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A 22-year-old wannabe professional gamer who lived with Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin gave cops incriminating text messages leading to his arrest.
Lance Twiggs turned over Tyler Robinson, who lived with him in a three-bedroom apartment in Saint George, Utah.
Twiggs showed police texts from Robinson about stashing a gun linked to Wednesday’s shooting of the prominent conservative activist at Utah Valley University (UVU), a law enforcement affidavit said.
His identity was revealed as separate reports emerged from Fox and the New York Post which stated that Robinson was living with a ‘transgender partner’ who is co-operating with the investigation.
It is unclear if Twiggs is the same person referenced in the reports and he has not been named in the affidavit.
Authorities are yet to confirm a motive, but Utah Governor Spencer Cox told the Wall Street Journal that Robinson was, ‘deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology’.
South Utah native, Twiggs, studied at Utah Tech University, according to his Facebook page. Robinson, 22, was also taking electrician training at a nearby technical college.
And like Robinson he was an avid gamer, posting shooting game videos on a TikTok account with the bio: ‘Becoming TikTok pros one terrible video at a time.’
He posted himself on social media playing popular games including Apex Legends, Valorant and Rocket League.
Other comical videos he shared included adding spaghetti to an Italian sandwich and microwaving a bottle of Mountain Dew.
Robinson and Twiggs were part of a large group chat of dozens of gamer friends mostly from Robinson’s alma mater, Pine View High School, hosted on online chat network Discord.
Robinson’s alleged incriminating texts to Twiggs were also sent on Discord, according to the affidavit filed Friday.
Twiggs and Robinsons’ neighbor, Cable Phillips, 20, said police arrived at their two-story housing complex around 5.30am on Friday, and cordoned off the surrounding area.
Investigators were seen carrying out paper bags, envelopes, and a personal computer. A forensics team photographed the exterior and worked their way inside the property.
While they worked, neighbors stood behind police tape watching in the early morning desert sunshine.
Resident, Josh Kemp, 18, told The New York Times that Robinson would ‘always blast music with his roommate’ and ‘never talk to anybody’.
Oliver Holt, 11, told the paper that when he knocked on Robinson’s door last week asking for odd jobs, the alleged shooter was ‘acting pretty strange’ and kept glancing back into his apartment ‘acting kind of nervous and scared’.
