Newly surfaced audio of Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer shows 22-year-old Tyler Robinson joking and laughing with friends during a video game livestream — a chilling contrast to the confession prosecutors say he later made about killing the Turning Point USA founder.
The video, originally posted to YouTube years ago and later deleted, has since been recovered. It captures Robinson, then a teenager, playing the popular game Minecraft under the online handle “Craftin.” His friends described him as intense, eccentric, and even disturbing.
At one point in the recording, Robinson joked after another player misspelled his gamertag.
“Who put a G at the end of my name? What are you, a psychopath?” he asked, before celebrating an accomplishment in the game.
The video, first reported by the Daily Mail, comes as prosecutors build a case against Robinson. Authorities say he confessed to fatally shooting Kirk, 31, with a hunting rifle during a rally at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. The murder shocked the political world and left Turning Point USA scrambling to regroup after the loss of its founder.
Online accounts tied to Robinson show a disturbing digital trail. Investigators linked his gaming profile to explicit material in niche communities, including pornography centered on “furries” — a subculture where participants dress in animal costumes and often sexualize the imagery.
On Steam, Robinson’s account was associated with the game “Furry Shades of Gay,” which advertises itself as a graphic title focused on “love, queer relationships, hot gay sex and slapstick humor.” Robinson reportedly played the game enough to unlock an uncommon sticker depicting a cat dressed in a maid’s outfit.
Friends from high school told reporters that Robinson regularly used the online name “craftin247” not only for games but also while visiting pornography sites. That same handle appears on FurAffinity, a website devoted to furry content, where it was recorded as “recently watching” the work of artist RedRusker.
The recovered video, uploaded years ago by another gamer known as YoYoSquidy, underscores how Robinson’s disturbing behavior went unnoticed for years. In one clip, a fellow player called him a “psychopath” as the group played Minecraft together.
Turning Point USA announced Thursday that Erika Kirk, widow of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, has been unanimously elected as the organization’s new CEO and chair of its board of directors.
