A minute and 41 seconds.

That’s how long the phone call was that led to the arrest of suspected Charlie Kirk shooter Tyler James Robinson.

Robinson, 22, feared mounting pressure from law enforcement would lead to a SWAT raid, Washington County Sheriff Nate Brooksby said Wednesday.

“He was truly fearful of being shot by law enforcement,” Brooksby said during a news conference.

Brooksby said he got a phone call from a retired detective he knows around 8 p.m. Thursday night.

“I couldn’t fathom what was going to come out of his mouth,” Brooksby said.

Brooksby said the the retired detective told him he knew who Kirk’s shooter was, and that he was working with the family to get Robinson to turn himself in voluntarily.

Brooksby said the negotiation with Robinson was to make the surrender “

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