Charlie Kirk dead at 31 after being shot in the neck in Utah

Charlie Kirk died after being shot on her neck at an event at Utah Valley University.

The 31 -year -old conservative commentator was shot with a single bullet while talking to a crowd at the state university in Orem in the afternoon of Wednesday.

Kirk, who is known for his violent maga views and exciting discussions with university children throughout the country, collapsed immediately after he was shot by gunfire.

Kirk answered just a few seconds before a question about collective shots was hit. He ran to the hospital where he succumbed to their injuries.

Kirk’s murderer continues with a large human hunt by FBI and Utah police.

Kirk leaves a three -year -old daughter and son for 16 months. The couple celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary in May.

President Donald Trump directed the tribute of the late political commentator. “Great and even legendary Charlie Kirk died, Tr Trump wrote on Social.

“ Everyone was especially loved by me and was admired and now not with us. Melania and my sympathy go to her beautiful wife Erika and her family. Charlie, we love you! ‘

The President ordered all American flags to be reduced to half staff until 18:00 in honor of Kirk until Sunday evening.

The 31 -year -old conservative firefighter was talking to the students when someone opened fire at school on Wednesday

Charlie Kirk, his wife Erika Fondzve and a son, three and a daughter, 16 months.

Wearing a white T -shirt, the maga star was sitting in a tent gazebo with a bullet in his neck and caused his head to fall backwards.

Screams were heard in the crowd of young people because the closest ones to Kirk ran to the aid.

UVU officials said that the shooting was fired from the top of Losee Center, about 200 meters away from where he was sitting on Kirk’s college campus.

The police initially detained an elderly man, that was not a shooter.

Uvu spokesman Scott Trotter, “September 10, 2025 at 12:20, Mr. Charlie Kirk started to speak at a planned rally when the Utah Valley University Orem Campus at the near the Food Court fired a shot.” He said.

We can verify that Mr. Kirk was shot, but we don’t know his situation. The suspect is not in custody. The police are still investigating that the campus is closed for the rest of the day. ‘

Utah Governor Charles Cox X said: ‘I just got out of the phone with President Trump. Working with FBI and Utah law enforcement officers, we will bring the individual responsible for this tragedy to justice, ‘Cox X wrote about.

Abby and I broke my heart. We pray for Charlie’s wife, daughter and son, Co Cox added.

45 -year -old Sophie Anderson, who stands 100 meters away from the stage when shooting took place, said Daily Mail was almost chewing while running to the dining court where she was hiding in a cabinet.

Anderson, who participated in the event by his boss Phil Lyman, who distributed a hat just five minutes ago, said, “ It was the second, I knew it was a fiery weapon, ” he said.

“ `Was hit around his neck and fell and just a blood fountain ‘he said. “ They took him. All these children are just falling apart and screaming. ‘

The event is asked questions about security, witnesses claim that there is no metal detector.

Images from the stage showed that the crowd was running while making a single shot

‘He was hit around his neck and fell and it was just a blood fountain,’ ‘

Kirk published an article on X just a few minutes before the emergence of shot reports.

Kirk published an article on X just a few minutes before the emergence of firing reports.

‘WE. There is. FOR THIS REASON. Back, ‘Kirk wrote at 2.23.

‘Utah Valley University was fired and ready to stop the American return tour.’

Utah Valley University emptied the campus after the shoot and canceled the lessons until the next announcement.

The event was the first in Kirk’s ‘Great American Return Tour’.

An online petition, which asked university managers to prevent Kirk’s appearance, received approximately 1000 signatures.

The university made a statement that referred to the rights of the first change last week and confirms its commitment to ‘free speech, intellectual investigation and constructive dialogue’.

The videos sent to social media from Utah Valley University showed that Kirk was talking to a handicated microphone while sitting under a white tent adorned with the slogans of ‘American return’ and said, ‘I wrongly proved me.

A single shot stole, and Kirk stretched with his right hand as a large blood gushing on the left of his neck. The stunned spectators breathed and screamed before people started to escape.

Vice President JD Vance went to social media to ask for a prayer for Kirk before his death was announced.

Vance, “ `a really good man and a young father, Charlie Kirk, tell a prayer for Kirk, ‘Vance wrote.

President Trump praised Kirk after he was deadly shot on Wednesday.

Kirk helped to find Turning Point USA, a conservative profit aiming to encourage conservatism in school campuses.

Republican Utah Senator Mike Lee, ‘I closely follow the situation at the Utah Valley University. Please join me while praying for Charlie Kirk and the students gathered there. ”

Gavin Newsom, the Governor of Democratic California, was one of the first liberals praying for Kirk.

He wrote: ‘The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, inferior and understood. In the United States, we must reject political violence in every way. ‘

Kirk, who was previously called forbes 30’s under -30 -year -old list, was the youngest speaker in the 2016 Republican National Convention and the opening speaker at the 2020 RNC.

Podcast Charlie Kirk show reaches more than 1 million people every day and is usually among the top ten shows on the Apple News Podcast lists.

Kirk helped to find Turning Point USA, a conservative profit -free organization focusing on encouraging conservatism in school campuses.

FBI Director Kash Patel, said the agency was watching the situation.

The stunned spectators breathed and screamed before people started to escape.

After the assignment of right -wing activist and commentator Charlie Kirk during the Utah Valley University Speech Event

“ Our thoughts Charlie, with loved ones and everyone who is affected. Agents will quickly be at the scene and the FBI supports the ongoing response and investigation fully, ” he said.

The attraction comes with an increase in political violence in the United States, all parts of the ideological spectrum.

Among the attacks include a state deputy and husband’s assassination in their homes in June, a fire bombing of the fire in the house of the Pennsylvania governor, the Jewish Governor of Pennsylvania in April.

The most fame of these events is the withdrawal of Trump at a campaign rally last year.