President Donald Trump is being held in custody in the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump said on “Fox & Friends” Friday morning.
“I think we’re in custody with a high degree of certainty,” Trump said.
He later added, “It could change, but the fact is that we have someone we think is the person we are looking for.”
Trump said he was told that someone was in custody just five minutes before it aired for a booked interview.
“Essentially, someone very close to him attracted him,” Trump said.
Trump said the suspect’s father went to authorities to convince his son. “This is it,” the president said.
Law enforcement has not yet confirmed or provided details of the arrest.
In an interview, Trump repeatedly said that shooters should be sentenced to death.
“In Utah, you were sentenced to death, there was a good governor there and I came to know him,” Trump said of Gov. Spencer Cox. “The governor intended to be the death penalty in this case, and he should be.”
In the latest video of the suspect, played at a press conference with state and federal officials on Thursday evening, you can see authorities fire deadly shots and climbing up from the roof of a building on the Utah Valley University campus that they believe they fled the scene.
The FBI said it offers a reward of up to $100,000 for information that leads to identification and arrest of the person responsible for Kirk’s murder.
Utah officials released photos of people interested in filming on Thursday. There, you can see him walking up the stairs to the top of the building where the film was taken while carrying a black backpack and wearing a shirt that looked like printed American flags.
So far, authorities have received over 7,000 tips and leads and have completed around 200 interviews, Cox said Thursday.
In the shooter’s manhunt, officials said Thursday they were working “around the clock” to find people of interest they thought were in college.
The FBI also said Thursday it recovered what is believed to be a weapon used in lethal shooting. According to Salt Lake City FBI Special Agent in charge of Robert Balls, “a “strong bolt-action rifle” was recovered in a wooded area near the location where the shooting took place.
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