Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk shot dead at Utah event

In USA, conservative activist and popular influencer Charlie Kirk, 31, was fatally shot on Wednesday, September 10, during an appearance at a campus event in Utah. The shooting happened around 12:20 pm local time during a student Q&A at UVU in Orem, per a statement from Utah Valley University (UVU). The death was announced on social media by Trump, who praised the 31-year-old Kirk, the co-founder and CEO of the youth organization Turning Point USA, as "Great, and even Legendary." "No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie," Trump posted on his Truth Social account.He also blamed the “radical left” for Kirk's murder, accusing them of comparing people like Kirk to "Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals."
Kirk died doing what made him a potent political force — rallying the right on a college campus, this time Utah Valley University. His shooting is one of an escalating number of attacks on political figures, from the assassination of a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota to last summer’s shooting of Trump, that have roiled the nation.The suspected shooter has not been arrested, Orem, Utah, Mayor David Young said. A person who was taken into custody by law enforcement at the university where Kirk was speaking was not the suspect, according to a person familiar with the investigation who was not authorized to speak publicly.
Videos posted to social media from Utah Valley University showed Kirk speaking into a handheld microphone while sitting under a white tent emblazoned with the slogans “The American Comeback” and “Prove Me Wrong.” A single shot rang out and Kirk could be seen recoiling as a large volume of blood gushed from the left side of his neck. Stunned spectators were heard gasping and screaming before people started to run away. Kirk was hospitalized in critical condition, before Trump later announced that he had died.