>Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA founder, dead at 31 after Utah campus shooting
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<Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA, is dead after being shot during a campus event at Utah Valley University Wednesday.
<President Donald Trump confirmed Kirk's death in a post on Truth Social.
<"The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us," Trump wrote. "Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!"
<Kirk died after he was taken to a hospital in critical condition after being shot Wednesday at a Utah event, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
<Video posted from the event appeared to show Kirk being shot as he spoke to the crowd from under a white pop-up tent. After the shot, the crowd dispersed, with onlookers shouting, "Run, run, run!"
<Treanor said the shooting happened at about 12:20 p.m.
>Trump and Leaders Across Political Spectrum React to Charlie Kirk Shooting
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<The shooting of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday at Utah Valley University prompted an outpouring of reaction from across the political spectrum, with some calling for prayers and others immediately casting blame.
<President Trump, who considers Mr. Kirk a close ally, wrote on his Truth Social platform, “We must all pray for Charlie Kirk, who has been shot. A great guy from top to bottom. GOD BLESS HIM!”
<Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director and a former right-wing podcast host, wrote on X that the F.B.I. was “closely monitoring” the situation.
<“Our thoughts are with Charlie, his loved ones, and everyone affected,” he wrote. “Agents will be on the scene quickly and the FBI stands in full support of the ongoing response and investigation.”
<Others immediately focused on what larger political issues were to blame for the shooting. Elon Musk declared on X that “The Left is the party of murder.”
<Harrison Smith, an InfoWars host, blamed the “fostering of extremism, the encouraging of the most radical and violent elements of the Democratic Party, constantly telling this swath of mentally ill people that they’re under attack, that fascism is coming, that they have to stand up and fight and arm yourselves — and this is almost the inevitable outcome.”
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