Tyler Robinson hearing live updates: Interview with Lance Twiggs set to be presented in court

Tyler Robinson allegedly boasted to his trans lover that the gun used to kill Charlie Kirk worked “just fine,” according to chilling text messages presented by prosecutors. Robinson expressed concern about police tracing the rifle and discussed ditching the weapon and deleting the exchange.

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Audio from the courtroom was cut for several minutes as Utah investigator Brian Davis discussed more exhibits from the prosecution.

Audio returned as Davis confirmed flying from Utah County to Robinson’s home town to take him into state custody.

The court is now on lunch break.

Prosecutors showed a text exchange between Robinson and Twiggs in which they allegedly discuss Robinson ditching the murder weapon near campus.

Robinson circled back to the scene and sat in his car for around and hour, waiting for a chance to recover the rifle, the texts allegedly states.

“I had to leave it in a bush where I changed outfits. Didn’t have time to bring it,” Robinson allegedly texted Twiggs on September 10th.

Robinson also asked Twiggs to delete the exchange, and the pair speculated on whether the rifle could be traced to Robinson’s family and if his dad would miss it on an upcoming hunting trip, the texts allegedly show.

Most of the exchange had already been released to the public, but this was the first time a witness — state investigator Brian Davis — testified to their veracity in court

Robinson rarely spoke about LGBTQ+ issues and was more interested in Trump and his policies, Lance Twiggs said near the end of his video testimony.

A state investigator then claimed Twiggs’ testimony matched an early police interview conducted on September 12, 2025.

Twiggs was asked about personal texts, Discord messages, and a handwritten note allegedly from Robinson, all sent within three days of Kirk’s death, said Brian Davis of the Utah State Bureau of Investigation.

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Twiggs said Robinson came back home and paced around their house after admitting to the killing.

At some point he asked Robinson if he had really done it, he said.

“Didn’t go into detail. I just asked him in person if what he said was true the night before and he said it was, starting crying a little bit, and he says he wishes he hadn’t done it,” Twiggs told prosecutors during the recorded interview.

“Eventually he said he would talk to his parents or turn himself over.”

Lance Twiggs, Tyler Robinson’s trans lover, testified by video recording that Robinson had asked him for a dremmel to engrave messages on bullets before Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

The court is in a brief recess as prosecutors and Robinson’s defense reach a final consensus on the redacted version of the Lance Twiggs interview.

Judge Graf has ruled that a redacted version of the interview can be broadcast, which includes references to certain text messages between Twiggs and Charlie Kirk’s accused assassin.

Erika Kirk’s lawyer made a passionate plea for transparency before Judge Graf made his final ruling on the Twiggs video.

“The Kirk family has waited 10 months for this hearing. … They have a right to see and feel what’s going on in this courtroom,” attorney Jeffrey Neiman urged.

“To be here and not to see the evidence — what’s the point of being here?”

District Judge Tony Graf finally ruled that Lance Twiggs’ interview can be broadcast in court with certain redactions.

“It is a good day when we are literally on the same page,” Graf said after hours of back-and-forth with council over the statements from Tyler Robinson’s roommate and trans lover — to whom he allegedly confessed to Charlie Kirk’s killing via text.

Robinson’s team appealed to two court cases from the 60s to argue broadcasting the video would violate Robinson’s right to not have an alleged confession televised.

Prosecutors in Utah are gearing up to show a bombshell interview with Tyler Robinson’s lover Lance Twiggs on the fourth day of a preliminary hearing against Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin.

Lawyers debated for more than an hour on Wednesday about redactions on the video, which contains second-hand statements Robinson allegedly made to Twiggs.

It also includes texts in which Robinson allegedly admitted to shooting Kirk after he fled from Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

The hearing, scheduled for 8 a.m. Mountain Time, has yet to begin.

Spectators hoping for a seat in today’s hearings are taking desperate measures — going so far as to sleep at the Provo courthouse to secure a seat in the tiny courtroom.

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The prosecution will play an interview of Lance Twiggs and law enforcement.

Twiggs’, Robinson’s lover, was granted limited immunity for his cooperation.