FBI Director Kash Patel spoke Fox News on Monday about the investigation into the assassin who murdered Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, September 10. He said that the alleged killer, who has been charged and is in custody, wrote a note prior to the attack reading, in summary, “I have the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.”
“Did he write a written note before, before the assassination attempt?” He was asked. “That’s what the governor said yesterday. And what did that say?”
“What I’m able to say is… that the written note, we believe did exist, and we have evidence to show what was in that note, which is, and I’m going to summarize basically saying, the suspect wrote it out, saying ‘I have the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, and I’m going to take it,'” Patel said.
“That note was written before the shooting. Evidence of its existence, we now have learned existed before the shooting, was in the location in the suspect and partner’s home. But we have since learned that the note, even though it has been destroyed, we have found forensic evidence of the note, and we have confirmed what that note