Shooter still at large after Charlie Kirk assassinated

Warning: graphic scenes in the video

Orem, Utah (AFP) He was shot and killed at the Utah College event In what the ruler described as political assassination.

The authorities say Kirk was killed with one shot from the surface of Wednesday. Everyone who released the gun and then slipped amid the chaos of screaming and students who flee from the campus of the University of Utah Valley. The federal, state and local authorities were still searching for an unidentified shooter early Thursday and working on what they called “multiple active crime scenes.”

“This is a dark day for our country. It is a tragic day for our nation,” he saidUtah Ruler Spencer Cox. “I want to be very clear, this is a political assassination.”

Public safety officials in Utah state said that two people were held on Wednesday, but they were not determined to communicate with the shooting and both were released.

The authorities did not define the motivation immediately, but the shooting conditions renewed attention toEdge political violence in the United StatesThis in the past few years has cut the ideological spectrum. The assassination sparked a condemnation from the two parties, but patriotism is an account on ways to prevent political grievances from showing deadly violence, which seemed far -reaching.

The videos posted on social media were published from the University of Utah Valley, Kirk speaking in a hand -handled microphone while sitting under a white tent with slogans “American return” and “Providing me a mistake”. It rings one shot out and can see Kirk reaching his right hand, where a large amount of blood flows from the left side of its neck. The amazing outstanders hear panting and screaming before people start escaping.

Kirk was taking questions about armed violence

Kirk was speaking in a discussion hosted by his non -profit political organization, Tirchona Point, the United States of America, at the Surinsen Center Center on the campus. Immediately before the shooting, Kirk was taking questions from a member of the public about mass shooting and armed violence.

“Do you know how many Americans have been a transgender who have been a collective archers over the past ten years?” The person asked. Kirk responded, “a lot”.

The questioner continued, “Do you know the number of collective archers who have been in America over the past ten years?”

“Counting or not calculating gang violence?” He asked Kirk.

Then rang one shot.

The shooter, Cox, was held accountable in the death penalty of death, wore dark clothes and shot from a roof at a distance.

Madison Latin was just watching a few dozen Kirk’s left when she said she heard the bullet hit Kirk.

She said: “The blood falls and falls and you are very afraid, not only for him but your safety.”

She said that she saw that people were falling on the ground in a strange silence immediately penetrated. Lattin ran while others were launched through decorative swimming pools to move away. Some fell and wiped in a stampede. People lost their shoes, bags, foldable chairs and water bottles in frenzy.

When Lattin later learned that Kerk had died, she said she cried, describing him as a role model, which explained to her how she was identified and fighting for the truth.

Trump calls Kirk “the martyr for the truth”

There were about 3,000 people in the attendance, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Public Safety in Utah. The authorities said that the university police department had six officers working in this event, as well as Kirk’s private security details.

Trump announced the death of social media and 31 -year -old Kerk praised the founder and CEO of the companyturning pointIt is “wonderful, and even legendary.” Later on Wednesday, a video recorded from the White House called Kirk as a “martyr for truth and freedom” released and blamed the “Radical Left” killing speech.

The University of Utah Valley said that the campus was evacuated immediately after the shooting, as officers accompanied people to safety. It will be closed until Monday.

Meanwhile, armed officers walked around the neighborhood that limits the campus, knocking on the doors and asking any information that the residents may have at the shooting. Tariq aircraft public expenditures.

An event that happened on Wednesday, which was described as the first station in “The American Group” of Kerk, created a tight reaction on the campus. He received a petition via the Internet calling on university directors to prevent Kirk from appearing approximately 1,000 signatures. The university issued a statement last week, citing the rights of the first amendment and affirms “its commitment to freedom of expression, intellectual investigation and constructive dialogue.”

Last week, Kirk was posted on X pictures of news clips showing that his visit was causing controversy. He wrote, “What is happening in Utah?”

Conviction

Druo shootingQuick condemnationThe political corridor crossed when Democratic officials joined Trump, who ordered the flags to reduce half to half of the employees and issued a presidential announcement, and Kerk Republican allies in deciphering violence.

“The attack on Charlie Kerk is disgusting, concrete, and deserves impurities,” Democratic governor of California, Gavin New Roosome, who hosted last March Kirk on the podcast, on X.

“The killing of Charlie Kerk breaks my heart. I deepen my sympathy with his wife, two young children and friends,” said Gabriel Jeffords, former Democratic Conference.Which was injured in the shooting of 2011In the Arizona region.

The shooting seemed ready to become part of the high political violence that touched a group of ideologies and representatives of both the two main parties. Includes attacksAn assassination from the legislator in Minnesota and her husbandAt their home in June,Firebombing from the Colorado offer to demand the hostage the release of HamasAndFollow fire in the governor of PennsylvaniaHe is a Jew, in April. The most prominent of these events isThe shooting of Trump during the campaign gathering last year.

A former member of Utah Jason Shaffitz, who was at the Wednesday event, told Fox News that he did not believe that Kirk has enough security.

“Utah is one of the safest places on this planet,” he said. “So we do not have these types of things.”

Turning Point was founded on the outskirts of Chicago in 2012 by Kirk, then 18 years old, William Montgomery, an activist in the Tea Party, to preach the campus of universities to obtain low taxes and a limited government. It was not immediate success.

But Kirk’s enthusiasm for the liberals in the academic circles eventually defeated a influential group of conservative financiers.

Despite early concerns,turning pointTrump was enthusiastic with enthusiastically after receiving the Republican Party nomination in 2016. Kerk worked as a personal assistant to Donald Trump Junior, the older son of the president, during the general election campaign.

Soon after, Kirk was a regular presence on the cable TV, where he bent over the wars of culture and praised the president at the time. Trump and his son were equally advanced and often spoke at a turning point conferences.