WATCH LIVE: Day 1 of Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing in Charlie Kirk murder trial
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PROVO, Utah — Nearly 10 months after Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on the campus of Utah Valley University, a preliminary hearing for the alleged gunman, Tyler Robinson, is scheduled to begin Monday.
Robinson faces 10 charges in 4th District Court, the most serious being aggravated murder, a capital offense. The Utah County Attorney’s Office says it will seek the death penalty if Robinson is convicted on that charge.
In addition to aggravated murder, Robinson, 23, is charged with discharge of a firearm causing injury, a first-degree felony; two counts of obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony; two counts of witness tampering, a third-degree felony; and committing a violent offense in the presence of a child, a class A misdemeanor.
Watch the hearing in the video player above. Follow live written updates here.