[See updated story HERE.] [Graphic video below.] Charlie Kirk, a prominent conservative figure, close Trump ally, and head of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), was shot on Wednesday while appearing at an event in Utah.
Clips shared across social media showed Kirk being hit while addressing attendees under a tent in the courtyard of Utah Valley University. The event was part of The American Comeback Tour organized by the school’s TPUSA chapter. Other videos captured students scrambling for safety as the sound of gunfire echoed through campus.
TPUSA confirmed to Fox News that Kirk had been struck by gunfire, though details of his condition were not immediately available.
Senator Mike Lee of Utah quickly posted on X after the incident, writing that he is “tracking the situation at Utah Valley University closely. Please join me in praying for Charlie Kirk and the students gathered there.”
Another Utah senator, Ashley Moody, also commented online, noting, “my office is monitoring the situation at Utah Valley University. I pray for Charlie Kirk, the students, and this nation.”
Officials from Utah Valley University’s police department confirmed to the Guardian that shots had indeed been fired on the grounds of the school.
President Trump addressed the shooting on his social media site, Truth Social.
“We must all pray for Charlie Kirk, who has been shot,” Trump wrote. “A great guy from top to bottom. GOD BLESS HIM!”
Vice President JD Vance wrote on social media: “Say a prayer for Charlie Kirk, a genuinely good guy and a young father.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth added his support, saying, “Prayers for Charlie Kirk. An incredible Christian, American, and human being. May the healing hand of Jesus Christ be upon him.”
FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau is “closely monitoring reports of the tragic shooting involving Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University … Agents will be on the scene quickly and the FBI stands in full support of the ongoing response and investigation.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom also denounced the attack, calling it “disgusting, vile, and reprehensible. In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.”
Just prior to the gunfire, Kirk himself had shared a message on X, posting: “WE. ARE. SO. BACK. Utah Valley University is FIRED UP and READY for the first stop back on the American Comeback Tour.”
GRAPHIC VIDEO: The moment Charlie Kirk was shot:
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Just remember as long as you’re a liberal cook you have a right to opinions and speech whatever you wanna say whatever you wanna think but if you’re conservative you need to be silenced and there will be no talk on the left of the radicals. You’ll hear something like the right provoked.
Someone by the name of Omar posted yesterday: “Charlie Kirk is coming to my college tomorrow i rlly hope someone evaporates him literally”
He then followed with: “Let’s just say something big will happen tomorrow.”
Take a breath, don your flak jacket and helmet, strap on your handgun. Won’t be much shouting down the 2nd Amendment, regardless of the comma placing, now.