Mystery Terrorist: The Unknown Life and Violent Times of Illegal Border-Crosser Sidi Mohammed Abdallahi

From the Center for Immigration Studies

First Blood, Part 2

(Part 2 of 3; Read Part 1, Part 3.)

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CHICAGO, Illinois – If ever there was a magic moment for Americans to learn why Mauritanian national Sidi Mohammad Abdallahi rampaged through an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood firing a semi-automatic handgun at Jews and police, trying to rack up a body count, it was after he’d been dead a week on December 6, 2024.

“Prayers will be held over the body of the deceased” at 8:45 pm, read a post on the Chicago Mauritanian Community’s Facebook page. “Notice: Everyone is requested to come and pray for our bereaved. It is our right. Let us not forget also the virtue of a funeral, its follow-up and rewards.”

The funeral post drew several responses from the account’s 537 followers and drew one re-share.

“May God have mercy on him,” wrote Vadel Wel Belli, an active group member.

The 22-year-old Abdallahi, critically wounded then arrested by police, had hanged himself the week before while in the Cook County Jail while awaiting his eventual trial on state terrorism and other charges for conducting an October 26 shooting melee described at length in Part 1 of this series. (See First Blood: Anatomy of a Border-Crosser’s Chicago Terror Attack).

The pre-trial jailhouse suicide had made perfunctory news headlines, but any reporter who would have attended the Chicago Mauritanian Community’s publicly advertised “prayers…over the body of the deceased” and presumed burial of Abdallahi on Friday, December 6, could have potentially interviewed the people who knew him most intimately. A Facebook page that matches Abdallahi’s full name, devoid of entries other than a photo of a car, show five followers, among them some who follow the Chicago Mauritanian Community. But no reporters bothered to show up, missing what turned out to be a consequential opportunity to learn about Abdallahi’s violent path from the Mexican border to the West Rogers Park neighborhood, which he shot up during his 20-minute attack.

A Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) trip to Chicago two weeks after the funeral service, to learn what the cancelled trial might have revealed about the ground-breaking first charged terrorist attack by a border-crossing illegal immigrant, discovered a window onto Abdallahi’s world in Chicago.

A Pakistani man who parks several black hearses at what turned out to be a large Albanian mosque at the provided Facebook address, one of which displays a “Muslim Funeral Service” sign in a window, told CIS that Abdallahi had “relatives” in the area, the first known reference to that. They were the ones who accepted the body from the county Medical Examiner’s office and paid for the funeral service, he said.

The Pakistani funeral director refused to say anything more without the family’s permission, which he offered to secure for CIS. They never responded.

The Chicago Mauritanian community’s self-described leaders, many of them recent immigrants like Abdallahi, declined CIS interview requests to talk about Abdallahi, through an interlocutor who works closely with them.

And so, even the most basic information of homeland security value about Abdallahi and his path to violence, essential in helping authorities uncover violent plans by other illegal border-crossers from countries of terrorism concern like Mauritania, remains out of reach. It has already been reported that his phone and computer searches showed he was steeped in jihadist and pro-Hamas propaganda – and wore to his attack a green workman’s safety vest currently popular among pro-Hamas demonstrators. But that’s a small morsel.

A hearse at the address advertised for Sidi Mohammed Abdallahi’s December 6 funeral service.

One of the first of many rounds Abdallahi fired during the 20-minute spree went through a Jewish man’s back as he walked to synagogue and more toward police until officers critically wounded him. That white-knuckled morning of terror left Chicago’s Orthodox Jewish community deeply shaken and, with no trial coming, feeling an unrequited ache to know how this young foreign gunman was ever able to cross the U.S. southern border and attack their people with a semi-automatic pistol while screaming “Allahu Akbar.”

They still didn’t know two months later – and won’t ever, at least not from any trial.

