PROVO, Utah — In a dramatic courtroom moment, the former lover of Tyler Robinson, who stands accused of murdering Charlie Kirk, revealed a significant admission in a video shared with Utah prosecutors Thursday. According to this video testimony, Robinson expressed deep regret over the incident.

“I confronted him directly if what he confessed the previous night was genuine,” Lance Twiggs recounted to investigators during questioning. “He affirmed it was true, broke down a bit, and admitted that he wished he hadn’t gone through with it.”

The confession aligned with messages sent the night before, where Robinson allegedly claimed responsibility for Kirk’s tragic shooting during a conversation with Twiggs, as prosecutors later revealed through text message evidence.

The poignant video surfaced on the fourth day of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing. This legal procedure aims to establish whether the case holds enough evidence to proceed to trial.

Prosecutors had attempted to play it Wednesday, but the defense asked the judge to order redactions.

After some back and forth over what could and couldn’t be included, it was shown in court Thursday morning, and Robinson appeared to watch it closely.

Twiggs, who is cooperating with investigators and hasn’t been charged with a crime, was also Robinson’s lover and roommate, according to prosecutors. He said that he identified as “Luna” to some associates, including Robinson.

Twiggs was briefly placed under FBI protection and has since left the state.

After the shooting, Twiggs allegedly received a text message from Robinson telling him to look under his keyboard. There, according to prosecutors, he found a note that he said he took a picture of.

Prosecutors showed it in court, but the judge said it could not be photographed. It was a full page, written by hand.

“I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it,” it read at one point.

After seeing the note, Twiggs then allegedly 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 replied — allegedly. “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.”

“You weren’t the one who did it right????” Twiggs replied.

“I am,” Robinson allegedly wrote back. “I’m sorry.”

Twiggs also alleged in the video that Robinson began engraving bullets roughly a month before the shooting.

“I don’t remember exactly when, but he had said he was planning to go hunting with his family,” Twiggs told prosecutor Ryan McBride in the recorded interview. “And he asked me…if we had a Dremel tool, because he said he wanted to create messages on bullets.”

Prosecutors have said that cartridges and a spent casing recovered from the suspected murder weapon had been engraved with several messages. Another casing with a similar engraving had been recovered from the home Robinson and Twiggs shared, according to testimony Thursday.

Several times when the Dremel tool allegedly used to engrave the bullets came up Robinson appeared uncomfortable in the courtroom, fidgeting in his chair.

Twiggs said he told Robinson where to find the tool and warned him not to accidentally discharge a bullet while engraving — then didn’t think of it again until after Kirk was killed.

Mention of the tool also appeared to have an impact on Robinson’s family in the first row of the gallery in court.

As the Dremel discussion continued, Robinson’s brother was bent over with his head down, with his mother rubbing his back, and the father’s arm around her.

Later in the hearing, when the court saw a text message conversation between Robinson and Twiggs, Erika Kirk could be heard crying as the texts were read in court of Twiggs asking Robinson questions about the gun, which by the time they were sent had been recovered by police in a wooded area just off campus.

According to Twiggs’ video interview, Robinson allegedly told him that he had a “long drive to work” on the morning of the shooting.

“I don’t know an exact time,” he said. “I just know he left early. I heard him leaving, and he just said he had, like, long drive to work that day. So he was leaving early.”

That was on Sept. 10, the day of Kirk’s assassination at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Robinson allegedly lingered in the area until after midnight on Sept. 11.

When Twiggs said he woke up at around noon to 1 p.m. on the day of the shooting, members of Kirk’s family scoffed from the third row of the gallery.

Robinson reached up and scratched his throat when Twiggs talked about the last time he saw Tyler before he went to surrender.

In another portion of the video interview, Twiggs told investigators that Robinson looked like the man circulated on an FBI wanted poster connected to the shooting, which showed a person of interest on campus.

“They do look like Tyler Robinson,” Twiggs said.

He had downplayed the identification, however.

“I wouldn’t say with 100% certainty just because of camera quality, but that looks like him in terms of the shoes he’s wearing, the sunglasses,” Twiggs said. “I don’t think I’d specifically seen him wearing that hat, but he was usually wearing a hat, and the jeans.”

Twiggs did not testify in person at the preliminary hearing but may be asked to do so if the case goes to trial.

Near the end of Thursday’s hearing, Judge Tony Graf Jr. indicated that he would not make a decision at the end of the preliminary hearing this week. Instead, he agreed to a defense request to allow briefs to be filed by both sides before he listens to oral arguments at a hearing scheduled for Sept. 1.

Only after that would he make a decision on where there’s enough probable cause to send Robinson’s case to trial.

The 23-year-old accused assassin has not yet entered a plea and won’t do so unless the judge agrees with prosecutors that the charges are warranted.

The September hearing will be nearly a year after a sniper’s bullet killed Kirk during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Robinson could face the death penalty if convicted.

In a significant setback, over 100 U.S. Air Force airmen have experienced the revocation of their recent promotions due to a critical error in the scoring of a mandatory examination. Officials from the Air Force have acknowledged the mistake, cautioning that it will prove to be challenging for those who are affected.

