Lance Twiggs — the former lover and roommate of Tyler Robinson, the man accused of targeting Charlie Kirk — told investigators Robinson confessed and broke down in tears the day after the conservative commentator was fatally wounded.
“I just asked him in person if what he said was true the night before, and he said it was. He started crying a little bit and said he wishes he hadn’t done it,” Twiggs said in a recorded interview played Thursday during Robinson’s preliminary hearing.
“He started crying a little bit and said he wishes he hadn’t done it.”
Prosecutors displayed text messages showing Robinson allegedly took credit for the fatal September 10, 2025 incident at Utah Valley University the night it happened.
After the incident, Twiggs said he received a text from Robinson telling him to look under his keyboard. There, he found a handwritten note.
“I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it,” the note read, according to prosecutors.
Twiggs said he photographed the full-page note, which was displayed in the courtroom.
He then texted Robinson asking if he was joking.
“I am still ok my love, but am stuck in Orem for a little while longer yet,” Robinson allegedly responded. “Shouldn’t be long until I can come home, but I gotta grab my rifle still. To be honest I had hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you.”
Twiggs replied: “You weren’t the one who did it right????”
Robinson allegedly answered, “I am,” adding, “I’m sorry.”
Twiggs — who has cooperated with investigators and not been charged — also told authorities Robinson inquired about a Dremel tool “at most, a month before” the incident.
“He had said he was planning to go hunting with his family, and he asked me if we had, like, a Dremel, because he said he wanted to engrave messages on bullets,” Twiggs told prosecutor Ryan McBride in the recorded interview.
Twiggs, who noted he has gone by the name “Luna” with some people including Robinson, said the accused looked like the man on an FBI wanted poster that circulated afterward.
“They do look like Tyler Robinson,” Twiggs said, before adding, “I wouldn’t say with 100 percent certainty, just because of camera quality, but that looks like him in terms of the shoes he’s wearing, the sunglasses.”
“I don’t think I’d specifically seen him wearing that hat, but he was usually wearing a hat and the jeans,” Twiggs added of the 23-year-old accused.
During the day after the incident, Twiggs said Robinson was pacing around their apartment.
“He was walking around a lot,” Twiggs recalled, adding Robinson told him he would eventually “talk to his parents or turn himself over.”
Prosecutors are presenting evidence against Robinson so Judge Tony Graf can determine whether there is sufficient probable cause to move the case forward to trial.
Judge Graf suggested he would not make a decision by the end of this week, and scheduled another hearing for September 1, when he will listen to oral arguments from both sides.
Robinson — who has not yet entered a plea — could face the death penalty if convicted. Twiggs has since left Utah and was briefly placed under FBI protection.
The charges remain allegations. The case has not been proven in court.
🚨 WATCH: FULL video of Lance Twiggs' DAMNING testimony about accused Charlie Kirk kiIIer Tyler Robinson
It's pretty clear why the defense worked SO hard to hide this
KEY MOMENTS:
01:08 – Placed under OATH, agreeing to give testimony under penalty of perjury
01:58 -… pic.twitter.com/tUubdhC1yD— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 9, 2026
