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Charlie Kirk suspect is a gun-loving Trump supporter

American police have arrested a suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk. In line with the majority of US shootings, early signs are that his politics lean right.

The evidence released so far suggest Tyler Robinson could potentially be linked to a movement like the Order of Nine Angles or 764. While there are several shootings and violent events attached to these groups, they’ve so far avoided mainstream acknowledgement – almost certainly because their ideology is so much bleaker and more obscure than news sources feel comfortable explaining to their audiences.  If Robinson was a member of one of these groups, that may be about to change.

The suspected ‘groyper’ gunman

Authorities have identified the suspect as a 22-year-old man from Utah. Reportedly, Robinson’s father identified him and urged him to turn himself in. This didn’t happen, but the father told a youth pastor who subsequently called US Marshalls. One family member is said to have claimed “Robinson had become more political in recent years”.

People have found Robinson’s social media accounts online, with surfaced pictures showing his family’s interest in guns:

Investigative journalist Adam Cochran compiled a list of links between the evidence released so far and the ‘fringe right-wing groyper’ movement. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, ‘groypers‘ are a section of online neo-Nazis. ‘Groyper’ is also the name of a cartoon toad which these people switched to featuring in their memes after the creator of Pepe the Frog sued Info Wars for copyright infringement.

Images of Groyper
Groyper

If you think this sounds obscure and weird, you really have no idea what you’re about to get into.

Cochran began his thread by showing the following:


‘Transvestigating’ is when individuals investigate a person’s appearance in an attempt to reveal that they are secretly transgender. As Quispe López reported for them:

The most committed transvestigators believe a cabal of secretly trans celebrities controls the world.

Cochran continued:


The ‘Fuentes’ in question is Nick Fuentes, a prominent groyper who famously palled around with Kanye West when the rapper went on his anti-Semitism tour:

Fuentes is an out-and-out anti-Semite who has supported Trump at times but more often attacks him from the right:

Cochran continued:

Terrorgram

As noted above, this killing has hallmarks of recent shootings linked to online accelerationist movements. In a report titled “Militant Accelerationism Coalitions“, authors Deeba Shadnia, Alex Newhouse, Matt Kriner, and Arthur Bradley wrote:

Telegram has long been heavily targeted by violent far-right extremists for digital organising and community building, including for adherents to a neo-fascist strain of militant accelerationism. The so called “Terrorgram” community on the platform has been the principal point of online organising, identity building, propaganda distribution, and more.

In early 2021, two militant accelerationist coalitions emerged in the “Terrorgram” space: United Acceleration Front and National Socialist Coalition. This report provides an overview of two seemingly new formations of online networks of accelerationist and neo-fascist entities that are self-described as Atomwaffen Division (AWD) spinoffs. It also provides an understanding of how they behave online and speaks to the threats of real-world violence they pose.

Robin Westman is a recent school shooter who was connected to the 764 group, which mint described as:

a decentralised Satanic neo-Nazi transnational sextortion network, reportedly adjacent to the Order of Nine Angles, which is under FBI investigation.

The similarity is that Westman also wrote obscure messages, in this instance on gun magazines. The messages they wrote included:

  • “I’m the Woker, Baby – Why So Queerious?”
  • “RIP & TEAR”.
  • “Kill Donald Trump”.

Even if Robinson is just a base-level groyper, he won’t be the first shooter who was influenced by this movement if he’s found guilty.

What happens now?

After the shooting of Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump and his supporters essentially declared open season on everyone to the left of them:

Will they row back their comments now that we know more about the alleged shooter?

Possibly not, as Trump recently referred to the assassination attempt he survived last summer as an act of “radical left political violence”. The shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks was a registered Republican.

We’ll report on any updates as they become available.

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By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.