According to Reuters, the 22-year-old Utah youth is facing multiple charges of murder, serious injury and interference with justice, according to Reuters, speaking about the shocking US case, Utah Governor Cox said Robinson refused to cooperate with the police after being arrested, so investigators are looking for the motive of the case by talking to his friends.
Cox said Robinson's roommate was talking to the investigators and he was "very cooperative." Reuters that investigators found inscription information on the four shells left on the scene, including "scorps" in a number of web and video games.
According to the Washington Post, Cox said in an interview with the media that Robinson's relatives told investigators that Robinson's political views were "very different" from his conservative family, "obviously there was a leftist ideology." But the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and other media said that Robinson was allegedly associated with an extreme right-wing group called "Groyper."The group claimed to be "anti-fascist" and spread anti-Semitism, white supremacist, and upper-right conservative ideas in terms of games, cyberbullying and expression.
The death of Kirk also sparked a fierce conflict of opinion among American factions. According to CNN, a website called “Discover Charlie’s Murderer” has attracted U.S. social media attention. The site has collected some personal information of people suspected of “celebrating Kirk’s death” and published it on the network. Many are concerned that the spread of these “open-box information” may lead to cyber violence.
Laura Rumer, an American far-right activist and formerly close to Trump, tweeted on social media platform X hours after the shooting: “Tonight I’m going to make all those who celebrate his death ‘famous’, so if you’re sick to celebrate his death, be prepared for your future career prospects to be completely destroyed.”
Others say they have been subjected to cyber threats and harassment: Canadian independent journalist Rachel Gilmore said she has received a lot of threats and that the last 48 hours have been “human hell” for her and “fear” for Kirk’s “extreme-right fan” retaliation.
“Different reactions suggest that Kirk’s death is likely to only deepen the huge political divisions in the United States – just like last year’s attempted assassination of Trump.” Reuters wrote in a report that since the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, “the United States has never achieved national unity in the tragedy in the past one-fourth century,” reports Ruth Brownstein, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University, who said the shooting could exacerbate the already tense political situation in the United States and that it was clearly a personal tragedy, but it could also further ignite the already overheated political environment.