How Law Enforcement Got the Man Suspected of Killing Charlie Kirk NYT | Top Stories By: Glenn Thrush, Kellen Browning, Mike Baker and Devlin Barrett 13 September 2025 at 11:04 F.B.I. leaders touted the immense federal deployment assigned to find the assassin. But their big break came with a single tip — from the suspect’s own family. © Loren Elliott for The New York TimesLaw enforcement officers on Thursday searched a residential area close to Utah Valley University in Orem.