Recently unsealed search warrants in the case against alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson shed more light on a letter he wrote to his former boyfriend and roommate, Lance Twiggs, explaining what he had allegedly done.
On Sept. 10, 2025, the day Kirk was shot at Utah Valley University, Robinson told Twiggs by text to go look under his keyboard where he had put a letter, according to the documents.
“If you are reading this per my text, then I am so sorry. I left the house this morning on a mission, and set an auto text,” Robinson wrote. The Deseret News reported on the letter in September, but the contents were not publicly disclosed at that time.
“I am likely dead, or facing a lengthy prison sentence,” the letter continued. “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, and I took it. I don’t know if I will/have succeeded, but I had hoped to make it home to you. I wish we could have lived in a world where this did not feel necessary. I wish I could have stayed for you and lived our lives together.”
Additional information in the warrants provides further details about the online Discord chat, where Robinson also admitted to killing Kirk, and where one user wrote, “Tyler killed Charlie!!!!”
Two hours before being taken into custody on the night of Sept. 11, Robinson wrote in the Discord chat, “Hey guys, I have bad news for you all,” he wrote. “It was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this.”
“im surrendering through a sheriff friend in a few moments,” he said at 7:57 p.m. from Southern Utah. “thanks for all the good times and laughs, you’ve all been so amazing, thank you all for everything.”
The documents include descriptions of Robinson’s actions on top of UVU’s Losee Center Building — which was across from Kirk’s tent where the event was taking place — where “investigators documented a shoe impression on the northeast corner rooftop,” where video surveillance shows Robinson climbed down from the building.
Investigators also said, per the documents, that Robinson left potential DNA evidence such as “fingerprints and a smeared palm print in the vicinity of the northeast corner rooftop edge of the Losee Center building where Robinson dropped off the rooftop to the ground below.”
The search warrants were requested by the Utah Bureau of Investigation following the shooting. The warrants, recently unsealed in Utah’s 4th District Court, also shared previously made public information regarding Robinson’s attempts to grab the rifle he had hidden in the bushes near the university that he allegedly used to carry out the murder. It also disclosed the texts Robinson sent to Twiggs that also confess to the killing.
The Utah County Attorney’s Office charged Robinson with seven counts, including aggravated murder. The prosecution is actively seeking the death penalty.
His next court date is scheduled for April 17, but the preliminary hearing is currently set for May 18, 19 and 21, where the prosecution is expected to have Twiggs and Robinson’s parents take the stand for testimony.