“When they said ‘terrorism,’ it was just kind of shocking. It made us wonder if there’s much more to the story, that this guy wasn’t just some guy,” Abdallahi’s Jewish victim, who has fully recovered, told CIS in late December. “Like, what are we missing from this story? No one has given us any details or answers or anything.” (The victim spoke to CIS, in his first and only interview, on condition that his identity not be disclosed for fear of future targeting.)

“The safety piece is what’s scary,” he continued. “Like was he alone in this or was there somebody who coerced him to this? And if that’s the case, then okay, where are the rest of them and are they going to start infiltrating our neighborhood in some way? We still don’t have that answer, and that’s the scary thing.”

Many other questions hover over the incident unanswered but needed to enhance national security.

For instance, did U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) miss opportunities to detect his extremist ideology at the border or later on?

When Abdallahi crossed and passed a database check, was he ever detained and referred to the Border Patrol’s Tactical Terrorism Response Team or to ICE intelligence officers for extended terrorism-related interviews? That is supposed to happen with “special interest aliens,” who get assigned that tag if they hail from designated countries of terrorism concern like Mauritania.

According to material obtained by CIS through a Freedom of Information Act request, Border Patrol apprehended 18,260 Mauritanians (and hundreds of thousands of other special-interest aliens) who have illegally crossed the U.S. southern border from 2021 through December 2023, probably far too many for tedious direct interviews that can turn up signs of extremist beliefs.

If mistakes with Abdallahi remain unexplored, how then would the border agencies learn to interdict other potentially dangerous border-crossers already in the United States for a year or two?

Are co-conspirators who helped him or failed to report his plan still free or ruled out?

How exactly did Abdallahi, an illegal immigrant barred from obtaining a firearm in gun-restricted Chicago, get his hands on one and who might be held responsible?

What Is Known

ICE officials have confirmed that Abdallahi crossed the U.S. southern Border from Tijuana to San Diego on March 29, 2023. After a criminal and national security database check returned nothing derogatory, U.S. Border Patrol freed him on his own recognizance just as they have millions of other illegal entrants under orders from the Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security.

Most often, those millions released were given dates to voluntarily report to ICE offices in their chosen destination city to file asylum claims or seek other forms of relief from deportation.

It’s unknown whether Abdallahi reported to ICE in Chicago or what the office knew of him. CIS has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out what ICE knew of him and when, if anything, but he may have obtained work authorization because Cook County prosecutors said at his detention hearing that he worked at a Chicago Amazon warehouse, and he had possession of a car where police found his phone after the shootout.

One of many obvious signs posted inside Midwest Sporting Goods gun store and range warns customers that they must have a state permit to touch a weapon. Photo by Todd Bensman.

The Gun Mystery

The phone contained more than 100 “antisemitic and pro-Hamas” images and videos, the prosecutor said. He’d used the phone to map local synagogues, including one just a couple of blocks from where he attacked the Jewish man. And his Google search history included a gun store in the suburb of Lyons.

The Jewish victim he shot said he dearly wants to know how his assailant got the gun.

So CIS visited the Lyons gun store and shooting range that came up in one of Abdallahi’s searches, Midwest Sporting Goods, and pretty much ruled out that he obtained the firearm there. The store’s manager said detectives came around too and found that there was no record that Abdallahi held a state-required FOID card permit required to legally buy, sell, or fire any handgun in Illinois – a rule the gun store rigorously enforces to stay out of trouble. There also was no evidence that Abdallahi might have come in with a friend who had the permit, she said.

It could have been stolen and sold on the black market. Whatever the handgun’s history, the manager noted, police probably know a lot about it since they recovered it after the attack.

Home Life and Times

At least for a time, Abdallahi lived in a crowded but somewhat renovated South Chicago flop house above a taco shop shared by five other young Mauritanian immigrants who also crossed the southern border.

The apartment in a dilapidated older neighborhood pockmarked by abandoned condemned buildings consisted of three disheveled bedrooms with two men in each, a kitchen and toilet facilities. A prayer rug was visible on the floor in one room. No one seemed interested in replacing the expired batteries on two chirping smoke detectors.

