Family of Tyler Robinson live in Washington, a city of 35,000 people 260 miles from where Kirk was killed during event

The quiet neighborhood was like many others in the sun-baked city of Washington, Utah, which lies amid the red rock and sagebrush mesas of the Utah-Arizona borderlands.

Just hours before, news had broken that law enforcement had arrested Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old college student who they said confessed to his family that he had shot and killed Charlie Kirk, the far-right influencer and Turning Point USA co-founder, earlier this week.