Secret Service employee who celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination put on immediate leave

"The U.S. Secret Service will not tolerate behavior that violates our code of conduct. This employee was immediately put on administrative leave, and an investigation has begun," a U.S. Secret Service spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Friday afternoon when asked about the employment status of Anthony Pough. 

Pough had celebrated Kirk's shocking assassination in a Facebook post, which included accusing the slain conservative firebrand of spewing "racism." 

"Especially when we should be mourning the innocent children killed in Colorado," he continued, referring to the Evergreen High School shooting that left two students injured Wednesday. 

Pough blamed "karma" for Kirk's assassination in the inflammatory Facebook post. 

"At the end of the day, you answer to GOD and speak things into existence. You can only circumvent karma, she doesnt [sic] leave," he wrote. 

Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn called for the Secret Service employee's immediate termination in a letter to Secret Service Director Sean Curran on Thursday. 

Kirk was attending a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday afternoon when a single shot rang out and struck Kirk in the neck. He was transported to a local hospital and was pronounced dead just hours later. 

Kirk leaves behind his wife, Erika Kirk, as well as their two children, ages 1 and 3. The Kirks married in 2021. 

Trump announced on Friday morning during an appearance on "Fox & Friends" that police had apprehended a suspect in the case. Tyler Robinson, 22, was later identified as the suspect in the assassination. 

"We got him on the evening of Sept. 11," Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced Friday morning. 

"A family member of Tyler Robinson reached out to a family friend who contacted the Washington County Sheriff's Office with information that Robinson had confessed to them or implied that he had committed the incident."