India, Sept. 14 -- Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah resident, has been named as the man suspected of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk. He was detained on September 12 after his father recognized him in surveillance photos. His father allegedly called a family pal, who alerted the sheriff's office.

Neither the suspected gunman's political beliefs nor the cause behind the Kirk shooting were known. Police claimed that Robinson's relatives claimed he had grown "more political" in recent years.

At a Utah college event, Kirk spoke a laudatory ode to the Mormon church, which the suspected murderer himself had grown up in, just before he was shot dead, according to The Daily Mail.

The Turning Point USA's founder had been j...