Charlie Kirk shooting: police search for suspect amid condemnation of ‘targeted’ killing | Charlie Kirk shooting
The US officials were looking for a suspect in the shooting of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and hours after Donald Trump’s close ally, he was killed at a Utah University, condemnation of both politics and serious threats by the president.
Utah, the Ministry of Public Security, said in a statement that he worked with the FBI and local police departments and said, “This fire is still an active investigation.”
Two suspects were detained, but later released. Although the Governor of Utah Spencer Cox remained clear, he called it “political assassination ..
Utah Public Security Department Commissioner Beau Mason said that the researchers examined the security camera footage of the suspect, wearing dark clothes and probably firing a “longer -distance shot from a roof”.
In a video message from the oval office, Trump promised that his administration would follow the suspect.
“My management will find each of those who contribute to this savagery and other political violence, including this savagery and financing and supporting organizations,” Trump said.
Kirk was shot while addressing the crowd of 3,000 people at Utah Valley University in Orem near Salt Lake City. Online video images showed that Kirk was questioned about the weapon violence in moments before withdrawing by an audience member.
Video images indicate that students are trying to escape the gunshot. Authorities said Kirk was transferred to a nearby hospital where he died later.
Local officials said that the shoot is believed to be a targeted attack by a shooter from the roof of a building.
While his death caused anger from the Democrats and Republicans, the President ordered the flags to be reduced to semi -poles to honor him.
“This is a dark day for our state. A tragic day for our nation, Co said Cox, a Republican, at a press conference for the end of political violence.
Kirk was the founding partner of Turning Point USA, the largest conservative youth organization of the country, which played an important role in guiding Trump in November.
His appearance in Podcasts and social media brought him fame and bad reputation because he helped strengthen the President’s agenda. Kirk often attacked the mainstream media, and often dealt with cultural war problems in a provocative style of race, gender and migration.
The event in Utah on Wednesday was the first in the “American Return Tour içinde in universities around the country. Often, such activities, which often attracted the crowds of large students, used the participants to invite him to live live discussions.
Experts warned that his death pointed to a basin moment, fear that he could exacerbate a broken country and inspire more unrest.
Trump, who has routinely routine and existential threats to the nation, and the other people standing as “radical left lunatic ,, eliminating violent political rhetoric in his Wednesday night statement.
“Violence and murder are the tragic consequences of demoning what you disagree with… For years, wonderful Americans like Charlie on the radical left compared the Nazis and the world’s worst mass killer and criminals,” he said.
The President, who promised to put pressure on “political violence ,, stated the latest events, including the attempts to his life last year’s life, the murder of United Health Services CEO Brian Thompson, and the 2017 shoot of Republican Congress Member Steve Scalise.
The list of the president did not involve violence against democrats such as the murder of Melissa Hortman, and the attack on the husband of Minnesota state deputies and her husband or former home speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Former president Barack Obama condemned his prayers to Kirk’s wife and two little children as “inferiority .. Joe Biden said that there is no room for such violence in our country ”.
Democratic House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries also expressed a similar feeling: “Political violence against any person and any person is unacceptable and completely incompatible with American values.”
Capitol Hill shouts at the attempt to observe a moment of silence for Kirk on the floor of the House of Representatives and pointed to the finger. Anna Paulina Luna, Republican Representative of Kirk’s Spanish Participation Director, shouted at the Democrats and said, “You caused this!” He said.
This pushed Jahan Hayes, a democratic representative, a leading leader in the power of weapon violence, to shout: “Pass some arms laws!”
According to data compiled by the Reuters News Agency, the US has been under the most sustainable political violence since the 1970s, according to data documenting the case of more than 300 political -motivated violence, which has been motivated more than 300 since the US attacked Capitol on January 6, 6 2021.
In the first six months of the year, the United States experienced an attack on approximately 150 political motivated attacks in the first six months of the year, in the first six months of the year, Mike Jensen Reuters.
“I think we are at a very dangerous point right now, which can easily rise to a more widespread civil unrest if we do not do this,” Jensen said. “This can definitely serve as a kind of shine point that inspires more.”
With Reuters
