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   On 9/10/2025 1:36 PM, slothe wrote:   
   > OREM, Utah (AP) — Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of the conservative   
   > youth organization Turning Point USA, was in critical condition at a Utah   
   > hospital Wednesday after being shot at a college event, a law enforcement   
   > official told The Associated Press.   
      
   He's dead.   
   https://wapo.st/4m8mE6c   
      
   >   
   > Videos posted to social media from Utah Valley University show Kirk   
   > speaking into a handheld microphone while sitting under a white tent   
   > emblazoned with the slogans “The American Comeback” and “Prove Me   
   Wrong.”   
   > A single shot rings out and Kirk can be seen reaching up with his right   
   > hand as a large volume of blood gushes from the left side of his neck.   
   > Stunned spectators are heard gasping and screaming before people start to   
   > run away. The AP was able to confirm the videos were taken at Sorensen   
   > Center courtyard on the Utah Valley University campus.   
   >   
   > “We are confirming that he was shot and we are praying for Charlie,” said   
   > Aubrey Laitsch, public relations manager for Turning Point USA.   
   >   
   > Kirk was speaking at a debate hosted by his nonprofit political   
   > organization. The event had been met with divided opinions on campus. An   
   > online petition calling for university administrators to bar Kirk from   
   > appearing received nearly 1,000 signatures. The university issued a   
   > statement last week citing First Amendment rights and affirming its   
   > “commitment to free speech, intellectual inquiry, and constructive   
   > dialogue.”   
   >   
   > Last week, Kirk posted on X images of news clips showing his visit to Utah   
   > colleges was sparking controversy. He wrote, “What’s going on in Utah?”   
   >   
   > The college said a “single shot” had been fired at Kirk and a suspect was   
   > in custody.   
   >   
   > President Donald Trump and a host of Republican and Democratic elected   
   > officials decried the shooting and offered prayers for Kirk on social   
   > media.   
   >   
   > “We must all pray for Charlie Kirk, who has been shot. A great guy from   
   > top to bottom. GOD BLESS HIM!” Trump posted on Truth Social.   
   >   
   > The shooting comes amid a spike in political violence in the United States   
   > across all parts of the ideological spectrum. The attacks include the   
   > assassination of a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband at their house   
   > in June, the firebombing of a Colorado parade to demand Hamas release   
   > hostages, and a fire set at the house of Pennsylvania’s governor, who is   
   > Jewish, in April. The most notorious of these events is the shooting of   
   > Trump during a campaign rally last year.   
   >   
   > Former Utah congressman Jason Chaffetz, a Republican who was at the event,   
   > said in an interview on Fox News Channel that he heard one shot and saw   
   > Kirk go back.   
   >   
   > “It seemed like it was a close shot,” Chaffetz said, who seemed shaken as   
   > he spoke.   
   >   
   > He said there was a light police presence at the event and Kirk had some   
   > security but not enough.   
   >   
   > “Utah is one of the safest places on the planet,” he said. “And so we   
   just   
   > don’t have these types of things.”   
   >   
   > Turning Point was founded in suburban Chicago in 2012 by Kirk, then 18,   
   > and William Montgomery, a tea party activist, to proselytize on college   
   > campuses for low taxes and limited government. It was not an immediate   
   > success.   
   >   
   > But Kirk’s zeal for confronting liberals in academia eventually won over   
   > an influential set of conservative financiers.   
   >   
   > Despite early misgivings, Turning Point enthusiastically backed Trump   
   > after he clinched the GOP nomination in 2016. Kirk served as a personal   
   > aide to Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, during the general   
   > election campaign.   
   >   
   > Soon, Kirk was a regular presence on cable TV, where he leaned into the   
   > culture wars and heaped praise on the then-president. Trump and his son   
   > were equally effusive and often spoke at Turning Point conferences.   
   >   
   > https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-conservative-activist-shot-   
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