When Twiggs asked why, Robinson responded that “he had had enough of his hate. Some hates can’t be negotiated.”

He continued texting Twiggs that night, still near the Utah Valley University campus in Orem where Kirk was shot, and told his roommate that he had left his rifle in the bushes where he had changed clothes and was waiting to retrieve it.

“If I can grab my rifle without being seen, I won’t have left evidence,” Robinson said in the text messages.

He complained that the crickets were too loud and lamented that a sniffer dog could have located the firearm. A strong police presence and a patrol car remained near the scene.

“I’m sitting in my car watching reels for another hour,” Robinson texted Twiggs.

He also texted her that he was leaving Orem, more than a three-hour drive from his apartment in St George, southern Utah, and told Twiggs he was on his way home.

The next day, Twiggs said in the recorded interview, Robinson was in her apartment when she woke up.

Robinson “did not go into detail” about the previous day, Twiggs said.

“I just asked him in person if what he said was true the night before and he said yes. He started crying a little bit and said he wished he hadn’t and then he kept wandering around and doing things, I think to keep himself busy or distracted or something.”

Robinson told his roommate that he intended to turn himself in.

Utah State Bureau of Investigation Agent Brian Davis testified earlier Wednesday that Robinson, accompanied by his parents and a family friend, arrived around 9 p.m. that day to turn himself in to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.

Hours of court proceedings Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning focused on discussion between the prosecution and defense, as well as media attorneys and Erika Kirk, over whether Twiggs’ video statement could be released.

Judge Tony Graf ultimately ruled that both the images and text exchanges could be published, with some edits and some portions viewable only in the courtroom and not to the public.

Robinson’s defense team has raised repeated objections to evidence and testimony throughout the proceedings. Earlier in the week, prosecutors filed an FBI report, which described DNA belonging to Robinson and Twiggs found on a rifle, screwdriver and towel recovered at the scene.

The defense then spent hours questioning the analyst who signed the report, asking him about protocol, evidence, interpretation and margins of error.