Retired FBI Special Agent Bobby Chacon said on Newsmax Saturday that the accused gunman in the Charlie Kirk assassination began a troubling spiral after a brief stint at Utah Valley University, where he abruptly abandoned a prestigious scholarship before retreating into online extremism.
Chacon, speaking on “America Right Now,” said the background of Tyler Robinson, 22, showed no obvious signs of instability before he attended the school.
“He comes from a presumably normal family,” Chacon said. “His dad’s fairly conservative. His family is, you know, middle-class American family. No issues there. But he’s a smart kid. He gets like the top scholarship to [a] university in Utah to study engineering, which is a difficult field. And he goes and he spends one semester there.”
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