Court hears police interview with Charlie Kirk assassination suspect’s roommate
Jurors heard Lance Twiggs’s recorded police interview as the judge weighed whether Tyler Robinson’s case should go to trial in the Charlie Kirk killing.
A recording of a police interview with Lance Twiggs, Tyler Robinson’s former roommate and romantic partner, was played in a Provo courtroom as a judge weighed whether the Charlie Kirk killing case should go to trial. Robinson, 23, faces aggravated murder and capital murder charges, along with 10 counts in all, over the September 10, 2025, shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
The preliminary hearing began Monday in the Fourth District Court and is expected to last five days. Cameras and microphones were allowed in the courtroom, turning the hearing into a public test of how much evidence the state can expose before a jury is chosen. The recording gave the court Twiggs’s own account rather than a paper summary, a difference that matters in a case where tone, hesitation and sequence can shape how a juror reads a statement.
Twiggs told investigators Robinson later said he “wishes he hadn’t done it,” and he said he saw Robinson the day after Kirk was killed. Prosecutors have also said Robinson left a note saying, “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it,” and sent Twiggs a text saying he targeted Kirk because he “had enough of his hatred.” Those statements remain central to the state’s argument that the shooting was deliberate and planned.
Defense attorneys fought the public release of Twiggs’s statements, arguing prosecutors would cast them as a confession and that opening them broadly could prejudice Robinson’s right to a fair trial. Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow, asked the judge to require that all evidence admitted in court be shown publicly to everyone lawfully present and that earlier exhibits not yet displayed be republished. The request was denied.
The hearing has already produced stark courtroom scenes. Charlie Kirk’s parents and Erika Kirk left before graphic video evidence was shown, while Donald Trump Jr. and his wife Bettina remained in the room during at least part of that testimony. The case has drawn intense national attention because Kirk was a prominent conservative activist and a close ally of President Donald Trump, and the hearing is now forcing the court to balance public scrutiny against the protections built into a capital case.
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