An attorney for the 22-year-old man charged with killing Charlie Kirk has asked a judge for more time to review the large amount of evidence before deciding if the defense will seek a preliminary hear

More than two weeks after Charlie Kirk, the conservative firebrand and close ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, his suspected killer is set to appear in court Monday – the next step on the lengthy road to a state trial.

The Utah university where Charlie Kirk was assassinated lacked several key public safety measures and practices that are standard security for events around the country.

Tyler Robinson, 22, is accused of firing the single rifle shot from a rooftop sniper's perch that took Kirk's life on September 10 while Kirk, a close ally of President Donald Trump, was addressing a crowd on a university campus in Orem, Utah.

Liberal Hunter Kozak asked Charlie Kirk's final question. Conservative Jeb Jacobi volunteers with Turning Point USA. Together, they say people who disagree must have rational conversation.

Turning Point USA’s college tour is returning to Utah for the first time since founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated earlier this month

The exception was Kirk’s widow, Erika, who said that she forgave Kirk’s killer because “it is what Christ did, and is what Charlie would do,” and that “the answer to hate is not hate.” Two days after Kirk had been shot and killed on a Utah college campus, though, she, too, had said that “the spiritual warfare is palpable.”

This year’s Virginia governor’s race will test whether outrage over Charlie Kirk's death will galvanize Gen-Z conservatives to vote.

For those who felt denigrated by his rhetoric, the bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech augured something dangerous: the mainstreaming of formerly extremist views.

If the transportation secretary was looking to calm speculation about the far-right activist’s assassination, he failed.