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The Guardian
|September 18, 2025
Suspect was part of nihilist online world
On the day 22-year-old Tyler Robinson allegedly shot and killed the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, prosecutors say he texted his roommate to confess what he'd done. While appearing to admit to the murder and describe how he would retrieve his gun, he pivoted to mention why he had carved messages into the ammunition.
"Remember how I was engraving bullets? The fuckin messages are mostly a big meme," Robinson texted, according to officials.
The shooting of Kirk has put the spotlight on the intersection of political violence and an increasingly nihilistic online world that promotes misinformation and extremism. Robinson appeared to spend much of his life on the internet and playing video games. Friends described him as "terminally online".
This story is from the September 18, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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