What we know — and don’t know — about what motivated Charlie Kirk’s assassination

A poster of Charlie Kirk is passed into the stands at Arizona State University on Monday, during a vigil for him. Eric Thayer/Getty Images

It’s been a long week full of overzealous speculation about the motive behind Charlie Kirk’s assassination and his killer’s ideology.

But on Tuesday, we finally received a more substantial picture of the suspect, Tyler Robinson, and his actions.

Prosecutors in Utah released charging documents that don’t ascribe a specific motive but do feature a number of clues and shed light on Robinson’s politics.

Such acts of violence often feature suspects and perpetrators with sometimes conflicting sets of beliefs and characteristics that don’t necessarily fit neatly on the right-left political continuum, despite politicians’ and partisans’ attempts to bl