REMEMBERING -- Flags, candles and signs sit at a Thursday vigil for Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of Turning Point USA who was shot and killed Wednesday. -- Associated Press

OREM, Utah — 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 Chanel on Friday morning. He said a minister also involved with law enforcement turned the suspect, whose name was not immediately known, into authorities,

“Somebody that was very close to him said, ‘Hmm, that’s him,'” Trump said.

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