On Tuesday, the Air Force disclosed that a dated answer key had been applied erroneously to the scoring of the Specialty Knowledge Test—a pivotal exam that influences promotion decisions for security forces airmen.

As a consequence, 135 promotions were rescinded, impacting airmen set to advance to the rank of Sergeant. The available positions were subsequently reassigned to other qualified troops under the rectified scoring criteria.

“We have an obligation to immediately address this situation for those impacted,” stated Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force David R. Wolfe. “This mistake is understandably difficult for everyone involved.”

The mistake was identified post-publication of the promotion list, when a member of the enlisted promotions team at the Air Force Personnel Center noticed the usage of an incorrect scoring key, as reported by the service.

Officials rescored all 2,285 eligible exams and learned that 135 airmen who had been told they were selected for promotion to technical sergeant no longer met the cutoff score.

Another 135 airmen who were initially passed over will now be promoted instead.

Technical sergeant is a mid-level enlisted rank, and promotions are based on several factors, including performance, time in service and scores on the Specialty Knowledge Test.

After the exams were rescored, 451 of the original 586 selectees kept their promotions. The total number of promotions did not change.

The Air Force described the mix-up as an isolated and unprecedented case of human error that affected only the security forces career field.

Officials said they verified the correct answer key with subject matter experts before rescoring every eligible exam.

“We promote Airmen based on merit, which is established in federal law and policy,” Lt. Gen. Jefferson O’Donnell, the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for manpower, personnel and services, said.

“Who we are as an Air Force, defined by our core values, demands integrity in the meritocratic promotion system.”

The Air Force Personnel Center plans to announce the 135 newly selected technical sergeants in a supplemental promotion release during the week of July 13.

Officials said the new selectees will receive adjusted line numbers that will not delay their promotions.

The service said leaders are notifying affected airmen directly, have set up a hotline to answer questions and are tightening review procedures as they investigate how the mistake happened.

Officials also emphasized that the error was caused by human error — not AI.

The promotion blunder follows other high-profile testing problems in the Air Force.

Last year, the Air Force Academy investigated nearly 100 cadets accused of cheating on a weekly knowledge test.

In 2021, another cheating scandal involved nearly 250 cadets accused of honor code violations, prompting a broader review of the academy’s programs.

A tragic misstep in Houston has left a Mexican national living in the U.S. dead after being shot by an agent from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The incident involved an unintended victim, according to U.S. Representative Sylvia Garcia, who disclosed this development on Thursday.

Representing the district where the shooting took place, Congresswoman Garcia conveyed that Acting ICE Director David Venturella informed her about the oversight. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the man who was killed, was not the intended target of the operation, as confirmed by the agency.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a homebuilder who had resided in the United States for over 35 years, was on the verge of securing legal status at the time of his death. His family asserts he had no criminal history, casting the incident in an even more tragic light.

“Something needs to be done. This is another needless death,” Garcia emphasized during an interview with MS Now. “We should consider bringing in external, independent investigators to examine this case,” she suggested, stressing the need for a thorough investigation.

As of late Thursday, a request for comment from the Department of Homeland Security had not been answered. The agency’s silence continues to leave many unanswered questions regarding the circumstances of Salgado Araujo’s death.

DHS, which oversees ICE, previously said that federal officers were conducting a targeted operation to arrest a person in the country without legal status when they attempted to stop a vehicle driven by Salgado Araujo. The agency has said Salgado Araujo rammed an ICE vehicle and that a federal officer fired a weapon in self-defense.

Asked whether ICE agents had been specifically targeting Salgado Araujo, DHS said earlier Thursday that officers had been surveilling a property where they had previously observed two white vans.

“On July 7, officers were almost at the target’s address when they observed a white van with an individual who resembled the target. Officers then initiated the vehicle stop,” the department said.

The federal agents weren’t wearing body-worn cameras, DHS said, and few photos or videos surrounding the shooting have emerged publicly in the days since the encounter, unlike other deaths involving federal immigration officers.

In a statement, DHS said the agents at the scene in Houston had not yet been issued body cameras, which it blamed on Democrats and a record government shutdown that was fueled by President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

U.S. Rep. Christian Menefee, a Democrat who also represents Houston, said if the agents didn’t have the devices, it was because Trump and Republican lawmakers did not want them to be carrying them.

“Houston is done accepting excuses from an agency that has more money than it knows what to do with and still can’t manage basic accountability,” he said in a statement.

The Harris County District Attorney’s office said it would conduct an investigation into the shooting. The office is consulting with local prosecutors in Minneapolis, where federal agents fatally shot two U.S. citizens, to learn how they have navigated investigations into federal immigration agents, spokesperson Rafael Lemaitre said.

“Although access to key evidence remains under federal control, we are pursuing investigative avenues available to us and will conduct a review of any information we collect within our reach,” Lemaitre said in an emailed statement.

Three men, including Salgado Araujo’s brother, were detained by ICE during the fatal traffic stop, according to Juan Proaño, CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens, who has been communicating with their families.