Two of Abdallahi’s former roommates confirmed that Abdallahi had lived there for a time and had relatives in the area, including a “cousin” who spoke good English but that they hardly knew Abdallahi well enough to meaningfully comment. CIS could not locate the relative.

“Yeah, he lived here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,” one young Mauritanian named Abdullah, who crossed the southern border in 2023, said in broken English. Police interviewed him a couple of times. “But I’m not talking to this guy. I not see this guy. I don’t know about this.”

The apartment Abdallahi shared with other illegal Mauritanian border crossers in South Chicago. Photo by Todd Bensman.

But Abdullah was definitive in saying that Abdallahi had never served in the Mauritanian military and also was angry about Israel’s war on Gaza as many in the community are.

“Too much Palestine! America give you everything to help you. Why do you have to go catch somebody outside of Palestine?” the young man opined.

A second Facebook page registered to Abdallahi’s unique name, recently taken down, showed that he had about 30 followers, most of them in Mauritania. Interestingly, Abdallahi followed the California Highway Patrol page in El Cajon, which is near the Mexican border.

Meanwhile, no one and no government agency seem interested in anything but moving on.

The FBI Closes Its Case; Other Agencies Fall Silent

Basic information to enhance public safety may remain unknown even to the most relevant federal law enforcement agency that investigates all suspected U.S. terrorism offenses, the FBI.

In this one rare instance, the FBI appears to have substantially ceded its role as primary investigator to the Chicago Police Department and Cook County Attorney’s office, which are arguably far less equipped for complex international and national terrorism cases even though they eventually lodged a state terrorism charge.

Two days after his attack, the only peep from the FBI came in a written statement that it would work “diligently with local, state, and federal partners to provide critical resources and assistance as we learn more.” The bureau disappeared after that, steering clear of the few press conferences that local authorities staged.

In response to a more recent inquiry by CIS, the FBI now says it has closed whatever support case it had opened, since the suspect is dead, and declined CIS interview requests to rule out or in co-conspirators or foreign direction or anything else that is important to know.

“It is common for investigations to be closed in conjunction with the US Attorney’s Office if a subject dies prior to the conclusion of an investigation,” the FBI’s Chicago Public Affairs Team wrote to CIS in a January 3 email.

CIS has filed a federal Freedom of Information request to the FBI for more information and is prepared to litigate it if necessary.

The FBI’s tack here is highly unusual in the annals of obvious U.S. terror attacks, regardless of body count.

Contrast this lack of curiosity with the recent New Years Day vehicle ramming attack in New Orleans, which killed 14 plus the driver, and the so-called “cybertruck” bombing in Las Vegas, during which nobody died but the driver. Even before a full news cycle passed, news media brimmed with exhaustive reports about the life and times of a U.S.-born terrorist who carried out the ISIS-inspired New Orleans attack. One reporter even took social media followers on a video tour inside the dead terrorist’s FBI-searched Houston residence, before his victim’s bodies were even cleared from the bloody scene.

Even with Abdallahi dead and the trial cancelled, both the Chicago Police Department and the Cook County prosecutor declined CIS interview requests for interviews about the case. CIS has filed numerous FOIA requests.

Short of congressional or Trump White House intervention on behalf of transparency, the FOIAs may hold the last hope that authorities can improve processes and interdict other illegal aliens raised in countries where extremist ideologies are common and who might be predisposed to also plan mass casualty violence.

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Published on September 14, 2025

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Trish Wood is Critical

Tyler Robinson’s dad is not a cop but in construction.
The idea of a wider conspiracy is more credible today.
Discord is the platform that Robinson used. Twitch is also a gaming platform and one that hosts a great deal of inflammatory speech against MAGA and conservatives more generally.
The trans story connection from Thursday is taking off with yet another odd festishistic twist. Wait for it.

