- The US authorities are continuing to search for an activist shooter.
- Authorities published a video capturing the suspect’s escape.
- Forensic analysis examines traces and found weapon.
- A significant activist Kirk posthumously won the presidential medal of Freedom.
The US authorities are also looking for a shooter who killed the right-wing-conservative activist Charlie Kirk. At a press conference on Thursday evening local time (Night on Friday CEST), they published a video capturing the escape suspected of the shooting attack and asked the public for help to identify it. So far, they have received more than 7000 potential traces and tips, most since the investigation of the bomb attack during the Boston Marathon in 2013. TASR reports this according to the BBC server.
Kirk († 31) He was killed by a single shot from a distance from the roof of the building during its Wednesday’s performance at the University event in Orem, Utah. Even after more than 24 hours after the shooting, the attacker was unable to identify and is on the run. The authorities have previously published several photos with a man in a black long -sleeved T -shirt, a cap, with sunglasses and a backpack.
In the new video, you can see how the suspicious runs on the roof of the building, where the shot fell, jumps to the ground and runs to the wooded area. According to the authorities, he left several traces. “Without the help of the public, we cannot do our job,” He announced at a press conference by the Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox. According to him, “a lot of forensic evidence” is being processed at the state and federal level. The aim is for the death penalty, to call and call on the public to continue sending the image materials to the Federal Office for Investigation (FBI).
Cox at the same time pointed out a huge amount of misinformations that about Events circulate on the Internet also through “Russian and Chinese” automated accounts on social networks, and urged people not to spread them further.
The FBI offers $ 100,000 for the offender’s information. Investigators have not yet publicly presented any possible motive. They are currently exploring the possible traces of the attacker, including the palm of the palm and shoes found near the crime scene, as well as a rifle hidden in a towel in the wooded area near the road that the shooter escaped. Weapon and ammunition are subjected to forensic analysis.
Kirk was the director and co -founder of the Conservative Youth Organization called Turning Point USA and an important ally and supporter of US President Donald Trump. He also became an influential political force among young Republicans and was a permanent figure at universities where he sometimes evoked stormy discussions on social issues, AP wrote. Trump posthumously grants him the highest civilian honor of the US, the presidential medal of Freedom.
