Overview

• Hegerty posted that she had never heard of Kirk before the attack, later stating she joins Bernie Sanders in deploring his murder.
• Followers labeled her comments misinformed, to which she replied that Americans should take the temperature down a bit.
• Kirk, 31, was shot in the neck during a Utah Valley University event on September 10 and died hours later.
• Prosecutors have charged student Tyler Robinson, 22, with capital murder; he appeared via Zoom, was held without bail, and was described as wearing a suicide vest.
• Police say Robinson surrendered after a 33-hour search when his father recognized him in CCTV images, and Kirk’s wife later vowed the movement he built would continue.