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As chances are you’ll very nicely have heard this night, Charlie Kirk was shot and killed whereas making a speech in Utah.
The conservative pundit and fashionable podcast host was solely 31 years previous.
Within the wake of this tragedy, these from each side of the aisle have expressed shock, horror and unhappiness over the event… whereas we’ve now discovered {that a} suspect is not in custody.
Charlie Kirk speaks on stage at America Fest 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 22, 2024. (Picture by JOSH EDELSON/AFP through Getty Pictures)
At a press convention Wednesday afternoon, authorities stated an individual of curiosity had been apprehended.
Utah Governor Spencer Cox stated that authorities don’t possess data “that would lead us to believe there there is a second person involved” in what he described as a “political assassination.”
HOWEVER, a pair hours after this announcement was made, FBI Director Kash Patel wrote the next on Twitter:
The topic in custody has been launched after an interrogation by legislation enforcement. Our investigation continues and we are going to proceed to launch data in curiosity of transparency.
Charlie Kirk, founding father of Turning Level Motion, speaks throughout a gathering on the campus of the College of Arizona in Tucson on October 17, 2024. (Picture by OLIVIER TOURON/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Level USA, was about 20 minutes right into a presentation Utah Valley College when the unknnown suspect fired a gunshot from the Losee Middle, a constructing about 200 yards away, college spokesperson Ellen Treanor advised CNN.
Primarily based on CCTV footage, the shooter — who solely fired one shot — was wearing all darkish clothes, the commissioner stated, including:
“I believe this was a targeted attack towards one individual.”
No different data concerning this man or girl is understood presently.
U.S. President Donald Trump shakes palms with conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a discussion board dubbed the Technology Subsequent Summit on the White Home on March 22, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Picture by Mark Wilson/Getty Pictures)
Charlie Kirk is survived by his spouse, former Miss Arizona USA Erika Frantzve, and their two youngsters, a 3-year-old daughter and a 1-year-old son.
“The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead,” President Donald Trump wrote on Fact Social on September 10. “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.”
Later, through an Oval Workplace tackle, Trump stated of the late influencer:
“Charlie’s voice has become bigger and grander than ever before…May God bless his memory.”
