Grandma of Charlie Kirk’s ‘assassin’ breaks silence to reveal why the FBI MUST have the wrong man

The 22-year-old university student accused of assassinating MAGA firebrand Charlie Kirk grew up in a staunchly Republican, Trump-backing family, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Breaking her silence on Friday, Tyler Robinson’s grandmother Debbie Robinson, 69, said she is stunned by the charges against her grandson, describing him as a quiet, reserved young man who ‘never’ spoke about politics, despite his father’s staunch Trump support.

‘My son, his dad, is a Republican for Trump,’ Debbie, who also lives in Washington, Utah, told the Daily Mail.

‘[Tyler] is the shyest person,’ she added. ‘He has never, ever spoke politics to me at all.

‘Most of my family members are Republican. I don’t know any single one who’s a Democrat.

‘I’m just so confused.’

Law enforcement sources told the Daily Mail that Robinson was turned into police by his father, Matt Robinson, who is part of a family-owned construction company.

Debbie said her son hasn’t answered her calls since the news broke on Robinson’s identity as the suspect in Kirk’s assassination.

She insisted there was no way her grandson could be involved, claiming she had never even known him to touch a gun, let alone own one.

‘I don’t think he ever shot a gun, to tell you the truth,’ she said. ‘He doesn’t hunt, he’s never liked anything like that. I know he doesn’t own any guns.

‘There’s just no way he could have been that good of a shot.’

She also said she never heard of the 22-year-old alleged killer having mental health issues.

‘He’s a wonderful child,’ she said. ‘There is no way that he could have done anything like that. I would cross my heart and promise that there was absolutely no way. He has never, ever gotten in trouble in his life. He’s just a very shy, good kid.’

‘There’s no way he could be violent,’ she said. ‘There’s absolutely no way that he did that.’

Debbie also revealed that Robinson works in St. George and that she had no idea that he was going to Kirk’s event.

Chalking it up to a possible case of ‘mistaken identity or something’, she emphasized she believed Robinson couldn’t be responsible for Kirk’s murder.

‘I’ve watched that child grow up and I can’t imagine that it would ever, ever, ever be him. And I’m not just saying that as his grandma. It’s just knowing him as I do,’ Debbie told the Daily Mail.

However, she did express her heartbreak for the MAGA influencer’s family, despite not knowing about him before Wednesday’s shooting.

‘I’ve never heard of him ever, in my life, until I started seeing all this craziness going on,’ Debbie said. ‘I was sad, very sad for the wife. I read a bunch about it.’

But despite her insistence that her grandson wasn’t involved in politics, officials said he had become more political in recent years.

‘In the conversation with another family member, Robinson mentioned Charlie Kirk was coming to UVU. They talked about why they didn’t like him and the viewpoints that he had,’ the governor said.

The suspect reportedly talked about disliking Kirk at a recent dinner with family, and mentioned the conservative was coming to Utah, authorities said.

Robinson allegedly said at the dinner that ‘Kirk was full of hate and spreading hate’.

Investigators also interviewed Robinson’s roommate, who said he made a joke alluding to the shooting on Discord.

The roommate showed authorities several messages allegedly from Robinson that mentioned engraved bullets and discussed retrieving a rifle from a drop point.

His mother, Amber Robinson, who is also a registered Republican according to public records, works for Intermountain Support Coordination Services, a company contracted by the state of Utah to help disabled people receive care.

Robinson was briefly a student at Utah State University on a scholarship, insiders confirmed to the Daily Mail.

He currently was a third-year student at the electrical apprenticeship program at Dixie Technical College in St. George, Utah, the school confirmed.

The family’s social media profiles show Robinson, who has two younger brothers, often enjoying family vacations and sharing smiling selfies, including one of his mother celebrating her ‘genius’ son getting into college.

Robinson was taken into custody around 11pm local time in southern Utah on Thursday night. He lives in a $600,000 six-bedroom home in Washington, Utah – about 260 miles south of Kirk’s assassination in Orem.

Officials have yet to confirm a motive for the assassination.

Authorities said at a press conference on Thursday night that Robinson will face the death penalty if convicted.

Robinson’s family’s support for President Trump could be seen in photos posted to his mother’s social media in 2017, where he was seen wearing a costume of the president for Halloween.

Robinson’s arrest comes after a manhunt for the suspect stretched to over a day and a half, during which officials released surveillance showing a figure on top of a roof leaping from a building and sprinting into a nearby neighborhood after Kirk was shot from around 200 yards away

Images from Robinson’s childhood show him with firearms, even posing with an M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun, undermining his grandmother’s claims of him not being around guns.

Robinson’s arrest was revealed by Trump on Fox News, who said ‘someone very close’ to the fugitive gave him up after a day and a half manhunt, during which authorities had offered a $100,000 reward.

Surveillance footage showed a figure on a rooftop leaping from a building and sprinting into a nearby neighborhood after Kirk was shot from roughly 200 yards away.

Bullet casings discovered by investigators had several inscriptions engraved on them, Cox said. The casing that had been fired read: ‘notices bulges OWO what’s this?’

Cox said there were three unfired casings.

One read, ‘hey fascist! catch!’ with an up arrow symbol, right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols.

Another one read: ‘oh bella ciao bella ciao bella ciao ciao ciao,’ Cox said.

The third fired casing read: ‘if you read this you are gay lmao.’