FBI Director Kash Patel has taken to his X account with a long-winded promise to be “thorough and exhaustive” in his investigation of the late Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

The statement comes as the right-wing influencer’s funeral proceedings–believed to have attracted 200,000 mourners at Arizona’s Glendale State Farm–kick off, with Republican high-profiles like JD Vance and Donald Trump expected to speak.

Patel’s post on X comes a week after he erred publicly with the premature announcement that authorities had captured Kirk’s assassin.
It was later revealed that the Utah law enforcement hurriedly released the person they had in custody when he made the claim, and the manhunt continued for another 33 hours.