Terminally online “gamer” invested heavily in that online social bubble. Gamers tend to be pretty reactionary but usually don’t have solid pinned down politics.

The only thing we know about him that even registers as “left” leaning purely in the culture war bullshit is he was allegedly in a romantic relationship with his allegedly trans roommate. I’m using alleged because I haven’t seen any statements from the person in question as to their relationship status or them transitioning. It’s a solid assumption though based on the texts and stuff.

They haven’t really presented a motive as to why he targeted Kirk to my knowledge. Many of these shootings are from opportunity and not really any real reason. Kirk was there so he targeted him. If Tucker or I dunno Rachel Maddow was there… you get the idea. At least at this point he’s just been quoted by family as disliking Kirk. He’s also been described as disliking politicians generally so I’m not sure there’s much to glean from reported quotes.

Anyway, probably not a groyper. He was using gaming/4chan memes though which has sharing between them in memes.

As dumb as it sounds it seems like a vaguely right wing guy who didn’t hate gay and trans people thought it was a “good meme” to kill Kirk. They haven’t presented anything else to suggest any other reason.