Tyler Robinson hearing rocked by bombshell video of trans lover Lance Twiggs’ police interview

The preliminary hearing for accused Charlie Kirk killer Tyler Robinson heard bombshell testimony from Robinson’s trans lover and roommate on Thursday.

The video was from a police interview of Lance Twiggs, 23, in April 2026 by Utah police, when he was grilled over the aftermath of Kirk’s assassination at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025. 

In the footage, Twiggs said he first met Robinson in person in 2023 when they moved in as roommates, and they began dating roughly two months later. He recalled on the morning Kirk was assassinated, Robinson left early in the morning and claimed he had to work a long shift. 

He said he didn’t hear from Robinson again until 11pm that night, when Robinson told him to look under his keyboard to find a handwritten note. The note read, ‘I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it,’ according to court filings. 

Twiggs recalled Robinson returning to their home by the next morning, and said Robinson was pacing around the home while avoiding questions about Kirk’s assassination. 

Twiggs claimed Robinson eventually admitted to the assassination, began crying and told Twiggs ‘he wishes he hadn’t done it.’

Robinson said he was going to go to his parents or turn himself in. 

Twiggs was vaulted into national infamy after prosecutors alleged that Robinson left him the confession, as well as texts about plans to hide the murder weapon. 

Authorities said Twiggs quickly cooperated with investigators and offered his DNA for testing. Twiggs also provided messages Robinson had texted in which the suspected murderer said he believed Kirk ‘spread too much hate.’ 

Robinson seen in court on Thursday moments before Twiggs’s testimony was played, appearing to wipe sweat from his brow

In his police interview shown at Thursday’s hearing, Twiggs said he was not especially interested in politics, and said he and Robinson never previously discussed Charlie Kirk before the shooting. 

He said Robinson would occasionally rant about Donald Trump and Republicans, but said the extent of their discussions about LGBTQ rights was about legislation the President was pushing. 

When asked about engravings found on bullets at the shooting scene, Twiggs said Robinson had told him he was going on a hunting trip and asked for an engraving tool for the expedition. 

Twiggs said Robinson had talked about the hunting trip in general for months, then about a month before the shooting started talking about engraving bullets.

Investigators have claimed to have found bullet casings engraved with political messages in the gun, including one reading: ‘Hey fascist! Catch!’

Prosecutors pushed to release Twiggs’ police interview video as they allege Robinson assassinated Kirk because he was upset over the influencer’s conservative political views.

Twiggs was granted limited immunity in the case, meaning the statements he made to investigators cannot be used against him by prosecutors. 

After Twiggs’ video statement to the police was played, prosecutors presented text messages allegedly sent between Robinson and Twiggs after Kirk was killed

In texts presented in court, Robinson allegedly discussed trying to get rid of the rifle used to shoot Kirk 

Robinson allegedly then discussed trying to get rid of the rifle used to shoot Kirk, writing: ‘If I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence’

The bombshell evidence was played in court Thursday with Erika Kirk in attendance 

After Twiggs’ video statement to the police was played, prosecutors presented text messages allegedly sent between Robinson and Twiggs after Kirk was killed. 

The first message shows Robinson telling Twiggs to ‘drop what you’re doing, look under my keyboard.

Twiggs replied, ‘What? You’re joking right?… You weren’t the one who did it right?’

To which Robinson allegedly replied, ‘I am, I’m sorry.’

Robinson’s message continued, ‘I had planned to grab my rifle from my drop point shortly after, but most of that side of town got locked down. 

‘It’s quiet, almost enough to get but, there’s one vehicle lingering.’ 

Robinson allegedly then discussed trying to get rid of the rifle used to shoot Kirk, writing: ‘If I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence.

‘Going to attempt to retrieve it again, hopefully they haven’t moved on. I haven’t seen anything in the news about them finding it. Will update you by midnight.’  

Twiggs then asked Robinson how long he had been planning the shooting, to which he replied: ‘A bit over a week, I believe.’

Authorities said Twiggs quickly cooperated with investigators and offered his DNA for testing, and this week prosecutors said both Twiggs’ and Robinson’s DNA were found on a towel wrapped around the murder weapon.

Investigators seen at the townhouse Twiggs and Robinson shared in St. George, Utah, the day after Charlie Kirk was assassinated 

Charlie Kirk seen moments before he was shot dead in front of a huge crowd at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025 

Robinson faces the possibility of the death penalty if convicted 

In the alleged confession note, which Twiggs confirmed finding in his interview with police, Robinson referred to him by his chosen name ‘Luna’, instead of Lance.

‘If you are reading this per my text, then I am so sorry. I left the house this morning on a mission, and set an auto text,’ the note read, per the court filings. 

‘I am likely dead, or facing a lengthy prison sentence. I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, and I took it. I don’t know if I will/have succeeded, but I had hoped to make it home to you. I wish we could have lived in a world where this did not feel necessary. 

‘I wish I could have stayed for you and lived our lives together.’

