By admin 
Authorities in Utah are declining to name the romantic partner who exchanged messages with the man charged with assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk, even as widely shared reports identify the partner as a 22-year-old transgender person who has left the couple’s St. George townhouse and is now in an undisclosed location.
Charging documents and statements released by prosecutors say Tyler Robinson, 22, texted his partner in the hours after the Sept. 10 shooting and acknowledged he was the gunman, instructed the partner to retrieve a note he had hidden, and later urged the partner to delete their messages and keep quiet, conduct that is reflected in a witness-tampering count among the seven charges Robinson faces.
Prosecutors and police have not said the partner is suspected of any crime, and officials have credited the partner with sharing information that investigators say forms part of a “mountain of evidence” in the case.
The public uncertainty over the partner’s whereabouts arose after neighbors in St. George told reporters they had not seen the person return to the $1,800-a-month townhouse the pair shared and observed mail piling up.
The New York Post, citing interviews with residents and people who know the partner, reported that the individual—identified in those accounts as Lance Twiggs—“fled” the residence following Robinson’s arrest and is “in a secure and undisclosed location,” a characterization echoed by other outlets that summarized the tabloid’s reporting.
Police have not announced a missing-person case, and there has been no official bulletin seeking public assistance to find the partner. The accounts emphasize that the person is not charged, is cooperating with investigators, and moved away from the area as attention and tensions intensified after Kirk’s killing.
Court filings and officials’ briefings provide the most concrete timeline of the partner’s interactions with Robinson. In a text exchange cited by prosecutors, Robinson told the partner to look under his keyboard at their home near St. George. The partner found a note that read, “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.” When the partner responded with disbelief and asked if Robinson was the shooter, Robinson replied, “I am, I’m sorry.”
A separate message quoted in the charging narrative shows Robinson writing, “I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.” Investigators say Robinson also wrote that he had spent more than a week planning the attack, which prosecutors allege was carried out with a bolt-action rifle from a rooftop overlooking an outdoor event at Utah Valley University where Kirk was speaking to an estimated 3,000 people.
Authorities say Robinson left the rifle and clothing nearby and texted the partner about a “drop point,” then attempted to persuade the partner to delete messages and avoid talking to police.
Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray said the partner did not go to law enforcement during the manhunt that followed the shooting; Robinson was arrested the next night after his parents recognized him in a photo released by authorities and helped arrange his surrender.
The charging documents state that DNA on the weapon’s trigger matched Robinson. Prosecutors have charged him with aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, obstruction of justice, two counts of witness tampering, and committing a violent offense in the presence of a child, and have announced they will seek the death penalty. A judge has ordered Robinson held without bond pending further proceedings.
The partner’s identity does not appear in the charging documents made public, and officials have referred to the person only as a roommate and romantic partner—describing the partner as transgender—while avoiding personally identifying details.
Newsweek, citing officials and reporting from the first week of the investigation, said the partner’s name is Lance Twiggs and relayed social-media images and posts attributed to the same individual.
The governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, told CNN that the roommate was a “romantic partner” and said authorities had interviewed the person, who was cooperating. Officials have not alleged that the partner knew of the plan in advance.
Several outlets that have published the name say the partner had lived with Robinson in St. George and left after the shooting and arrest, with neighbors providing the only on-the-ground visibility into the townhouse’s status in the days since.
The New York Post quoted people familiar with the partner as saying the individual was moved for safety reasons and has remained in contact with investigators. A follow-up report asserted that the person’s “current whereabouts are unknown” publicly but reiterated that there are no charges and that the partner has been cooperating with law enforcement.
None of the reports purport to show a police attempt to locate the partner; rather, the picture that emerges is of a witness who is out of public view and either relocated or voluntarily staying at an undisclosed address while the case is pending.
The messages between Robinson and the partner, along with the recovered note, are among the materials prosecutors say tie the suspect to the ambush shooting that killed Kirk. In addition to the quoted exchanges, prosecutors have said in court that Robinson wrote to the partner, “To be honest I had hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age.
I am sorry to involve you,” and described obstacles he perceived as police moved in on the crime scene. Officials say the rifle used in the attack had belonged to Robinson’s grandfather. Robinson made an initial video appearance before a judge on Sept. 16 and spoke only to confirm his name. His next hearing is scheduled for Sept. 29, and the county has appointed a capital-qualified defense lawyer to represent him.
