Trump: Charlie Kirk died after he was shot at Utah College | Luck
Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and a close ally of President Donald Trump, died on Wednesday after he was shot at a university event, Trump said.
31 -year -old Kirk, co -founder and CEO of the Turning Point USA, is the latest victim of the convulsions of political violence in the United States.
Videos published on the social media from Utah Valley University show kirk talking to a pocket microphone while sitting under the white tent of decorative slogans with a “American return” and “bad”. The only shot rings and Kirk can get his right hand when a large volume of blood flows from his left side. The spectators are breathtaking and screaming before people start to escape. AP was able to confirm the videos we took at the Soresen Center Courtyard on the University campus Utah Valley University.
“We confirm that he has been shot and prayed for Charlie,” said Aubrey Laitsch, Public Relations Manager for Turning Point USA.
The person who was taken into custody of Utah Valley University was not suspected of being familiar with the investigation that was not authorized to speak publicly. It was not clear whether the authorities were still looking for a premises for a suspect.
Kirk spoke in a debate organized by his non -profit political organization. Extremely before the shooting, Kirk took questions for a member of the audience about mass shooting and violence on weapons.
“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been a bulk shooter over the past 10 years?” The audience asked the members. Kirk replied, “Too much.”
The interviewer followed: “Do you know how many bulk shooters have been in America in the last 10 years?”
“Counting or not counting the violence of gangs?” Kirk asked.
Then one shot line out.
The event was built with divided views on the campus. An online petition asking the university administrators to stop Kirk from the fact that almost 1,000 signatures appeared. The university released last week, which had the muscle of the right to the first amendment and associated “commitment to freedom of expression, intellectual investigation and constructive dialogue”.
Last week, Kirk published X Images of News Clips showing his visit to University in Utah. He wrote, “What’s the matter in Utah?”
Officials react
Trump and many Republican and democratic elected officials condemned shooting and offered prayers for Kirk on social media.
“We all have to pray for Charlie Kirk, who was shot. A great man from top to bottom. God hurts him!” Trump published on social social.
Shooting comes in the middle of an increase in political violence in the United States in all parts of the ideological spectrum. The attacks included the assassination of the state lawmakers Minnesota and her husband in their house in June, the fire bombing of Colorado Parade to demand Hamas’s notes and lit the fire in the Pennsylvanian governor, which is Jewish, in April. The latest of these events is Trump shooting last year.
Train Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz, a Republican who was at the event, said in an interview at Fox News Channel, who heard one shot and saw Kirk returned.
“It seemed to be a narrow shot,” said Chaffetz, who looked shaken when he spoke.
He said there was a light police presence at the event, and Kirk had some security but a notch.
“Utah is one of the safest places on the planet,” he said. “So we just give these types of things.”
The turnover point was founded in the suburban Chicago in 2012 Kirk, then 18, and William Montgomery, an activist for a tea party, to promote on university campuses for low taxes and limited government. It was not an immediate success.
However, Kirk’s zeal for the confrontation of liberals on academic soil has evolved an impact on the influencing set of conservative financial financials.
Despite early doubts, the turnover point enthusiastically supported Trump after the appointment of GOP in 2016. Kirk served as personal assistance to Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of the President, during the general election campaign.
Soon Kirk was a regular presence on cable television, where he leaned into cultural wars and praised the president of that time. Trump and his were equally episode and often spoke at conferences about turnover.
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Richer and Sherman reported from Washington. This report was contributed to the Associated Press Nicholas Riccardi in Denver and Michael Biesecker and Brian Slodysko in Washington.
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