Charlie Kirk, 31, the US right-wing influencer and strong MAGA ally and supporter of President Donald Trump shot dead on a Utah University campus during a debate, 10 September 2025, when he was answering questions on gun control.
Cross party commenters condemned the shooting as does Trump, but Trump sites only previous attacks on right-wing Republican supporters and fails to mention Democrat victims.
Today the hunt for the perpetrator is still ongoing. Many students dived then scattered as the shot rang out, which hit him in the neck. Kirk was on his America Comeback Tour, as part of the student group Turning Point USA.
Kirk had openly stated bigoted views and used homophobic and Islamophobic slurs, he recently tweeted “Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.”