A more than 30-hour search for the gunman who shot and killed Charlie Kirk before a crowd of thousands ended late Thursday, more than 250 miles away, officials said, with a phone call from a family friend of the suspect who is now in custody.

Tyler Robinson, 22, is being held in the Utah County Jail on suspicion of aggravated murder and other felonies, according to court records. Authorities identified him Friday as the person that they believe shot Kirk and said they believe he acted alone.

The announcement of an arrest capped an intense, multiagency search that began with the grisly assassination of Kirk at Utah Valley University in Orem on Wednesday afternoon. It included two mistaken announcements by authorities that they had a suspect in custody, only for those people to be released

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