Investigators and prosecutors have avoided stating a definitive motive, saying that will be a matter for trial. However, in the same charging narrative that recounts the partner’s text messages, Gray said Robinson told the partner he had “enough of [Kirk’s] hatred.”
Authorities also have said Robinson tried to persuade the partner to destroy the record of their messages, an allegation that forms the basis for the witness-tampering counts. The case file excerpt released publicly does not attribute any criminal conduct to the partner and, in public comments, officials have thanked those close to Robinson for sharing information, including family members who recognized him in an image circulated during the manhunt.
The focus on the partner intensified as memorials for Kirk drew national political figures and as debate erupted over proof of motive and the handling of the case. In that climate, outlets far beyond Utah picked up the New York Post’s reporting that neighbors had not seen the partner and that mail had accumulated at the address the couple shared.
The Hindustan Times and The Economic Times summarized those accounts and repeated the claim that the person had “left” or “fled” the townhouse, while adding that authorities regard the partner as a cooperating witness. Neither outlet cited an official statement declaring the partner missing, and neither suggested that police were seeking public help to locate the person.
News organizations have reported that prosecutors intend to present the partner’s messages and the hidden note as central evidence. Time magazine, summarizing the charging documents, quoted the instruction “Drop what you’re doing.
Look under my keyboard,” and the partner’s immediate response: “What?????????????? You’re joking, right????” PBS NewsHour similarly reported that investigators say Robinson texted his partner to look under the keyboard after firing a single fatal shot from a rooftop. Those filings and briefings, rather than public statements from or about the partner, form the backbone of the record now moving into court.
Robinson’s case has moved quickly to a capital track. Utah prosecutors said last week they would seek the death penalty, citing what they called the calculated, public nature of the killing and its political context.
ABC News reported Wednesday that a defense attorney with capital experience has been appointed for Robinson and that he is being held without bond. Robinson has pleaded not guilty, and a court has scheduled additional procedural hearings while jailers keep him under heightened supervision. Officials have said they do not have a timeline for changing his housing status.
Kirk, 31, the founder of Turning Point USA, was shot at close to 7 p.m. local time on Sept. 10 while fielding questions from students at Utah Valley University’s outdoor plaza.
He died of a single gunshot wound to the neck. Investigators say the shooter fired once from a university rooftop roughly 350 feet away, fled, then discarded the rifle and clothing before communicating with the partner. Prosecutors say Robinson later told his parents he intended to kill himself; they helped arrange his surrender to a retired sheriff’s deputy, who in turn delivered him to law enforcement. Authorities announced the arrest the following night.
Within the case narrative, the partner’s role remains that of recipient and later provider of evidence: the person who received messages and retrieved a note, then turned over the exchanges to police once contacted by investigators.
Officials have not suggested the partner participated in planning or had prior knowledge of the attack, and prosecutors have not charged the partner with a crime. As of Thursday, there has been no official request seeking the public’s help to locate the individual. In public reports, the person’s absence from the St. George residence is explained alternately as relocation for safety and as a reluctance to return while the case draws intense public attention; both framings derive from interviews with neighbors and friends, not from law enforcement alerts.
As the proceedings advance, prosecutors are expected to rely heavily on the partner’s texts, the hidden note, DNA from the weapon, and surveillance or digital records they say place Robinson at the scene and trace his movements afterward.
The partner’s status—as a cooperating witness whose identity remains redacted in official filings—underscores the unusual public scrutiny around a non-charged individual linked to a high-profile defendant. The record available to the public so far, through court filings and law-enforcement briefings, shows the partner neither arrested nor sought by police, while reports citing neighbors and acquaintances say the person has left the shared home and is staying out of public view.
The contrast between official silence about identity and the spread of a name and biography in media coverage has fed speculation, but investigators have kept the emphasis on the messages, the note, and the physical evidence they say connects Robinson to the fatal shot.
The next formal update is expected at Robinson’s Sept. 29 hearing. Until then, officials have given no indication that the partner’s status will change, and have continued to frame the person as a cooperating witness.
In the only detailed public account of the communications between the two, prosecutors quote the partner reading a single-sentence note that begins “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk,” followed by the partner’s stunned reply and Robinson’s short admission: “I am, I’m sorry.” Whatever the partner’s current location, those words—paired with the physical and digital traces investigators say they have collected—will be among the most scrutinized exhibits when a jury is eventually asked to weigh the state’s case.