Brief bit from THE DAILY CALLER:
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/10/charlie-kirk-turning-point-usa-gunfire-utah/
A source in contact with Kirk’s colleagues told the Daily Caller he is still alive in the hospital, though he lost a significant amount of blood. Another Turning Point USA official confirmed he is alive to CBS News, but said “it doesn’t look good.”
Good reporting from Stephan Dinan at the Washington Times, you can check the link for updates to the story below:
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot Wednesday while holding an event at Utah Valley University.
www.washingtontimes.com
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot at college event; condition unknown, suspect in custody
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Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk speaks during a campaign rally, Oct. 24, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) more >
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot Wednesday while holding an event at Utah Valley University.
His condition was unknown as of 3 p.m. Eastern time.
Video of the event posted to social media showed Mr. Kirk speaking to a large crowd on the university’s quad when a bang is heard and Mr. Kirk’s body twitches. Other videos then show the crowd fleeing the site. Some social media users who said they were at the event said Mr. Kirk was shot in the neck.
FBI Director Kash Patel said he was deploying agents to the scene, and the school, in an alert, confirmed a “single shot was fired on campus toward a visiting speaker.”
“Police are investigating now, suspect in custody,” the school said.
The Deseret News reported the suspect was an “older man.”
President Trump asked for prayers.
“We must all pray for Charlie Kirk, who has been shot. A great guy from top to bottom,” he said on social media.
Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz was at the event.
“I just hope and pray he somehow survives this,” he said on Fox News.
Mr. Chaffetz said there was some police presence but no security screening, and the quad is open to the broader community. He said the shot seemed to come from head-on.
He said it was shocking in a community as safe as Orem.
“We don’t have murders, let alone shootings, let alone something of this magnitude,” he said.
Mr. Kirk, 31, married with two children, was at the school in Orem, Utah, where his group Turning Point USA was hosting a back-to-school event. He engages with students in debating hot-button questions of the day.
The shot rang out when he was answering a question about mass shootings involving transgender suspects.
Mr. Chaffetz said he didn’t think that was a coincidence.
After a shooting last month at a Minnesota school was blamed on a transgender former student, Mr. Kirk was among the conservative activists who raised questions.
“If you are crazy enough to want to hormonally and surgically ’change your sex,’ you have a mental disorder, and you are too crazy to own a firearm,” he said on X.
Photos and video of Wednesday’s event showed Mr. Kirk sitting under a canopy speaking to the crowd.
Before the event, his social media account posted a photo of the large gathering and of him fist-bumping members of the audience.
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords, who was herself wounded in a shooting at an outdoor get-together with her Arizona constituents in 2011, said she was “horrified” by the new attack.
“Democratic societies will always have political disagreements, but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts those disagreements with violence,” said Ms. Giffords, who now leads a gun-control group.
