Authorities now say that George Zinn, 71, who falsely claimed to have assassinated Charlie Kirk, is facing disturbing new charges.

According to a Tuesday release from the Utah Valley Sheriff’s Office, investigators discovered that Zinn possessed graphic sexual images of children. He has also been charged with felony obstruction of justice.

Zinn initially approached officers at Utah Valley University shortly after Kirk’s killing, claiming responsibility for the shooting. Police took him into custody, but when he complained of chest pains, he was transported to a nearby hospital. There, he admitted he was not the shooter and had fabricated the story in hopes of distracting law enforcement to help the real assassin escape.

While being interviewed at the hospital, George Zinn reportedly gave investigators permission to search his phone — and admitted outright that it contained child sexual abuse material.

According to a release from the Utah Valley Sheriff’s Office, an FBI agent and an agent from the Utah State Bureau of Investigation conducted the search and discovered several such images. The case was then turned over to the Utah County Special Victims Unit, which found more than 20 images of children between the ages of 5 and 12 in “various stages of undress and sexual posing.”

Authorities also uncovered “several very graphic sexual text threads” in which Zinn allegedly shared the images with others.

George Zinn was released from the hospital on Monday and booked into the Utah County Jail, where he now faces multiple charges: second-degree felony obstruction of justice connected to the Charlie Kirk assassination, along with four counts of second-degree felony exploitation of a minor.

In an affidavit cited by KSL-TV, Utah Valley University Police Detective Michael Dutson recounted that Zinn approached him after the shooting, yelling, “I shot him, now shoot me.” Dutson noted that he could see both of Zinn’s hands and no weapon. When pressed about the gun’s location, Zinn allegedly responded, “I am not going to tell you,” according to KTVX-TV.

Court and media records show Zinn has a long history of legal trouble. In 2013, he was convicted of making a terroristic threat at the Salt Lake City Marathon. KSL described him as someone “known for hanging around political events,” while the Salt Lake Tribune characterized him as a Utah “gadfly” — a fixture at protests, Republican gatherings, and film screenings who has been arrested several times, often for misdemeanors like trespassing.