Debate over showing the video led to a lengthy back-and-forth as Robinson’s defense attempted to block Twiggs’ recorded statements and force the suspect’s former lover to testify in-person, which would have allowed him to be cross-examined. 

On Wednesday, Utah District Judge Tony Graf said he would allow the video to be played, but 15 minutes of the video would be redacted. 

It is unclear what was on the redacted portion of the footage, but Graf said he had concerns it could influence future jurors in the case. 

Graf’s decision to redact 15 minutes of the footage led to a scathing legal filing from Kirk’s widow Erika, who slammed the court for a lack of ‘transparency’ in the high-profile case.

‘To not be transparent here, to not be open, to not let the world see what happened, will create doubt and distrust in the judicial system,’ Erika Kirk’s lawyer Jeffrey Neiman said in the filing after making the same argument in court. 

Twiggs was living with Robinson in a townhouse in St. George, Utah, at the time of Kirk’s assassination. Twiggs has not been charged with any crime related to the assassination. 

Twiggs went into hiding following the assassination and was not seen for five months, until the Daily Mail tracked down the elusive roommate in Texas in February. 

The 23-year-old was reportedly kicked out of his strictly Mormon home when he was 18 over disagreements about religion, drugs and gaming, but he appeared to have reconciled with his family as he moved south to be with them.  

Bombshell footage of the police interrogation of Lance Twiggs, 23, the former roommate and lover of Charlie Kirk’s accused assassin Tyler Robinson, was played in court Thursday 

Twiggs went into hiding following the assassination and was not seen for five months, until the Daily Mail tracked down the elusive roommate in Texas in February

The 23-year-old was reportedly kicked out of his strictly Mormon home when he was 18 over disagreements over religion, drugs and gaming, but he appeared to have reconciled with his family as he moved south to be with them

Twiggs grew up in St. George, Utah, with strict Mormon parents. His father Tyler is a hot tub salesman, and his mother is an insurance broker 

Twiggs attended a high school for academically gifted teens where he excelled as a talented pianist

Robinson, 23, (seen in court in December) had attempted to force Twiggs to testify in person 

Those who knew Twiggs said at the time that they were stunned to see the quiet, video game-obsessed Utah native thrust into national infamy by the case. 

Twiggs grew up in a Mormon family in St. George, Utah, as the son of a hot tub salesman father and insurance broker mother, and attended a high school for academically gifted teens where he excelled as a talented pianist. 

Twiggs and Robinson went to high school just four miles from each other in Utah, but appeared to only cross paths after Twiggs graduated from Dixie Success Academy in 2022.

While a student at the high school, Twiggs was known as a talented pianist who performed Gershwin’s Prelude No. 1 in a recital in 2020, per The New York Post. 

His brother was also a talented musician who played Chopin at the recital, and at the time Twiggs’ mother gushed on Facebook: ‘The kids music had been like a peaceful river flowing through our home for many, many years. I feel so grateful.’

But reports say Twiggs fell out with his strictly Mormon family after he graduated and moved into a townhouse in St. George, with Robinson. It is not clear how the pair first met.

A relative told Fox News that his father kicked him out aged 18 because Twiggs ‘wasn’t being respectful’ and he was being ‘problematic.’

The relative said issues with ‘gender identity’ played a role, but ‘the real reason he was acting out was because he was using drugs and alcohol, and was addicted to gaming.’

Twiggs was a talented and academically gifted teenager, but allegedly fell on hard times after his high school graduation and was kicked out of his family home 

Twiggs is not accused of being involved in Kirk’s murder

Twiggs, seen in images he shared to social media, once wrote on Reddit that he ‘was told I was possessed by a demon’ by his family when they kicked him out aged 18

Robinson, 23, allegedly killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk in September 2025, and told Twiggs at the time he did it to stop the influencer’s ‘hate,’ prosecutors say 

The relative added that there were ‘other roommates’ in the home at various times, but they all eventually moved out until it was only Twiggs and Robinson living together.

A Reddit account reportedly belonging to Twiggs told a similar story, as he wrote: ‘Was told I was possessed by a demon and then within 30 mins kicked outta the house because I started laughing and wouldn’t go to the bishop for a blessing.

‘Later found out they just didn’t like me and were looking for a way to get me out of the house. Wasn’t even 18 at the time.’

However, the account that Twiggs became addicted to drugs was disputed by former friend Braylon Nielsen, who said Twiggs fell out with his family because he rejected their Mormon faith.

‘I loved Lance. His parents kicked him out of his house, and he lived with us. His parents never sat right with my family,’ she told the Post last year.

She described Twiggs as a ‘straight A’ student who was ‘very hardworking’ as a teenager, but his parents couldn’t accept his antagonism to their religion.

After meeting Robinson and moving in together, the pair reportedly began a romantic relationship.

It is unclear what Twiggs did for a living, with a relative saying he was ‘maintaining a job and able to pay rent,’ but he had dreams of being a professional video game player.