Charlie Kirk, leading orthodox activist and hardcore trump associates who co-established the turning point USA, was shot on Wednesday while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.
President Trump confirmed the death of a prominent player Kirk in his second election for the presidency last year on his true social account.
“Great, and even mythological, Charlie Kirk, is dead,” Trump wrote.
“No one understood the heart of youth in the United States better than Charlie or not. He is not all, especially me, and now, and now, he is not with us.
The attack came against the backdrop of harassing the rising political violence across the country, a pattern in which Butler, Pa. In a lonely gunman involve a fatal attack on Trump’s life by a lone gunman, which was just 15 months ago.
The 31 -year -old Kirk is alive by his wife, Erica and two children.
The assassination of a conservative activist raises questions harassing political violence and strict lines in American politics that rapidly releases political opponents working like each other’s enemies.
House speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) Hearing the news led to a moment of silence for Kirk.
“We ask all of us to pray for him and his family. I am just going to say that there is a clear state here. Political violence has become very common in American society, and this is not what we are,” Johnson said.
Nevertheless, the moment of silence highlighted the political division.
After the moment of silence, Johnson recognized the rape Lauren Boost (R-colo).
“I believe silent prayers get silent results,” Bobert said. “Is there someone who can lead us in a moment of loud prayer for Charlie and his family -“
In a clear context for Wednesday shooting at a high school in Colorado, Bobert and “-and a shout of” no “as victims and victims in Colorado broke.
An MP who appeared opposing Bobert’s request shouted something about the children.
Rape. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), Which It was said in the first day He was “done with rhetoric due to this rotten house and corrupt media,” shouted back.
“Wait a minute. Wait a minute,” Johnson said. “The house will be in order.”
Shouting back and forth, for several seconds, someone shouted: “Shooting a school in Colorado.”
Usually calm Johnson shouted and beat his gaval: “Home order.”
Kirk Orem was seen as part of a comprehensive “The American Cameback Tour” at Utah Valley University in Utah, participating across the country, who asked Kirk to “prove me wrong”.
In recent years, Kirk College has best known for his visits to the college complexes, during which he will promote conservative ideas, protect Trump and engage in debate with liberal students who disagreed with him.
Videos of their arguments with college students often go viral on social media, serve as fodder for their various media appearances and help them create a fast online personality.
Kirk was engaged in one of the debates on Wednesday, when a shot came out, killing the conservative worker in his neck.
In the event, a participant had asked Cancer how many large -scale firing was fired by the transgender shooters, and then the United States generally had a large -scale firing. In a video, Kirk can be seen asking his questioner whether the number of collective shoots involves gang violence.
The footage of the incident showed a large crowd of students gathering around a tent, under which Kirk was written on the tent with “American comeback” and “prove me wrong”.
A video on X hit Kirk near the neck and later shocked her to her left. Members in the crowd can be heard gasping, “Oh my God!” And started running away.
In another video posted on X, a very close view of the fierce incident was shown, which appeared in the neck to shoot Kirk, before he was shocked to her left with bleeding on her left.
Orem’s mayor, Utah said that the officials were still looking for the shooter suspect,According to Associated Press.
The AP said on Wednesday evening that the armed officers were roaming around the neighborhood during the campus limit, knocking at the door and seeking information about the shooter.
The authorities have been seen looking at a picture on their phone and people are shown to see if they recognize the person of interest.
The officials asked anyone to ‘secure’ at the Utah Valley University after Wednesday shooting. The premises were closed, and a post on the emergency information page of the school told people who still call the officers to get out the premises.
After the establishment of Conservative Student Group Turning Point USA in 2012, Kirk tossed the conservative movement as a political wonderind, even left to attend a university himself.
During the decade after the political landscape, he became a prominent commentator, who were interacting on political priorities and right.
Turning point student activism and “Americanfest” conferences have become major gathering points for young people, which specialize the biggest names in Orthodox politics and Republican Party.
Kirk often talks to Trump and is considered one of the most plugs among political operators on American rights.
In both 2016 and 2020, Kirk was also seen as necessary for Trump’s victory of President, especially in gathering youth and voters for the first time through the activity of grass roots and social media strategy.
Since 2020, Kirk has hosted a national syndicated show on Salem Radio Network, which has joined Huga Havit’s choice on the channel’s line as one of the biggest provider of right -wing audio in the country.
The deadly shoots shocked the MPs, who immediately condemned the attack and presented the worker talking about their views.
“Political violence is never acceptable. My views and prayers are with Charlie Kirk and his family,” House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffrees (DN.Y) wrote on X.
The Senate Majority Leader John Theun (Rs. D) wrote on X, “There is no place in our country for political violence.
“On the attackCharlie KirkIt is disgusting, monotonous and condemnable. In the United States, we should reject political violence in every form, ”California village Gavin NewsomwroteOn X.
Former President Barack Obama wrote on X, “Such low violence has no place in our democracy.”
Former representative Jason Chafetz (R-Yuta) was at the university program in his home state, where Kirk was killed.
“It makes me crazy. I am very crazy that it happened in our backyard. It’s an embarrassment,” he told Fox News Channel.
“We are better than this, but there is someone who is evil, complete total, complete evil and need to be taken down,” he said.
Cancer’s amazing murder comes at an indefinite time in American politics, as there has been an increase in incidents of threatening and quarrel against MPs and other politicians amid growing political violence.
An MP from Minnesota and her husband was murdered in June, in which another MP and her husband were also shot.
Murder near Trump in Butler, Pa. In addition to a second attempt during a campaign rally last year, which he survived in Florida, he has further outlined the increasing dangers and violence that are in front of members of both sides.
During an interview in July, showing the one -year anniversary of Butler shooting, Fox News said, “I hope I had a reason to save my country.”
He said, “We had a country that I do not say dead because it is very strong, but we had a country that was actually very close to ending, in my opinion,” he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
