US conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot by an unknown aggressor during an event held on Wednesday, Utah, according to Reuters.
Here are some of the best known information about Kirk:
- At the age of 18, he was a co -founder of “Turning Point USA”, an organization dedicated to promoting conservative causes on the university campuses and among the young voters.
- In 2019, he founded Turning Point Action (TPA), a non-profvocity group that supports conservative candidates entered in the race for public functions.
- The TPA has frequently organized large rallies with conservative speakers, including US President Donald Trump. Kirk is considered one of the leaders of Make America Great Again (Maga) of Trump.
- Kirk supported Trump's false statements that Republican lost the 2020 elections due to an election fraud.
- Trump frequently recognized Kirk's merit because he has attracted more young and colorful young people in support of his successful election campaign of 2024.
- Kirk's podcast had over 500,000 listeners monthly, and his account on the X social platform has 5.3 million followers.
- Kirk, who was 31, was married, being the father of two children.
The right -wing activist and commentator Charlie Kirk, an influential ally by President Donald Trump, was deadly shot on Wednesday, during an event at an Utah university, the White House leader announced.
“The great and even the legendary Charlie Kirk died. No one understood and won the soul of young people from the United States better than him. He was loved and admired by all, especially me, and now he is no longer among us. Melania and we transmit condolences to his wife, Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!”
A university spokesman said the police have no suspect in custody. Previously, the higher education institution announced that a person had been detained.
The video clips with the incident, filmed with the mobile phone and published on the social networks, show Kirk addressing a numerous outdoor crowd, on the campus of Utah Valley, Utah, when a powerful bump was heard, which seemed to be a firearm. Kirk took his hand to his neck as he fell from his chair, and the participants began to run.
In another clip, blood could be seen flowing from Kirk's neck immediately after the shot. Reuters mentions that he has not confirmed the authenticity of these video recordings.
Kirk and the Advocacy group that he co -founded, Turning Point USA, the largest conservative youth organization in the country, played a key role in mobilizing young voters in favor of Trump in November last year.
Kirk's Wednesday's appearance was the first of a series of 15 planned events, entitled “American Comeback Tour”, at universities from all over the country. He often used such events, which usually attracted large crowds of students, to invite participants to debate with him live. Before he was shot, Kirk was sitting at what he was calling the table “Prove Me Wrong”.
“We. We have returned. Utah Valley University is excited and ready for the first stop in the American Comeback Tour tournament,” Kirk wrote, in a message published on the social network X, before the event.
After winning the second presidential term, Trump was satisfied with Kirk for mobilizing young people and color voters in support of his campaign.
“You had the basic armies of Turning Point,” Trump said, at a meeting in Phoenix in December. “It is not my victory, it is your victory,” added the Republican, at that time.
Kirk had 5.3 million followers on the X network and had a podcast and a popular radio program, “The Charlie Kirk Show”. He also recently presented “Fox & Friends”, broadcast on the Fox News channel.
He was part of an ecosystem of conservative pro-trump influencers-including Jack Posobiec, Laura Loom, Candace Owens and others-who contributed to the amplification of the American president's agenda. Kirk frequently attacked the mainstream media and became involved in cultural war issues around races, genre and immigration, often in a provocative style.
Although the reason for its shooting is not known, the United States crosses the longest period of political violence since the 1970s. Reuters has documented over 300 cases of violent acts with political motivation since Trump's supporters attacked the US chapter on January 6, 2021.
In July 2024, Trump was touched by the bullet of a shooter during a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania. A second attempt to assassinate, two months later, was dismantled by federal agents.
In April, a piroman entered the residence of the Governor Pennsylvaniei, Josh Shapiro, and set fire to him as his family was inside.
Previously this year, an armed man who was given as a policeman in Minnesota killed Melissa Hortman, a member of the state legislature, and her husband, and shot Senator John Hoffman and his wife. And in Boulder, Colorado, a man used an improvised flame thrower and Molotov cocktails to attack a solidarity event for Israeli hostages, killing a woman and hurting at least six other people.
Both Republican and Democratic politicians have expressed their support for Kirk following shooting.
“Give her eternal rest, Lord,” wrote the vice-president JD Vance, who was close to Kirk, also on the social network X.
“The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, low and condemnable,” said California's Democratic Governor, Gavin Newsom, on the same social network. “In the United States, we must reject political violence in any form,” the governor added.
At the White House, the members of the staff, many of them young and admirers of Charlie Kirk, were pale when the news of the shooting of influence was spread.
