Overview

• FBI Director Kash Patel posted an update during Charlie Kirk’s memorial, saying agents are pursuing every lead and assessing questions about shot location, bullet trajectory, weapon transport, possible crowd signals, and visitors to the suspect’s home.
• Investigators are examining a Discord message attributed to Tyler Robinson that reads, “It was me at UVU yesterday,” with Patel telling Congress that more than 20 linked users are being reviewed and that legal process has been served to preserve evidence.
• Discord said its internal review found no evidence the platform was used to plan the attack or promote violence, even as the FBI treats the alleged confession as part of the case record.
• Patel rejected a widely shared plane-transponder theory, citing FAA input and a pilot interview indicating the transponder was never turned off and that rural flight data gaps created an apparent outage.
• Robinson, 22, is charged with aggravated murder as prosecutors seek the death penalty; he has not entered a plea, and his next court appearance is set for September 29.