My credentials do come into play somewhat here and you deserve to know them. I worked at the highest levels of true crime investigation and reporting for many years. In cases like this, experience matters. A number of grifters have emerged to monetize this story. Including the bizarre contention that the rise of Charlie Kirk haters posting on social media is a “psy-op” which is easily debunked. They are real accounts with actual bios attached and the posters whose names are on them are being fired and punished. Demonstrably provable.

On background — our team overturned the conviction of a Nova Scotia man wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife. We uncovered evidence that Karla Homolka was more likely than Paul Bernardo to have murdered their victims. It was the highest rated crime reporting in the history of the CBC. Later, I investigated and further exposed a spate of wrongful convictions on Chicago’s South Side that send many young black men to prison for murders they didn’t commit. There are more but let’s leave it at that.

Are we being lied to? No doubt. My advice: stay away from the influencers and rage farmers. They will not make us smarter.

So what do we have? We have a narrative around Tyler Robinson which gets weirder by the minute. And we have an emerging idea around Israel that I rejected in the podcast but am curious about after reading a piece by Max Blumenthal. Kirk was turning away from the Zionist billionaires who’d helped fund TPUSA and they had started threatening him for questioning the America/Israel collaboration. Kirk was also questioning Israel/Gaza and America’s blind attachment. I apologize to Chris Bray our brilliant guest for not giving him a chance to comment on this as I am sure he has something to say. I found the Grayzone piece after we recorded.

Stick with me. I am posting here the entire Grayzone article. Please read it and comment but keep it cool. At this point — can we take anything off the table?

A Trump insider and longtime friend of Charlie Kirk tells The Grayzone how the assassinated conservative leader’s turning point on Israeli influence provoked a private backlash from Netanyahu’s allies that left him angry and afraid.

The source said anxiety spread within the Trump administration after an apparent Israeli spying operation was uncovered.

Charlie Kirk rejected an offer earlier this year from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to arrange a massive new infusion of Zionist money into his Turning Point USA (TPUSA) organization, America’s largest conservative youth association, according to a longtime friend of the slain commentator speaking on the condition of anonymity. The source told The Grayzone that the late pro-Trump influencer believed Netanyahu was trying to cow him into silence as he began to publicly question Israel’s overwhelming influence in Washington and demanded more space to criticize it.

In the weeks leading up to his September 10 assassination, Kirk had come to loathe the Israeli leader, regarding him as a “bully,” the source said. Kirk was disgusted by what he witnessed inside the Trump administration, where Netanyahu sought to personally dictate the president’s personnel decisions, and weaponized Israeli assets like billionaire donor Miriam Adelson to keep the White House firmly under its thumb.

According to Kirk’s friend, who also enjoyed access to President Donald Trump and his inner circle, Kirk strongly warned Trump last June against bombing Iran on Israel’s behalf. “Charlie was the only person who did that,” they said, recalling how Trump “barked at him” in response and angrily shut down the conversation. The source believes the incident confirmed in Kirk’s mind that the president of the United States had fallen under the control of a malign foreign power, and was leading his own country into a series of disastrous conflicts.

By the following month, Kirk had become the target of a sustained private campaign of intimidation and free-floating fury by wealthy and powerful allies of Netanyahu – figures he described in an interview as Jewish “leaders” and “stakeholders.”

“He was afraid of them,” the source emphasized.

At TPUSA, the rift with Israel widens

Kirk was 18 years old when he launched TPUSA in 2012. From its inception, his career was propelled by Zionist donors, who showered his young organization with money through neoconservative outfits like the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He repaid his wealthy backers over the years by unleashing a relentless firehose of anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic diatribes, accepting propaganda trips to Israel, and sternly shutting down nationalist forces challenging his support for Israel during TPUSA events. In the Trump era, few American gentiles had proved more valuable to the self-proclaimed Jewish state than Charlie Kirk.

