Conservative commentator and podcast host Charlie Kirk has died after being shot at a Q&A event for Turning Point USA at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. He was 31.
Cell phone videos circulating on X (Twitter) show Kirk speaking to students seconds before a gunshot rang out.
Kirk responded to a speaker who asked, “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America?”
“Counting or not counting gang violence,” Kirk said before he was shot.
Kirk flinched and fell off his chair onto the floor.
One video shows security rushing Kirk to a black SUV. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Charlie Kirk’s security team rush him into a vehicle after he was shot.
The Turning Point founder was holding a campus event with thousands in attendance in Utah when he was shot in the neck.
Police have a suspect in custody.
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A petition signed by 7,000 people before the event called for Kirk to be banned from campus.
President Donald Trump asked for prayers for his friend. “We must pray,” he said in a brief statement on his Truth Social app.
In 2019, Kirk launched a campaign to enlist 1 million “Students for Trump” ahead of Trump’s unsuccessful reelection campaign in 2020.
Vice President JD Vance said, “Say a payer for Charlie Kirk, a genuinely good guy and a young father.”
Kirk is a right-wing political activist, author and media personality. He co-founded Turning Point USA in 2012.
He has appeared on “The Candace Owens Show,” and she appeared on his show amid conflicts with Ben Shapiro, her then-coworker at the Daily Wire.
Kirk is survived by his wife Erika Frantzve and their 2 children, a girl and a boy.
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BREAKING: Charlie Kirk reportedly shot at Utah Valley University event pic.twitter.com/BTnElmOILf
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