The older man arrested and carried away from the scene where Charlie Kirk was fatally shot last week is being held at the Utah County Jail under suspicion of obstruction of justice and possession of child sex abuse material.

George Zinn, 71, was in the crowd at Kirk’s Utah Valley University event Wednesday and reportedly told officers in the moments after the shooting that he had fired the gun.

Authorities took Zinn into custody, but Zinn was uncooperative with investigators and “began to have a medical issue,”’ so he was then taken to a local hospital, according to a news release from the Utah Department of Public Safety.

While at the hospital, Zinn told agents from the FBI and the Utah State Bureau of Investigation that he was not the shooter, but yelled that he was “to allow the actu

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