The story of Lance Twiggs

So this is just a rant about what I feel I am seeing happen in Utah right now. As you well know, so long as you haven't been living under a rock, on September 10th, Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a public event in Utah, just as he happened to be talking with someone about transgender mass shooters. Kirk, being a darling of the far-right, was assumed by many to have been shot by a far-left activist. Many on the right essentially called for a war against the left in America.

Then, the shooter was caught, and it was, in fact, a white conservative Christian male, as so many shooters are. Etchings on the bullet casings seemed to point to the shooter being a member of the Groyper movement, essentially neo-Nazi trolls. This was, of course, a bit of a letdown for Kirk's fans, who were really itching for a fight with the left.

So then, the whole story makes a swing way out into left field. The shooter lived in an apartment with other men his age. One of them was named Lance Twiggs, and when he was interviewed, he was dressed in an animal onesie.

 

This is where the official story goes from there: the FBI claims to have gotten hold of texts between the shooter and Twiggs. These texts revealed that Twiggs was in fact the shooter's transgender girlfriend, and the real reason for Kirk's assassination was retribution for his transphobia.

There have been a lot of articles in the news about the relationship with Twiggs, and what sort of a person Twiggs was. In none of these articles does anyone who knew him refer to Twiggs as transgender, or use feminine pronouns for him. Many people have commented on how the texts don't sound like they were written by someone the shooter's age. Personally, I keep questioning what transgender woman (as the vast majority of transgender people rename themselves after coming out) names herself "Lance".

I actually have friends who are believing the official story, but to me, it sounds like completely fabricated bullshit to place the blame for the death of Kirk on transgender people. What do others think?