OREM, Utah (AP) — The suspect in the Charlie Kirk assassination has been captured, President Donald Trump said Friday in an announcement that appeared to represent a significant breakthrough in an investigation that captivated public attention and spanned nearly two days.
“With a high degree of certainty, we have him,” Trump announced in a live interview on Fox News Channel on Friday morning. He said a minister also involved with law enforcement turned the suspect, whose name was not immediately known, in to authorities.
“Somebody that was very close to him said, ‘Hmm, that’s him,’” Trump said.
The FBI and the Justice Department did not immediately comment, but a news conference in Utah, where the killing took place on a college campus this week, was planned for later Friday. News of th