#kirk suspect

Here are the uncropped pics (took me so long to censor everyone lol). I believe these were posted by his cousin (?), the same girl who went to Disneyland with the Robinsons in these photos I've posted previously.

Jaida Funk, neighbor, friend, and former classmate.

Jaida has been interviewed by multiple news outlets and has repeatedly spoken about Tyler in a very positive light.

The Salt Lake Tribune (link + archive): Jaida Funk, who lives just down the street from Robinson’s parents, said she immediately recognized her longtime friend and former schoolmate when she saw his picture flash on screen from a news outlet.

She has known him since kindergarten, she said, and they attended the same schools until she left Pine View High School during her sophomore year to attend a different high school. She was surprised to learn he was a suspect in the Kirk shooting because that seemed so out of character, she said.

“He was quiet, super smart and the type of student that teachers really like because he was respectful to everyone,” Funk said. “He was not real social but he would still talk to crowds and seemed comfortable talking with everyone. I don’t know what could have happened to make him do” what he is suspected of doing.

Whenever she had a project at school, Funk added, she would gravitate to Robinson because he was so intelligent and easy to work with. And even though she liked working alone and didn’t have a lot of friends at the time, Funk said, she could always count on him.

“He had a lot of leadership qualities,” she said. “There was an energy about him in the way he spoke, treated other people and acted in general. He was very respectful and got along with everyone. He was not a problem starter.”

Funk, who now works at an area day care center, said she lost contact with Robinson a few years ago but said her younger sister was attending Dixie Technical College with him.

WKYC Channel 3 (link): "I always thought I'd see him as something like a CEO or businessman, some billionaire by 26 type thing rather than what's transpired now. Really well-rounded and just a sharp, kind, respectful individual. The type of kid that reminds the teacher they need to assign homework. He just got along with everyone. Everyone liked him. His family, just so cute, traditional, cookie-cutter type of family, like the kind of family you'd want to be in. Just the type that does the Christmas traditions and has family pictures hanging in the hallway."

AFP (link): "Tyler was always kind of quieter since we were little, but not like quiet weird. He, since kindergarten, was always confident to talk to teachers and stuff. He had kind of an inner circle that loved him and he always was able to speak to them. And always just his energy speaking to his friends and the way he treated people overall. I don't know, I think this is really unexpected. I didn't see it coming at all. He, since I met him growing up, was always a kind, respectable, genuine kid. The kind of student that teachers liked, and all this, I feel like not just to me but everyone else has come really unexpected. He was always just like the type A student, the one that got stuff done on time, the one that always did his homework, admired by like adults and always respected adults and peers and friends, authority figures and everything like that."

Tate Conrad, Boy Scouts with Tyler in middle school, Dixie Tech classmate.

Deseret News (link): Tate Conrad, also from Washington City, grew up with Robinson, and is enrolled in the same college program at Dixie Technical College in St. George. He is worried about Robinson’s family and the hate they are getting online.

Conrad is a year younger than Robinson; they met in the same Boy Scout troop in middle school.

Conrad started an electrical apprenticeship program at Dixie Tech this fall, where Robinson is in his third year.

As a kid, Conrad said Robinson was “quiet, obviously, but he was a really nice kid. He was always genuine. He wasn’t a loner — he’d be by himself, but if you reached out to him, he’d just be there, and he’d join the conversation.”

Conrad said Robinson fit in with the other Boy Scouts in their troop. “He was friends with all of us. Nobody disliked him. Nobody hated him. He was a good kid,” he said.

They both also attended Pine View High School in St. George.

When Conrad saw Robinson at Dixie Tech last week, he said, “He looked totally the same. Same old Tyler.”

“It was shocking, honestly,” Conrad said, when asked how he reacted to the news of Robinson’s arrest. “I didn’t know he was a person capable of something so violent. And it’s hard to digest, because I love Charlie Kirk, and he was an awesome figure.”

Kristin Schwiermann, neighbor and custodian at Tyler's elementary school.

The Salt Lake Tribune (link + archive): Kristin Schwiermann, who lives three doors down from the home where Robinson and his family live, said she’s known him for 16 years.

She worked at Riverside Elementary as head custodian while Robinson and at least one sibling were there. She described them as “very good kids” and a “fun, loving family.”

Schwiermann “wouldn’t have even guessed” Robinson as the alleged shooter.

“It shocks me,” she said, “because he … carried himself like he knew who he was, and he didn’t act anything like I would think somebody like that would act.”

The Los Angeles Times (link): “I’m shocked,” said Kristin Schwiermann, a 66-year-old neighbor. “That’s not the kid I knew.”

