“I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him in custody,” the U.S. president said on Fox News Friday morning.
Donald Trump appeared on the daily talk show Fox & Friends and was asked if there had been any developments in the assassination of Conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah. Although Trump didn’t reveal any details he said someone very close to the suspect is said to have turned him in.
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Trump said the information was made available to him five minutes before he was set to appear on the Fox News show. He said he hopes the killer gets death penalty. “Kirk was the finest person and he didn’t deserve this,” the U.S. president said, adding that Kirk was like a son to him.
The investigators released a series of photos and video of the suspect they believed assassinated the 31-year-old Trump ally as he spoke to students gathered in the courtyard of the Utah Valley University in Orem.
“We cannot do our job without the public’s help right now,” Utah’s Governor Spencer Cox said during a press conference on Thursday. “The public has answered our call for action.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has received over 7,000 tips and leads, Cox said.
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