Patel says FBI investigating 'possibility of accomplices' in Kirk shooting
Source: ABC News
September 21, 2025, 6:39 PM
During Charlie Kirk's memorial service on Sunday, FBI Director Kash Patel posted an update on the investigation of Kirk's assassination, saying the FBI is "pursuing every lead." Tyler Robinson, 22, was arrested and charged with Kirk's murder, but Patel said the FBI is looking into the "possibility of accomplices."
"We are meticulously investigating theories and questions, including the location from where the shot was taken, the possibility of accomplices, the text message confession and related conversations, Discord chats, the angle of the shot and bullet impact, how the weapon was transported, hand gestures observed as potential 'signals' near Charlie at the time of his assassination, and visitors to the alleged shooter's residence in the hours and days leading up to September 10, 2025," Patel said in a post on X.
Patel made similar assertions during two days of House and Senate oversight hearings last week.
The online messaging platform Discord confirmed reports that about two hours before Robinson was taken into custody, he allegedly posted messages to a small group of friends on the platform that said, "Hey guys, I have bad news for you all
It was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this."
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markodochartaigh
(4,181 posts)Seriously though the guy in the black shirt with the hand signals and the guy in the white shirt with the camera seem odd.
JohnnyRingo
(20,179 posts)I don't trust much of what Patel says. We'll see the evidence.
no_hypocrisy
(53,216 posts)AZJonnie
(1,672 posts)His accomplices were "Shifty" Schiff, AOC, Nancy Pelosi, Kamalamaladingdong, in conjunction with Dr. Fauci, a clandestine gaggle of Haitian Immigrants, MS-13 members, RuPaul, Rosie O'Donnell, and the entire cast and production crew of 60 Minutes?
Botany
(75,389 posts)This crosses every line. He is not qualified for the position he holds.
Btw the DUer in this thread had it exactly right with this:
MO: Keep looking until you can pin it on a Democrat.
berniesandersmittens
(12,662 posts)speak about matters currently under investigation.
This whole admin is corrupt, from the top to the bottom.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,234 posts)... and to any MAGAt lurkers, "feckless" has nothing to do with not being able to fornicate.
travelingthrulife
(3,370 posts)The MAGA shooter seems like he came from wealth. Can't have their lives upset.
Botany
(75,389 posts)Kirk = Jesus = Trump.
Seig Heil mit Herr Miller not a Goebbels like speech but exactly a Goebbels speech.
Irish_Dem
(75,558 posts)Walleye
(42,645 posts)Somebody should take a look to see whos making so much money on this killing
PSPS
(14,973 posts)Walleye
(42,645 posts)3Hotdogs
(14,613 posts)Jack Smi - aw fuck it.
Just take a picture of Congress from the speaker's platform. Anyone on the left side of the floor, indict the fucke
Wait.
Why even go through the bother of a grand jury?
travelingthrulife
(3,370 posts)marble falls
(68,738 posts)
Lonestarblue
(12,949 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,425 posts)In other words, they don't have anything. Pretty sure any murder investigation includes looking into possible accomplices.
BumRushDaShow
(160,911 posts)
Prairie Gates
(6,367 posts)They take something completely ordinary, and then punch it up as if they're doing something remarkable.
Every murder investigation will do at least a cursory examination to determine whether there are accomplices. I mean, duh. Here, they punch up that utterly ordinary task with the words you identified: "We are meticulously investigating theories and questions..."
This is essentially corporate bullshit coming out of the FBI director. He's saying almost nothing, as you correctly state. Good post!
NYC Liberal
(20,425 posts)Im guessing the trans roommate (if thats true) had absolutely nothing to do with it and had no knowledge. Otherwise you can be damn sure they would be shouting about it from the rooftops.
Now they need something else. My guess is all the evidence points to the shooter being some flavor of right-wing, so we will probably stop hearing much more about the whole thing soon. The guy will be tried and convicted and rot in prison.
azureblue
(2,567 posts)to try to rebuild his ruined reputation. He has nothing to go on and no brain to go on with. So he will lie and try to create a "Bad" Democrat out of thin air. Watch.. Then it will backfire on him..
Martin68
(26,519 posts)vanlassie
(6,148 posts)underpants
(193,278 posts)Ive seen all the crazy what ifs mentioned by him on X and Facebook. More crazy below.
The almost certainly shooter is a Groyper. Follower of Nick Fuentes, bitter rival of Kirks. Fuentes came out and basically admitted it the best night saying any of his followers who took up arms against rivals would be disowned.
All the language etched on the rounds was immediately recognized by people who watch these groups as part of the canon and dogma of Groypers.
Are you ready?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220662720
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(129,159 posts)BumRushDaShow
(160,911 posts)find where Jimmy Hoffa's body is. Geraldo Rivera certainly couldn't find it on his own!!11!!11
Ocelot II
(127,482 posts)If he can find accomplices or coconspirators who participated in planning the shooting using the Internet, which is an instrumentality of interstate commerce, he can prosecute Robinson in federal court. This would not take the case away from Utah, since there can be parallel prosecutions (though the outcome, the death penalty, would be the same in either case). But Patel stepped pretty hard on his dick during the initial investigation, and he probably figures that if the feds can take the lead in the prosecution he might look less of a putz.
underpants
(193,278 posts)The language is all the same. Theres a pic of him doing a stance thats basically a Groyper gang sign.
I took Kimmels
.anyone but them was alluding to that.
Youre right he has to find something outside of Utah but its going to take some serious control. So far Utah has appeared to be as insular as stereotyped. Kirk is the savior of distraction but theres always a time to get to the next story. Jesus they are ALL in on Kirk. Its like the Epstein files, they got in waste deep and cant get out.
Ocelot II
(127,482 posts)even though he never left Minnesota, because he had used the Internet, US mail and GPS to plan the murder and to stalk the victims (stalking using instrumentalities of interstate commerce for the purpose of inflicting fear, harm or death is a federal crime), and for using a firearm in connection with that federal crime. I think Patel is looking for a similar nexus. (Boelter is also being prosecuted on murder and attempted murder charges in Minnesota, which means he can't be pardoned.)
LuvLoogie
(8,285 posts)The chat member said, and I quote. "Sick! Guys, I have to go walk my dog."
Now everyone knows that "Sick." means "Cool" or "Awesome" in today's lingo. And going to walk your dog when a human has just been brutally murdered suggests more concern for an animals comfort than the sanctity of human life. Is this a member of that radical leftist group PETA?
Karoline Leavitt the next day. " We know that one of the ring leaders was a possible member of PETA and other leftist groups like Antifa."
johnnyfins
(2,975 posts)Epstein cover. Watch...
Wiz Imp
(7,547 posts)If that's true, then why wasn't it included in the transcript in the charging document?
LudwigPastorius
(13,492 posts)What is this, the Federal Bureau of QAnon?
I bet Patel has already reached the conclusion that the trans roommate, in collaboration with George Soros, is guilty...and now he just needs to work backward and 'find' the evidence.