Utah prosecutors on Thursday played redacted clips of authorities interviewing a roommate and former romantic partner of Tyler Robinson, the 23-year-old man accused of assassinating conservative political activist Charlie Kirk on a university campus last fall.Subscribe to read this story ad-freeGet unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.In the video and audio clips, Robinson’s former partner, Lance Twiggs, recalled that the accused assassin paced around their apartment after Kirk’s killing.Twiggs said Robinson told him he planned to confess to his parents or turn himself in to law enforcement.Robinson said he wished “he hadn’t done it,” Twiggs told the law enforcement interviewer.Twiggs, seen in the video dressed in a suit and tie, said he never heard Robinson talk about Kirk before the Sept.
10 shooting at Utah Valley University in front of a crowd of hundreds of spectators.The audio was played on the fourth day of a five-day preliminary hearing to determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence to bring Robinson to trial.State District Judge Tony F.
Graf Jr.will make that decision at the end of the proceedings.Robinson is charged with aggravated murder and he has not entered a plea.
He turned himself in to law enforcement the day after the shooting of Kirk, a co-founder of the influential conservative student organization Turning Point USA and an ally of President Donald Trump.Add NBC News to GoogleProsecution shows new video of moments before and after Charlie Kirk's assassination03:32Prosecutors allege Robinson left a note for Twiggs that said: “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.” The two later exchanged text messages that were detailed in a Utah County Attorney’s Office indictment.“I had enough of his hatred.Some hate can’t be negotiated out,” Robinson told Twiggs in one text message, according to the indictment.
In another text message, Robinson alluded to engraving messag...