But as Israel’s genocidal assault on the besieged Gaza Strip drove an unprecedented backlash within grassroots right-wing circles, where only 24% of younger Republicans now sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians, Kirk began to shift. At times, he toed the Israeli line, spreading disinformation about babies beheaded by Hamas on October 7, and denying the famine imposed on the population of Gaza. Yet he simultaneously ceded to his base, wondering aloud if Jeffrey Epstein was an Israeli intelligence asset, questioning whether the Israeli government allowed the October 7 attacks to proceed in order to advance long-term political goals, and parroting narratives familiar to his most vociferous critic on the right, streamer Nick Fuentes.

This July, at his TPUSA Student Action Summit, Kirk provided a forum for the right-wing grassroots to vent its fury about Israel’s political hammerlock on the Trump administration. There, speakers from former Fox News stalwarts Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, to the anti-Zionist Jewish comedian Dave Smith, denounced Israel’s blood-soaked assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, branded Jeffrey Epstein as an Israeli intelligence asset, and openly taunted Zionist billionaires like Bill Ackman for “getting away with scams” despite having “no actual skills.”

Following the confab, Kirk was bombarded with infuriated text messages and phone calls from Netanyahu’s wealthy allies in the US, including many who had funded TPUSA. According to his longtime friend, the Zionist donors treated Kirk with outright contempt, essentially ordering him to fall back into line.

“He was being told what you’re not allowed to do, and it was driving him crazy,” Kirk’s friend recalled. The conservative youth leader was not only alienated by the hostile nature of the interactions, but “frightened” by the backlash.

The friend’s account dovetails with those of multiple right-wing commentators with access to Kirk.

“I think, in the end, Charlie was going through a spiritual transformation,” Candace Owens, a conservative influencer who shifted decisively against Israel after October 7, reflected after her friend’s killing. “I know it, he was going through a lot. There was a lot of pressure, and it’s hard for me to watch the people who were pressuring him just say the things that they’re saying.”

She continued: “They wanted him to lose everything for changing or even slightly modifying an opinion. It’s very hurtful to me.”

Kirk appeared visibly outraged during an August 6 interview with conservative host Megyn Kelly, as he discussed the menacing messages he was receiving from pro-Israel bigwigs.

“It’s all of the sudden: ‘oh, Charlie: he’s no longer with us.’ Wait a second—what does ‘with us’ mean, exactly? I’m an American, okay? I represent this country,” he explained, before addressing the powerful Zionist interests harassing him.

“The more that you guys privately and publicly call our character into question—which is not isolated, it would be one thing if it were just one text, or two texts; it is dozens of texts—then we start to say, ‘whoa, hold the boat here,’” Kirk continued. “To be fair, some really good Jewish friends say, ‘that’s not all of us’… But these are leaders here. These are stakeholders.”

He went on to complain to Kelly, “I have less ability… to criticize the Israeli government than actual Israelis do. And that’s really, really weird.”

In one of his final interviews, conducted with Israel’s premier influencer in the United States, Ben Shapiro, Kirk once again tried to raise the issue of censorship of Israel critics.

“A friend said to me, interestingly: ‘Charlie, okay, we’ve pushed back against the media on COVID, on lockdowns, on Ukraine, on the border,’” Kirk told Shapiro on September 9. “Maybe we should also ask the question: is the media totally presenting the truth when it comes to Israel? Just a question!”

According to Kirk’s longtime friend, Kirk’s resentment of Netanyahu and the Israel lobby was spreading within Trump’s inner circle. In fact, they said, the president himself was terrified of Netanyahu’s wrath, and feared the consequences of defying him.

During the past year, the Trump insider was told by contacts in the White House that the Secret Service had caught Israeli government personnel placing electronic devices on its emergency response vehicles on two separate occasions.

While The Grayzone was unable to confirm the story with the Secret Service or White House, such an incident would not have been unprecedented. Indeed, according to a report in Politico citing three former senior US officials, a cellphone spying device was placed by Israeli agents “near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington” toward the end of Trump’s first term in 2019.

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson recounted a similar incident in his memoir, writing that his security team found a listening device in his bathroom soon after Netanyahu used his personal toilet.

