Lance Twiggs was named as the roommate of accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson by The New York Post and Daily Mail.

After those reports, Wisconsin Right Now reached two family members of Twiggs by phone on Sept. 13. The first family member declined to comment and hung up. The second family member confirmed the information in the Post and Daily Mail stories but also provided additional details to Wisconsin Right Now that no one has reported yet.

For starters, the family member – who has not spoken to other members of the news media – alleged that Twiggs harbored animosity toward conservatives and Christians, confirmed that Twiggs was transgender/transitioning, and said that Robinson was allegedly Twiggs’ boyfriend.

“He (Lance Twiggs) is very angry with anyone who is supportive of conservative ideals and Christian values,” alleged the family member.

“As far as I know, he was not going by another name. I just know he was in the process of transitioning. I know he was trying to take different medications,” alleged the relative of Lance, whom the family member had avoided for about four years out of concern over Twiggs’ alleged temperament.

To be clear, authorities have not accused Lance Twiggs of criminal wrongdoing or culpability in connection with Kirk’s death. A roommate was mentioned in the Utah governor’s press conference, although he was not named. Utah’s Gov. Spencer Cox said that the roommate gave authorities messages from Robinson that referred to a rifle and bullet engravings; after this article first ran, Cox appeared on television and confirmed Robinson’s “roommate was a romantic partner, a male transitioning to female. I can say that he has been incredibly cooperative, this partner has been very cooperative, had no idea that this was happening.”

Although authorities are still investigating the motive, the governor revealed that Robinson had a “leftist ideology.”

“Clearly a leftist ideology,” Cox said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” On CNN’s “State of the Union,” he revealed, “That information comes from the people around him, his family members and friends.”

Twiggs’ family member shed more light on Twiggs in the interview with WRN.

“They did live together,” the family member of Lance Twiggs told Wisconsin Right Now in the exclusive phone interview on Sept. 13, referring to Twiggs and Robinson.

The relative told WRN about having heard second-hand from other family members that Lance had allegedly “wished horrible things on people. I’ve really distanced. There was (allegedly) evil inside and only getting worse.”

A Fox News journalist reported, via sources, on Sept. 13, that Robinson was living with a transgender roommate but did not name the roommate. Robinson “was living with a transgender partner who was in the process of transitioning from male to female,” The Post confirmed. The Post and Daily Mail reported that they were not able to confirm or deny whether Twiggs was transgender or whether Twiggs was the same “transgender roommate” referred to by the Post.

The shaken relative, who almost broke down into tears at one point during the interview, asked not to be named. WRN tracked down the family member through datamining sites that showed the familial linkage to Twiggs.

The relative alleged that Lance Twiggs is “not mentally well at all.” Asked whether Lance was transgender and transitioning, the family member alleged, “This is true. I can’t be sure of when it started. I have suspicions it would have been about four years.”

The family member alleged to WRN that Robinson was Lance Twiggs’ boyfriend. “I knew he had a boyfriend. I never met him. None of us had.” The relative was not sure how long they were together.

Asked how the relative knew Robinson was allegedly Lance Twiggs’ boyfriend, the relative responded: “Lance disclosed that. Not to me directly. He wanted to have lunch with other family members to introduce his boyfriend.”

The relative said the relative had avoided having anything to do with Lance Twiggs for about four years.

“I know the reason I had nothing to do with him is he (Lance Twiggs) is full of evil and hatred,” the family member alleged about Lance Twiggs. “While this is extremely shocking, I was afraid he might hurt someone,” the family member alleged, saying this belief was based on “things he would say to family members.” The relative declined to be more specific.

“For at least four years, I haven’t talked to him,” the relative alleged of Lance. “I did not want him around my personal family. He’s not a healthy person. He is very angry with anyone who is supportive of conservative ideals and Christian values.”

The relative expressed great devastation over Kirk’s murder.

“We feel collectively as a family – we feel sick. We were all very devastated that this happened to Charlie Kirk,” said the relative, voice breaking emotionally. “It should never have happened. We liked him with the things he believed in. This shouldn’t happen in our country at all.”

The family member said the devastation came from having “it come in any way close this way. It was completely unexpected.”

