Secret Service Reviewing Charlie Kirk Shooter Suspect’s Steam Library

It didn’t take lengthy after regulation enforcement officers publicly recognized a suspect within the Charlie Kirk assassination for folks on-line to start combing the web in search of his digital footprint. One of the profiles they discovered gave the impression to be his Steam account which, according to Bloomberg, is now being investigated by the Secret Service.

That’s as a result of 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, who was charged earlier this week with murdering Kirk at a talking occasion final week, reportedly used Donald Trump’s identify as an alias on the Valve-owned gaming storefront at one level. Sources advised Bloomberg the reference to the president is what led to the Secret Service’s involvement regardless of the Homeland Security company having no position in defending Kirk on the time of the assassination.

The Steam account many imagine to belong to Robinson exhibits 1000’s of hours spent enjoying video games like Sea of Thieves, Deep Rock Galactic, and Counter-Strike. The handful of public Steam evaluations he seemingly authored had been vague from the 1000’s of others posted for these video games. People have additionally been combing by his obvious Steam stock, which incorporates hats, buying and selling playing cards, and different unlockables.

Steam is amongst these gaming-affiliated web platforms which have been known as to Congress subsequent month to testify about on-line radicalization. The CEOs from Twitch, Discord, and Reddit have additionally been requested to take part. Despite a reference to Helldivers 2 showing on one of many casings left behind close to the crime scene, there’s been little publicly disclosed proof to date that gaming, memes, or another a part of the fashionable web performed a lot of a task in driving Robinson to allegedly assassinate the suitable wing podcaster.

“The politically motivated assassination of Charlie Kirk claimed the life of a husband, father, and American patriot. In the wake of this tragedy, and amid other acts of politically motivated violence, Congress has a duty to oversee the online platforms that radicals have used to advance political violence,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) announced on Wednesday.

But leaked Discord chats and interviews with pals have to date supplied little that may counsel Robinson’s historical past with gaming and the web had been uniquely worrying, or totally different from these of most different folks his age.