The man suspected of killing Charlie Kirk has been taken into custody, according to US President Donald Trump.

Kirk, 31, was assassinated while speaking at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

The killer eluded police and federal agents since the shooting, in which a sniper fired a single gunshot.

"I think we have him," Trump told Fox News in an interview on Friday, adding that a person who knows the suspect had turned him in.

"It was a minister, and the minister went to a friend, a minister who was involved with law enforcement, by the way, and his good friend is a top US Marshal.

"And they took it from there. And then it was a father got involved, namely his father, and said, 'We got to go in,'.

"We have the person that we think is the person we're loo

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