A former high school friend of Charlie Kirk’s assassin, Tyler Robinson, described him as “pretty left on everything” and said he was the “only member of his family that was really leftist.”
“The rest of his family was very hard Republican,” the friend said in a phone interview Friday, asking to remain anonymous, The Guardian reported.
The friend said Robinson’s political views became more extreme around his sophomore year. “He would always just be ranting and arguing about them,” the friend said.
They recalled spending time together playing video games and noted that the bullet engraving with the arrows was a reference to Helldivers 2. The friend explained that the arrows specifically pointed to “calling in a big bomb that exists” in the game “called the 500 kilogram.”