The Israel-did-it theory

Kirk was killed this September 10 with a single shot fired by a sniper apparently positioned on a rooftop 200 meters away. He was shot while seated before a crowd of thousands at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah on the first leg of his American Comeback Tour. The scene of Kirk collapsing from the impact of a gunshot to his neck just as he began answering a question about transgender mass shooters was perhaps the most shockingly vivid spectacle of assassination – and certainly the most viral – in human history.

There is currently no evidence of an Israeli government role in Kirk’s assassination. However, that has not stopped thousands of social media users from speculating that the pro-Trump operative’s shifting views on the issue contributed in some way to his death. By the time of publication, over 100,000 Twitter/X users have liked a September 11 post by libertarian influencer Ian Carroll declaring about Kirk, “He was their friend. He basically dedicated his life to them. And they murdered him in front of his family. Israel just shot themselves.”

Many advancing the unsubstantiated theory have pointed to a Twitter/X post by Harrison Smith, a personality at the pro-Trump Infowars network, stating on August 13 – almost a month before Kirk’s assassination – that he was told by “someone close to Charlie Kirk that Kirk thinks Israel will kill him if he turns against Israel.”

The frenzied speculation has set off shockwaves in Tel Aviv, where Netanyahu was compelled to explicitly deny that his government killed Kirk during a September 11 interview with NewsMax.

Netanyahu and his allies bury the Kirk crisis as “big tent” collapses

That appearance was just one of several interviews and statements the Prime Minister dedicated to Kirk in the wake of his killing in an effort to frame the late conservative leader’s legacy in a uniformly pro-Israel light. The major public relations push has occurred while Netanyahu wages a military campaign on seven fronts, punctuated by a regional assassination spree that most recently reached into the heart of Qatar, a US ally.

Netanyahu first tweeted prayers for Kirk at 3:02 PM in the afternoon on September 10, minutes after news of the shooting broke. He has since authored three additional posts about Kirk, even breaking away from the Israeli war cabinet to spend the afternoon of September 11 memorializing the conservative leader on Fox News.

During that interview, Netanyahu did his best to insinuate that Israel’s enemies were responsible for murdering Kirk, despite the fact no suspect was named or in custody at the time:

“The radical Islamists and their union with the ultra-progressives—they often speak about ‘human rights,’ they speak about ‘free speech’—but they use violence to try to take down their enemies,” the Prime Minister told Harris Faulkner.

In a September 10 Twitter/X post eulogizing the conservative leader, the Israeli Prime Minister described a recent phone conversation with Kirk.

“I spoke to him only two weeks ago and invited him to Israel,” Netanyahu declared. “Sadly, that visit will not take place.”

Left unmentioned was whether Kirk declined the invitation—just as he did with the Prime Minister’s offer to reload TPUSA’s coffers with donations from his coterie of wealthy American Jewish cutouts.

At the time of publication, a 22-year-old resident of Utah has been taken into custody after supposedly confessing to killing Kirk. The public may soon learn the true motives of the alleged assassin. Perhaps they will fuel the narrative which Trump and his allies advanced in the immediate wake of the shooting – that a leftist radical was responsible, and that a wave of draconian repression must follow.

But after the shooter’s initial escape and a series of federal law enforcement mishaps, a large sector of Americans will likely never believe the official story. Nor will they ever know where Kirk’s turning point on Israel would have taken the conservative movement.

Four days before the assassination, frustration among pro-Israel commentators bubbled over in public during an Fox News interview in which Ben Shapiro launched a chilling attack on Kirk without naming him.

“The problem with a ‘big tent’ is that you may end up with many clowns inside,” Shapiro told Fox host and fellow Zionist gatekeeper Mark Levin in an apparent critique of TPUSA.

“Just because you’re saying somebody votes Republican—that doesn’t mean that they ought to be the preacher at the front of the church, they’re not the person that ought to be leading the movement, if they are spending all day criticizing the President of the United States as ‘covering up a Mossad rape ring’ or ‘being a tool of the Israelis for hitting an Iranian nuclear facility.’”

