Eighteen-year-old Tyler Robinson seemingly had a bright future ahead of him.

The Utah teen had scored in the top percentile on his college entrance exam and earned himself a four-year scholarship to Utah State University in Logan. His proud mother posted a video on Facebook in which her first-born son, the oldest of three, read aloud the school¡¯s letter offering him the grant.

¡°He¡¯s so excited to start his journey and it¡¯s going to be so amazing for him!¡± she wrote in another post.