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Tyler Robinson, the accused killer of Charlie Kirk, has not confessed to the killing and is not cooperating with authorities at all. However, some people around him are talking. One of them is Robinson's roommate, Lance Twiggs, who lives with Robinson in an apartment in St. George, UT. His family members are all Trump-supporting conservative Christians. It is possible that Twiggs is the person who tipped off the authorities that Robinson was the killer. In any event Twiggs is now fully cooperating with the authorities and has turned over communications he received from Robinson.
There were stories floating around in not-all-that-respectable media outlets Saturday that Twiggs and Robinson were involved in a romantic relationship and Twiggs was in the process of transitioning from male to female. At first, we didn't want to touch this story with a 3.05-meter pole, but yesterday Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) confirmed that the suspect's "roommate was indeed a boyfriend who is transitioning from male to female." We hope that Cox got this from a source more reliable than The New York Post. As the governor of the state where the murder happened, he has access to information not available to the public. At the very least, this adds a new wrinkle to the situation. Investigators want to know if Kirk's known hatred of trans people played any role in Robinson's decision to kill him. Cox also said that Robinson's worldview had been influenced by some very dark places of the Internet. (V)