Trump Ally Charlie Kirk Shoots During Event at Utah Valley University | Charlie Kirk Shoots

Powerful right-wing activist, Trump Ally and Charlie Kirk, executive director of TPUSA, were shot dead on Wednesday Utah And in critical condition in the hospital.

In video posts circulating on social media, Kirk can be seen being hit while speaking and sitting under a tent in the Utah Valley University courtyard. Kirk is there The American comeback journeychaired by the Utah Valley TPUSA chapter. There are also video tape Students on campus escaped the sound of gunfire.

A law enforcement official told the Associated Press that Kirk is in critical condition at the hospital. A TPUSA official told CBS Kirk that it “looks bad” and confirmed that he was shot.

In a post on X on Wednesday afternoon explain: “UVU campus is closed. Courses are cancelled. Those campuses on campus are safely in place until the police can safely escort you on campus. We ask you to be patient throughout the process. We provide updates as much as possible. It is an ongoing and ongoing event.”

A spokesman for Utah Valley University told New York era That Kirk was attacked by a suspect who opened fire from a building about 200 yards away.

University spokesman Scott Trotter also told the Times that “the person detained after the shooting was not actually the shooter,” despite earlier reports that the suspect was detained. No suspects were detained.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox, Posted On X, he will “continue to share updates” and “the person in charge will be fully responsible”.

He wrote: “Violence has no place in our public life. Every politically persuasive American must unite to condemn this act. Our prayers are with Charlie, his family, and all those affected.”

Utah Senator Mike Lee, Posted Shortly after reports on X that Kirk was shot, he said he was “stalking closely at Utah Valley University.

Donald Trump Write About the Truth Social: “We all have to pray for Charlie Kirk who was shot. A good man from top to bottom. God bless him!”

JD Vance, Vice President, Tweets: “Pray for the real good and young father, Charlie Kirk.” Those emotions are echo On Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: “Pray for Charlie Kirk. An incredible Christian, American and human. May the healing hand of Jesus Christ fall on him.”

FBI Director Kash Patel, explain The FBI is “closely monitoring reports of tragic shootings involving Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University…Agents will be on the scene quickly, with the FBI fully supporting the ongoing response and investigation.”

Witnesses told The Guardian that Kirk was asked about the mass shooting when he was shot in the neck.

Emma Pitts, a news reporter who participated in the event, said Kirk was “about mass shootings” on his second question.

“The people he debated asked him if he knew how many mass shootings were there in the trans shooters Kirk responded to,” Pitts said. Then, “he asked how many mass shootings there were,” he asked. [there] In the past few years, we heard gunfire before he could not even answer, and we just saw Charlie Kirk’s neck turn to the side, and it seemed he had been shot. ”

“There is blood, there’s a lot of blood right away,” Pitts said. “After shooting, everyone fell to the ground immediately…we just wanted to hide.”

Then, Pitts said, “Everyone started running away.”

Eva Terry, another Deseret news reporter who participated in the event, told The Guardian that the direction of the camera looked “from the middle of the audience to the right.”

Terry said in describing the suspect that he looked like “an elderly gentleman who probably wore clothes that looked like a worker’s uniform, probably in the late 1950s and 1960s.”

The shooting was quickly condemned by California Gov. Gavin Newsom explain “The attack on Charlie Kirk” is “disgusting, evil and reprehensible. In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in all its forms.”

Not long before the shooting, Kirk Tweets: “We are. Return. Utah Valley University was fired and ready for the first stop of its return trip to the United States.”