Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin Tyler Robinson was raised a devout Mormon — yet fired his fatal shot at Kirk just moments after the conservative influencer had glowingly praised the Church of Latter-day Saints.
“I love how Mormons send missionaries around the world, I love how polite they are. … Half my team is Mormon,” Kirk, 31, said to huge cheers from the crowd at Utah Valley University moments before he was allegedly killed by the 22-year-old trade-school student.
“Mormons are great people. Let me just say, I’m an evangelical Christian, but I’m not one of those guys that hates on Mormons,” Kirk said.
Footage from Kirk’s final event at Utah Valley on Wednesday — posted on Instagram — shows him even bantering with a member of the Mormon faith in the crowd, referencing how he had “the white shirt and tie put on right there,” before going on to speak of his love for the church.
Kirk’s words came just minutes before he was shot and killed — allegedly by Robinson.
The accused killer “went to our church when he was younger,” neighbor Kristin Schwiermann, who knew Tyler and his parents, Matt and Amber, told The Post.
“I just know that [Tyler] carried himself nicely. He was very nice. He was smart. I hear he had a full-ride scholarship [to college]. … I was shocked that this was even him.”
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a statement in the wake of the tragic news but before the alleged killer had been identified as Mormon.
