVU) tells the BBC.
The college is one of 16 Utah System of Higher Education institutions - UVU is also a member of that system.
Robinson briefly attended Utah State University for one semester in 2021 and received college credit through Utah Tech University while in high school from 2019 to 2021, the spokesperson adds.
He was not a student at Utah Valley University, where the shooting took place.
Although Tyler Robinson is in custody, and is due to be charged on Tuesday, the investigation into Charlie Kirk's shooting is not over.
We're now seeing pictures of several Washington City police officers and Washington County sheriff's deputies outside a residence associated with Tyler Robinson in the south-west Utah city where he lived.
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Image source, ReutersThe conservative group that Kirk founded as an 18-year-old in 2012, Turning Point USA, has thanked law enforcement for arresting the suspect, Tyler Robinson.
"We are profoundly grateful to the men and women of law enforcement who worked with such urgency, dedication, and courage to bring this person to justice," the group says.
"Their commitment has brought an important step toward closure in this incredibly painful time."
A new episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, the 31-year-old's hugely popular daily podcast, is being shown without its host.
Instead, Kirk's collaborators and friends are broadcasting next to an empty chair.
Producer Andrew Kolvet introduced the programme, saying it was something "none of us ever dreamed we'd have to do".
"Charlie would want us to be here," Kolvet said. "And we of course have left his chair open and empty because nobody will ever fill it."
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