Charlie Kirk, conservative political activist and co -founder of Turning Point USA, died after being shot At an event at the University of Utah Valley, this Wednesday (10).
Kirk was invited by a group of students and spoke around 1 pm at the local time when a shot was fired from a campus building about 180 meters from where he was.
At the time of the shooting, people were startled and ran out. A person who recorded the movement of the event filmed the moment people ran.
Utah authorities reported that there is an investigation ongoing. FBI director Kash Patel, said tonight that a person which had been detained earlier was released after interrogation.
After the attack, there was a wave of condemnation of both sides of the dispute For the death of Kirk. He said he was “loved and admired by all, especially by me.”
He also ordered the flags They were in half mast until Sunday.
While Trump reformulated the Republican Party, Kirk embodied the newly discovered populist conservatism of the party in the age of social media. The US president assigned Kirk the merit of galvanizing and mobilizing the young vote to him.