The relative learned that Robinson was accused of shooting Kirk on Friday morning. “Tyler, I don’t know him at all,” added the relative. According to the relative, the Twiggs family is generally conservative and Christian, so Lance’s beliefs deviated from his family’s political stances.

“I hate what happened,” said the relative of Kirk’s death.

What the Post, Daily Mail & Fox News Have Reported About Lance Twiggs

Although a relative confirmed to The Post that Twiggs was Robinson’s roommate and the news site verified that Twiggs “resided at the same address where Robinson lived,” the Post stopped short of reporting that Twiggs is the transgender roommate referred to in the other reports. The relative the Post spoke to declined to say whether Twiggs was transitioning (and was apparently not the same family member interviewed by WRN as our source had not been interviewed yet by anyone).

Public records confirm that Twiggs, 22, lived in an apartment in Saint George.

Wisconsin Right Now reached a second relative of Twiggs by phone who said, “I have no comment, sorry,” and hung up.

Tyler Robinson’s roommate who tipped off FBI is identified as family refuse to deny transgender motive for Charlie Kirk assassination https://t.co/99PyPnyXxd

— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) September 13, 2025

The angle that Robinson lived with and had a transgender partner was first reported by a Fox News reporter, Brooke Singman, earlier in the morning.

“EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson lived with his transgender partner, sources tell me,” Singman wrote, without naming that partner. Again, it’s not clear whether that transgender partner was Twiggs.

“The individual, who is a male transitioning to a female, is fully cooperating with the FBI,” continued Singman. “Sources tell me the FBI had texts and other communications between Robinson and the individual that helped FBI authorities solidify that Robinson was indeed the shooter.”

Lance Twiggs Showed Police Tyler Robinson’s Texts, a Report Says

Daily Mail also reported Twiggs’ name and wrote that Twiggs “showed police texts from Robinson about stashing a gun linked to Wednesday’s shooting of” Kirk, citing a law enforcement affidavit.

Twiggs was described by Daily Mail as a “22-year-old wannabe gamer” who lived with Robinson “in a three-bedroom apartment in Saint George, Utah.”

Daily Mail linked to Lance Twiggs’ alleged TikTok account, which shows an interest in shooter games, and ran a photo from this Facebook page. A person referred to Twiggs as a man on a Facebook comment thread 31 weeks ago that showed Twiggs snowboarding. “You are a better man than me. I tried it and had to use my board as a sled halfway down the hill,” that person wrote.

“Did u pray today?” reads a graphic that Twiggs posted as a cover photo. The page has now filled up with people angry about Kirk’s death.

Daily Mail also reported that it is “unclear if Twiggs is the same person referenced in the reports (about a transgender roommate) and he has not been named in the affidavit.”

Daily Mail spoke with Twiggs’ grandfather, Jerry Twiggs, who did not comment on the transgender angle but did tell the publication that Twiggs “had been talking with the police.”

Details about Robinson’s background are still emerging. Although he is from a Republican family, Utah’s Gov. Spencer Cox told the Wall Street Journal on September 13 that the accused gunman was “deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology.”

Cox said in a news conference that a family member told authorities that Robinson disliked Kirk’s viewpoints. “They talked about why they didn’t like him and the viewpoints that he had,” Cox said. “The family member also stated Kirk was full of hate and spreading hate.”

“They talked about why they didn’t like him and the viewpoints he had,” Cox said.

Singman also wrote: “The last question Charlie Kirk answered before he was murdered was: ‘Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?’

Charlie replied: “Too many.”

He was then asked: “do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”

Charlie replied: “Counting or not counting gang violence?”

Charlie was then assassinated.”

About the author: Jessica McBride has been an award-winning Milwaukee-area journalist for more than 25 years and has taught journalism full-time at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for more than 20 years (her opinions are her own and don’t represent the institution where she works). Read her LinkedIn page here.

She was part of a reporting team for Wisconsin Right Now that won three gold Milwaukee Press Club awards in 2022 for the best public service news reporting, news reporting, and investigative reporting in the State of Wisconsin. The site has won multiple other prestigious journalism awards since its launch in 2020. As a former reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper for a decade, McBride was a national and state award-winning reporter who focused on criminal justice. She also covered the 9/11 terrorist attacks from lower Manhattan on 9/12/01.