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Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA founder, dead at 31 after Utah campus shooting
- Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA, is dead after being shot during a campus event at Utah Valley University Wednesday.
President Donald Trump confirmed Kirk's death in a post on Truth Social.
"The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us," Trump wrote. "Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!"
Kirk died after he was taken to a hospital in critical condition after being shot Wednesday at a Utah event, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
Video posted from the event appeared to show Kirk being shot as he spoke to the crowd from under a white pop-up tent. After the shot, the crowd dispersed, with onlookers shouting, "Run, run, run!"
Treanor said the shooting happened at about 12:20 p.m.
The suspect is not in custody, Utah Valley University said in a statement.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, UVU spokesperson Ellen Treanor said: "A suspect was in custody initially, but to the best of my knowledge, that individual has been released. Our campus police are currently investigating in conjunction with the Orem police." Fox News Digital has reached out to Orem Police Department for comment.
Campus police on Wednesday afternoon asked students to call a hotline and be escorted off.
In a since-deleted post on Kirk's social media just hours before the attack, the conservative firebrand wrote: "WE. ARE. SO. BACK. Utah Valley University is FIRED UP and READY for the first stop back on the American Comeback Tour."
The fall 2025 leg of the tour began at the Orem, Utah university and is "a nationwide campus tour aimed at equipping students with the tools to push back against leftwing indoctrination in academia and reclaim their right to free speech."
"The Right loved him because he was a fighter.
The Left hated him because he was effective."
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journalist and author Merk Halperin, on Newsmax.And that's why the Left had to kill him, because he was leading a movement that is turning the next generation conservative.
For at least 8 years I've been citing sourced example after example of how radicalized and dangerous the Democrat-Bolshevik Left is.
Luigi Mangione
shooting the CEO of Untied Healthcare to death in New York City.
And then before Mangione was even captured, there were GoFundMe pages that raised almost a million dollars for his legal defense. And polls show a huge percentage of the Democrat/Left thinks it's just wonderful that CEO Brian Thompson was killed.
For WHAT exactly? What proven crime did he commit?
Eight years ago, BLM and Antifa mobs were marching through cities, carrying guillotines and effigy severed heads, invoking the French Revolution.
And actually, Democrat mobs carrying guillotines and effigy severed heads, invoking Jacobinism and the French Revolution, has been part of Democrat/Left protests since at least the Occupy Wall Street movement. That was back in 2011, and the Left's radicalism has just continued to escalate every 2 years in the 15 years since.
https://www.rkmbs.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1163264#Post1163264 And more recently than that, 55% of the Democrat /Left polled thinks it would be "morally right" to assassinate Donald Trump. And only slightly less at 48% think it would be morally right to kill Elon Musk.
Again, for WHAT?!? Just because you don't agree with their political views?
https://nypost.com/2025/04/07/us-ne...assassination-culture-under-trumps-rule/ There were two attempts on Trump's life in the last year, and now this.
And tons of other examples of threats and full-on violence from the Democrats, escalating, for the last 8 years. Assassinating Charlie Kirk is just the latest in a steady stream of Democrat-Bolshevik violence and intimidation.
I'm enraged, but I'm not surprised.
