Trump confirms Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooter in custody

U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed that the suspected assassin of conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk is now in custody.

Speaking live on Fox & Friends Friday morning, Trump said with “a high degree of certainty” that law enforcement had caught the man believed to have gunned down Kirk during a college campus event in Utah two days ago.

According to Trump, the breakthrough came after “somebody very close” to the suspect tipped off authorities. He revealed that a minister, working with a U.S. Marshal, played a key role in persuading the alleged shooter to surrender  with the suspect’s father also urging him to turn himself in.

Though the President avoided going into full details ahead of an official Department of Justice and FBI briefing, he hinted that more would be made public later Friday.

The development comes as the nation still reels from the shocking killing of Kirk, a conservative luminary, whose sudden death has sparked mourning across right-wing circles.

Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, had to cancel their planned Ground Zero memorial attendance in New York. Instead, they joined Kirk’s grieving family in Salt Lake City, carrying his casket aboard Air Force Two back to Arizona.

Trump, who attended the September 11 Yankees remembrance game in New York on Thursday, made the rare in-studio TV appearance Friday before returning to Washington.