The man suspected of carrying out the most sensational assassination in recent memory joked with friends online that it was someone who looks, walks and talks just like him who committed the shocking crime.
Tyler Robinson, who is expected on Tuesday to be charged with last week’s murder of far-right activist Charlie Kirk, apparently told a Discord chat room that any resemblance between himself and the FBI’s images of its suspect was simply his “doppleganger” trying to “get me in trouble.”
The messages, obtained by the New York Times, provide some of the first insights into 22-year-old Robinson’s apparent state of mind after he allegedly gunned down Kirk at a campus event in Utah Wednesday.
While screenshots of exchanges between Robinson and his friends in the hours after Kirk’s death d