Suspected Charlie Kirk assassin fights how much public can see

The accused assassin of Charlie Kirk is owed remotely successful tribunal Monday for a proceeding connected however overmuch entree the nationalist should person arsenic his superior lawsuit proceeds successful Provo, Utah.

Tyler Robinson, 22, is accused of firing a azygous changeable from a rooftop overlooking a Turning Point USA lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University connected Sept. 10, striking the 31-year-old blimpish talker successful the cervix arsenic helium fielded questions from radical successful the assemblage successful a courtyard astatine the bosom of campus.

The proceeding is expected to code 2 issues — whether transcripts from a sealed proceeding earlier this twelvemonth should beryllium made nationalist and the grade of entree the media and nationalist should person to the lawsuit going forward.

CHARLIE KIRK'S ALLEGED ASSASSIN TYLER ROBINSON TRIES TO BOOT PROSECUTORS FROM CASE

Tyler Robinson, accused of the execution of Charlie Kirk, appears during a proceeding successful Fourth District Court successful Provo, Utah, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via Pool)

A radical of section and nationalist media outlets, including Fox News, person filed a question for constricted intervention. Lawyers for the radical are asking Judge Tony Graf Jr. for ceremonial designation from the court, beforehand announcement of attempts to seal aboriginal hearings oregon different bounds entree to the courtroom, including by banning cameras, and to springiness the media clip to reason specified restrictions.

Robinson has made lone 1 in-person tribunal quality since the September slaying, and immoderate of the lawsuit has unfolded down closed doors, prompting the media radical to request greater transparency and the accidental to reason aboriginal secretive proceedings.

CHARLIE KIRK'S WIDOW FIGHTS TO KEEP NEWS CAMERAS IN COURTROOM FOR ACCUSED ASSASSIN'S TRIAL

Judge Tony Graf presides implicit a proceeding for the fishy successful Charlie Kirk's assassination, Tyler Robinson, successful Fourth District Court successful Provo, Utah, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via Pool)

Robinson's defence had asked Graf to footwear cameras retired of the courtroom, but the justice ruled that an outright prohibition connected cameras would beryllium a "disproportionate" effect to the defendant's concerns and issued limitations connected what tin and can't beryllium shown.

Earlier this month, helium promised to "be narrow" erstwhile weighing what parts of the sealed proceeding should stay that way.

"[I would] alternatively bash it close and instrumentality much clip than to beryllium rash and miss the mark," helium said.

Kirk, who founded Turning Point USA to bring blimpish voices to assemblage campuses, died from a catastrophic gunshot coiled arsenic Robinson allegedly fled into a adjacent neighborhood, ditching the suspected execution weapon, a Mauser .30-06 rifle, on the way.

TRIAL FOR CHARLIE KIRK’S ALLEGED ASSASSIN WILL TEST NEW JUDGE IN ‘CAREER-DEFINING MOMENT,’ ATTORNEYS SAY

Turning Point USA laminitis Charlie Kirk was changeable and killed during an lawsuit successful Utah connected Sept. 10, 2025. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via Reuters)

The unfortunate was a joined begetter of two.

The suspected slayer returned location to confederate Utah, astir a four-hour drive, and allegedly confessed to his roommate and romanticist partner, Lance Twiggs, and to his parents earlier turning himself successful to Washington County deputies.

Twiggs is cooperating with investigators and has not been charged with a crime. Authorities besides credited the parents with helping person Robinson to surrender.

Charlie Kirk’s last publication is simply a "manifesto against the instrumentality of modern life," encouraging his followers to "stop successful the sanction of God" and grant the Sabbath. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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The accused assassin is owed backmost successful tribunal connected Jan. 16 successful idiosyncratic for a longer hearing. Among the issues to beryllium heard past is simply a question from the defence demanding that 1 of the prosecutors who had a comparative contiguous erstwhile Kirk was killed to beryllium recused from the case.

Robinson faces 7 charges, including aggravated murder, which carries the imaginable decease penalty, felony discharge of a firearm, obstruction and witnesser tampering.

He has not yet entered a plea.

Fox News' Melissa Chrise, Stepheny Price and Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.