{"text":[[{"start":9.64,"text":"The pictures of Tyler Robinson posted by his mother on Facebook show a typical college student: clean cut, wearing a baseball cap and Converse sneakers, barely distinguishable from most of his classmates."}],[{"start":24.69,"text":"Yet this is the man who investigators have accused of killing US conservative activist Charlie Kirk, a close ally of President Donald Trump and one of America’s most prominent rightwing influencers."}],[{"start":39.63,"text":"The 22-year-old, who lived in Utah’s Washington County with his family, was taken into custody about 33 hours after Kirk was shot on Wednesday, an event that sparked a large-scale manhunt and raised fears about an upsurge in political violence in the country."}],[{"start":61.08,"text":"Little is known about his possible motive, but Utah governor Spencer Cox on Friday said investigators had interviewed a family member “who stated that Robinson had become more political in recent years”."}],[{"start":75.47,"text":"The person said he had attended a family dinner prior to Kirk’s killing and mentioned in a conversation with another family member that the activist was coming to Utah Valley University (UVU), according to Cox."}],[{"start":89.16,"text":"“They talked about why they didn’t like him and the viewpoints he had,” Cox said."}],[{"start":94.7,"text":"However, there is little evidence Robinson was engaged in politics. He was a registered voter but was not affiliated with a political party, according to state voter records."}],[{"start":107.24000000000001,"text":"There is also little in his family’s social media presence to indicate a propensity for violence. Photos posted on Facebook by his mother, a social worker at a non-profit healthcare company, are largely innocuous, showing the family at Halloween parties, or on vacation in Alaska, the Caribbean and Disneyland."}],[{"start":128.32,"text":"A 2017 post shows them at a military facility, posing with assault rifles. Tyler Robinson is shown smiling as he holds the handles of a 50-calibre heavy machine gun."}],[{"start":142.22,"text":"The Financial Times could not independently verify the pictures, most of which were deleted on Friday."}],[{"start":149.17,"text":"The family lives in a suburb of St George, a city in the southern part of Utah about a three-and-a-half hour drive away from the UVU campus where Kirk was killed."}],[{"start":161.66,"text":"Robinson was not a student at UVU: he briefly attended Utah State University for one semester in 2021, according to a statement from USU on Friday, on a prestigious academic scholarship, He is currently enrolled as a third-year student in the electrical apprenticeship programme at Dixie Technical College in St George."}],[{"start":183.45,"text":"One video circulating on social media platforms on Friday and apparently posted by his mother appeared to show him reading out a letter confirming he had received USU’s four-year award."}],[{"start":197.29,"text":"“The value of this scholarship is approximately $32,000,” he is shown saying. He then whoops with joy and his mother is heard cheering in the background."}],[{"start":209.12,"text":"In another entry from August 2020, his mother posted what appears to be a college aptitude test score for Robinson that would put him in the top 1 per cent of test takers, according to recent averages."}],[{"start":224.82,"text":"Cox said that on Thursday evening, a family member called a family friend who in turn called the Washington County’s Sheriff’s Office “with information that Robinson had confessed to them or implied that he had committed the incident”."}],[{"start":239.4,"text":"Law enforcement officials confirmed it was Robinson’s father who had tipped off the police. Cox thanked the family for “doing the right thing”, adding that a “friend” also helped."}],[{"start":251.05,"text":"The governor added investigators had found messages written on the casings of the bullets in the Mauser rifle allegedly used in the shooting which appear to suggest a political motive."}],[{"start":264.24,"text":"Cox said one inscription on an unfired casing read: “Hey fascists! Catch!” accompanied by arrows pointed up, right and down. Those could be a reference to a sequence of moves in the video game Helldivers that release a bomb in an air strike."}],[{"start":281.87,"text":"The governor said another inscription on an unfired casing read: “Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao” — an apparent reference to the anthem of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the second world war. The third unfired casing was inscribed with the words: “If you read this, you are gay LMAO [laughing my ass off].”"}],[{"start":305.35,"text":"Cameron Roden, an official with the Utah Department of Public Safety, said Robinson was facing multiple felony charges including aggravated murder and obstruction of justice."}],[{"start":326.43,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftmailbox.cn/album/a_1757725688_3459.mp3"}