India, Sept. 16 -- George Zinn, a 71-year-old man who fabricated a confession to murdering conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a gathering in Utah, disclosed to police that he did it simply to deflect attention from the actual killer, according to court documents cited by The New York Post. He was arrested shortly after Kirk was shot dead last Wednesday.

Zinn, as per reports, yelled, "I shot him, now shoot me," before being led away by police in handcuffs.

According to records obtained by Fox 13, Zinn, a self-described political agitator, acknowledged during interrogation that he had not murdered Kirk but stated that he did so in order to "draw attention from the real shooter."

At a hospital, he subsequently told authorities that he ...