Robinson had been close to his parents and two brothers growing up, and would often go on outings camping or hunting, Schwiermann said. According to public records, both of his parents held hunting licenses.

“They’re close, hardworking and smart,” she said.

Robinson attended Riverside Elementary, about a half-mile away from the family home, and where Schwiermann also worked as head custodian.

“He was quiet, but he had friends in school, and he never caused problems,” Schwiermann said.

He had been regularly active in the church when he was a child, but she said he attended less as he grew older.

He graduated from Pine View High School in St. George in 2021, and Schwiermann described him as bright and good with his schoolwork, which helped him earn a scholarship.

KSL News Utah (link): "What I know about Tyler is he was always very quiet. He was very smart. He had just a real mellow personality, never caused any problems. He was smart and he kept to himself. I don't know who his friends were as of now."

"I'm sure everybody in the neighborhood's shocked because most of these people have been here forever and and know him as that kind of kid I did. I feel for his mom. I love Amber. She's a great mom and [Tyler] has a great dad."

Jade Ruybal, friend and former classmate.

The Salt Lake Tribune (link + archive): Jade Ruybal was in the same graduating class as Robinson at Pine View High School.

In an interview via text message, she said she and Robinson shared a few classes together — including band, language arts and math — and were friends, but they stopped talking after graduation.

She remembers Robinson in high school as someone who was “really smart, always had good grades and funny. Always there when you needed him to be.”

Processing the news of Robinson’s arrest, she said, has been “surreal.” Ruybal said Robinson could be “a bit odd” or “nerdy” at times, and that “he’d just know random things.”

“He was the quiet kid if you didn’t know him,” Ruybal wrote. “But at least to me I thought he was an amazing friend."

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I am not interested in true crime. I use true crime related tags because I can reach a larger audience that way, but I don’t consider myself part of the community (not to put down anyone’s interests here). I see this particular case, as with the Mangione case, as a potential political assassination or federal conspiracy that is distinct from the baseness of murdering innocent civilians, shooting up a school or a church. You are blatantly misconstruing my intentions. If you think my blog is a “pseudo-shrine” simply because I post photos of him—neglecting my frequent posts about legal updates, details about the case etc—then I don’t know what to tell you. I have never engaged in any fetishistic behaviors, I have never written fanfiction about him, I have never suggested that his alleged crime should be emulated.

This is a fucking Tumblr blog. You are on Tumblr. How exactly am I supposed to uphold journalistic integrity here? In fact I’m always consistent about citing sources, linking to news articles and sites unless the info is from a private source, which of course I’m not going to post and dox his family members. I take care to block out the names and faces of anyone who hasn’t been publicly named. Is what I’m doing that different from what investigative journalists published when his identity was revealed? If it’s a less reliable right-wing source I make sure to point out my reservations. This case has been receiving much more attention from right-wing media, and while I despise their agendas and question their credibility, they are some of the only outlets interviewing legitimate sources (such as a family friend of Tyler’s roommate) and providing new updates.

Will I be regretting this in a decade? Really? Maybe you should fuck off with your concern trolling, more like. This blog is something I maintain because I’m interested in pursuing justice for Tyler and his family and friends. Nothing more. I have a life and I’m barely on here as it is except to post once a day. As a matter of fact, I’d be posting fewer photos of him if I had more time to write up my thoughts on the case. I wouldn’t even have started this blog if it weren’t for the fact that literally no other young leftists care about him, or have organized in the way LM’s supporters have. So no, I don’t think I’ll be regretting posting about the suspect in one of the most viral, internationally prominent, and politically significant murders of the past few years, lmfao.

Didn’t want to engage with a bunch of blue collar Utahn conservatives. Ok, we’re just going to imply he was a violent antifa. Bro was probably listening to the Minecraft soundtrack or some shit

Making fun of physical tics is ok ofc.

If it means anything, I don’t see him clenching his fists in that 2022 bodycam footage? He just has his thumbs in his pockets.

Wait, so he’d left that contractor in 2023, but was still working for the client company?

FWIW I did check to see if the companies are real. They are, but most of the reviews are old. Which I think is typical of these businesses to be fair.

If Tyler started his apprenticeship program in Sept 2023 (he was a third-year student as of this year) and started working at this company around that time, was still there after Black Friday (late Nov), and apparently left late that year, that means his coworkers worked with him for three months at most, maybe not even full-time. Hardly people who knew him that well.

They barely ever talked but when this happens he casually calls Tyler? Like “hey so you were a total weirdo ig but did you kill charlie??”