{"id":15252,"date":"2025-09-30T15:37:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=15252"},"modified":"2025-09-30T15:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:37:42","slug":"old-man-who-falsely-claimed-he-shot-kirk-wanted-to-help-shooter-escape-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=15252","title":{"rendered":"Old Man Who Falsely Claimed He Shot Kirk Wanted To Help Shooter Escape: Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>A known political activist who falsely claimed that he shot Charlie Kirk while at the event for the conservative star told police that he was doing it to \u201cdraw attention away from the real shooter.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\">\n<div id=\"usaunfiltered24.com_responsive_1\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div 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He has been arrested for trespassing at film festivals, protests, and political meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost every political event you can think of, there was always George somewhere in the background, listening,\u201d Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill told the Salt Lake Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a person who can be odd, and has those kinds of sometimes odd behavior challenges,\u201d said Gill, who has prosecuted Zinn several times. \u201cBut by and large, he\u2019s more of a gadfly than anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Zinn spent a year in jail in 2013 for making threats to bomb the Salt Lake City Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there are no available documents suggesting a connection between Zinn and Tyler Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities confirmed that Tyler Robinson, the suspect in jail for the murder of Charlie Kirk, is being placed under \u201cspecial watch\u201d until he has a mental health evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson was caught after being\u00a0on the run for 33 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson\u2019s father convinced Tyler to turn himself in. A law enforcement source told Fox News that he told the FBI that he recognized his son from surveillance video images that the FBI had shared during the manhunt.<\/p>\n<p>The person told Fox News Digital that Robinson told his father he was going to kill himself when he got there. Sources told Fox News Digital that the dad talked to a preacher whom the family knew before he turned in his son.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning, Utah Gov. Brian Cox told ABC News that Robinson was not cooperating with police while he was in jail.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said that Robinson\u2019s family members and his romantic partner, a man who is transitioning from male to female, are cooperating with authorities.<\/p>\n<p>He added that those who know the 22-year-old say he was \u201cdeeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FBI Director Kash Patel detailed the contents of a text message exchange between the suspected assassin of Charlie Kirk and a close friend.<\/p>\n<p>In the messages, the killer indicated he had a chance to \u201ctake out Charlie Kirk\u201d and that he was \u201cgoing to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patel also revealed that DNA found on a screwdriver left on the roof of Utah Valley University and the towel wrapped around the weapon found near the site of the Kirk attack has matched Robinson.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A known political activist who falsely claimed that he shot Charlie Kirk while at the event for the conservative star told police that he was doing it to \u201cdraw attention &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15254,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252\/revisions\/15254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}