Tyler Robinson, the 23-year-old leftist activist who murdered Trump supporter Charlie Kirk on September 10 of last year on a university campus, was seen laughing with his lawyer in a Utah courtroom this Monday morning while Charlie's widow, Erika, watched the hearing in tears.
Charlie’s parents, Robert and Kathryn Kirk, were also present in the courtroom. Donald Trump Jr. and his wife, Bettina Anderson, sat in the front row to support the widow and the family. Today’s hearing was held to determine whether Robinson, who is charged with aggravated murder and faces the death penalty if convicted, will go to trial for Kirk's murder.
Monday's testimony was too hard for the victim's family. Erika and Charlie's parents left the courtroom shortly after Officer Chris Bagley, the first witness called by the prosecution, began to describe the moment when the political commentator was shot and the horror unfolded.
There were security failures at the event
"I saw him go to the left... I could no longer see the right side of his body," Bagley testified in court. "Then everyone started to get up and run, a rather chaotic situation." The officer testified that after the shot he found on top of a nearby building a corner that looked like a "sniper's nest" with a clear line of sight to where Charlie was sitting.