“It’s going to make it even more difficult to find the truth in all this,” he said.

DHS said the ICE agents involved in the incident were expected to receive body-worn cameras in the next 60 days.

In the aftermath of the fatal Minneapolis shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Democrats had refused to fund ICE and the Border Patrol without changes to those operations designed to increase accountability and transparency. Republicans in Congress eventually passed legislation funding just ICE and CBP for three years.

Tragedy struck in northern Kansas City when a 10-year-old boy was discovered lifeless in a pond near his residence, after reportedly sleepwalking from his home during the night.

Jackson Georgari was last captured on video around midnight on Thursday, as seen in footage from a doorbell camera at the apartment complex where he lived, according to a statement from the Kansas City Police Department.

A missing person alert was issued by authorities later that morning. The search for the young boy quickly intensified, involving multiple police departments, the Kansas City Fire Department, and concerned neighborhood volunteers.

After an exhaustive search spanning several hours, which employed the use of drones and K-9 units, officers made the heartbreaking discovery of Georgari’s body in a pond situated approximately a mile south of his home around noon on Thursday, 12 hours after he was last observed.

Despite the best efforts of fire and rescue teams to revive him, the boy could not be saved and was sadly pronounced dead at the scene, Kansas City police confirmed.

Police added that ‘there were no immediate signs of foul play,’ though the boy’s death is under investigation. 

The medical examiner is working to determine Georgari’s cause and manner of death.

While the search was still underway, the little boy’s family told KMBC that he had sleepwalked in the past. 

Semina Richard, Georgari’s older sister, told the outlet that the first time he had sleepwalked was when the family was living in San Diego, before they recently moved to Kansas City. 

‘Someone found him on the street and they called 911. They brought him over and he was found safely,’ Semina said of that incident. 

The second time was after the family had moved to Missouri. ‘He ran away again, and he went all the way up there where his school is at because that’s the only place he recognizes,’ she said. 

The little boy’s death has rattled the local community. 

‘It hurts in your community when you have a kid that goes out in the middle of the night and whatever the circumstances were that led to him ending up in there,’ Kansas City Police Department Captain Jake Becchina told KCTV.

‘You feel for the family involved in this. It’s unimaginable. I can’t even imagine. They went to bed last night, and everything was normal. And now today they have to deal with this,’ the police captain added. 

Neighbors who had participated in the search effort recounted their experience and expressed their heartbreak for the family.

‘I had an appointment this morning, right after the police had left. And I thought, well, maybe I’ll be lucky and find him. But he may have already been passed by that [point],’ Heather Meikenhous said. 

‘It’s just so sad. My heart goes out for his parents. And please, please get peace. I wish you the best,’ she added. 

Estela Yslas, a resident who has lived in the neighborhood for 40 years, told KCTV it was the first time she had seen anything like this happen in the area. 

‘I would like to tell them that I prayed for them, and I’m so sorry for their loss. But I prayed that they will find them. But not like that,’ Yslas said in a message to Georgari’s family.

The Briarcliff Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization confirmed that the boy was a student at the school in a statement shared on social media. 

‘We extend our deepest condolences to the student’s family, friends, classmates, teachers, and everyone whose lives were touched by him,’ the statement said.

‘Please continue to hold this family and our entire Briarcliff community close in your hearts,’ the parent teacher organization added. 

Georgari would have started fifth grade when school resumes in the fall.  

Authorities in Florida apprehended a man who allegedly brought a blazing propane tank into a Tampa dining establishment and brandished two knives while deputies attempted to arrest him.

The drama unfolded at approximately 8:45 a.m. on Tuesday, when deputies from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office were called to a restaurant in Tampa following reports of an ongoing assault or battery, as stated by the sheriff’s office.

Upon arriving at the scene, deputies discovered the interior of the restaurant engulfed in smoke and flames, with a propane tank ignited outside, officials reported. They observed Rubiel Maceo Castillo, 53, inside, holding twin knives. Deputies repeatedly ordered him to discard the weapons and exit the premises.

In a tense moment captured on bodycam footage, a deputy can be heard shouting, “Drop the knife now. Do it now.”

Working alongside Hillsborough County Fire Rescue crews, deputies extinguished the fire before taking Castillo into custody. He was booked into jail and is being held without bond.

Castillo allegedly grabbed two knives and charged at several people inside the restaurant before cutting a woman on the wrist when she tried to intervene, according to court documents obtained by WFLA-TV. Investigators alleged he then cut a gas line connected to a grill, grabbed a propane tank and ignited the fire.

Surveillance video released by the sheriff’s office appears to show a man carrying a flaming propane tank through the restaurant as flames spread inside the business. Body camera footage also captured deputies confronting the suspect before placing him under arrest and helping extinguish the blaze.

Castillo has been charged with first-degree arson of an occupied structure, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, criminal mischief causing more than $1,000 in damage and other offenses, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.

While authorities have not publicly identified a motive, WFLA reported that investigators believe the incident stemmed from a domestic dispute involving Castillo and his wife.