When Kirk took his usual place at the “front of the church” four days later, he was cut down by a sniper’s bullet.

Within 24 hours of Kirk’s death, Shapiro announced that he would be launching his own campus speaking tour, vowing: “We’re gonna pick up that blood stained microphone where Charlie left it.”

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END OF GRAYZONE PIECE

Back to Tyler Robinson:

Earlier there was some evidence reported by Steven Crowder and the Wall Street Journal of a trans connection based on etchings in the shell casings. That was later softened and then debunked when the actual markings were officially confirmed by the FBI. But hold on to your hats….the markings actually refer to a modern kink known as “furry”— a sad subculture which is LGBTQ adjacent in which adherents get their kicks by dressing in plush animal costumes. Andy Ngo’s extensive reporting on Antifa suggests a link between trans/furry and some of the violence that attended the BLM riots. Remember the mug shots?

Then the story got weirder. On Saturday, Fox and then the New York Post reported that the “roommate” who was working with police is actually Robinson’s romantic partner with whom he lived. Lance Twiggs identifies as trans and it was reported Twiggs is in the process of “transition.” Below is Twiggs in his furry gear.

This revelation is a full circle moment given that Kirk was in the middle of discussing trans violence when he was shot. Robinson’s family is not ruling out trans anger as a motive for the shooting. Kirk’s final words before the fatal shot.

“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” Kozak asked. While Kirk said “too many,” Kozak contended the number was five.

Kirk’s final words were a question to Kozak for clarity on the number. He asked whether that was “counting or not counting gang violence.” That’s when the shot rang out, ending the 31-year-old activist’s life.

My question: Was the shooting of Charlie Kirk a misguided gesture of love/commitment by Robinson aimed at his trans/furry boyfriend?

The story about Tyler Robinson is a compelling one but obviously we don’t know enough. Will he die in prison before a trial?

NEW-THE SECURITY ANGLE:

What is clear and it is the obvious question that no one is talking about — why was security for Kirk so apparently lax going into an event that was in hugely hostile territory. Did the TPUSA team even know about the pushback from students and that credible threats were made in the days leading up to it? This was a replay of Butler. Why no sweep of the rooftops?

Perhaps Robinson was aware of this story and petition against Kirk in the University Newspaper. Click through into the comments link to read.

Credible threats. Failed security. Multiple stories with different motives. Let’s see how this shakes out….

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Transgender Roomate of Alleged Charlie Kirk Assassin Cooperating with Investigation

Published on September 14, 2025

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From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Harold Hutchison

The man accused of assassinating Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk reportedly lives with a transgender-identifying “partner,” according to Fox News reporter Brooke Singman.

Authorities have arrested Tyler Robinson, 22, accusing him of gunning down Kirk during a TPUSA “Prove Me Wrong” event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, during which the late activist was debating attendees on a variety of topics, including transgenderism. Authorities say that communications between Robinson and the biological male who identified as a transgender female confirm Robinson as the person responsible for the assassination of Kirk, Singman posted on X Saturday.

Kirk had engaged in a debate about transgender mass shooters with Hudson Kozak shortly before being assassinated. The subject became a hot-button issue following the Aug. 27 shooting during an all-school mass held at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis that left two children dead.

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Robinson’s reported partner, previously described as a “roommate” during the Friday press conference announcing his arrest, is cooperating with authorities, the New York Post reported.

Authorities had recovered a rifle containing ammunition that was reportedly marked with left-wing messaging, from a wooded area near the site of Kirk’s fatal shooting. The phrases included “Hey fascist! Catch!” and “If you read this you are gay LMAO,” according to Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox.

Kirk founded TPUSA, an organization for conservative college and high school students, in June 2012, according to the group’s website. He also hosted “The Charlie Kirk Show,” a podcast that later became a radio show on the Salem Radio Network, according to his biography on TPUSA’s site.