Suspect of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk shooting at large

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US conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who is an influential ally of President Donald Trump, was shot dead at Utah University on Wednesday, which made a riot for a lonely sniper, about which the governor said he had a political assassination.

Authorities said they had no suspicion until Wednesday night, during a program by 3,000 people at Utah Valley University campus in Utah, Utah, during a program, a few hours after Utah’s mid -day shooting.

Lone offender suspects that he was suspected of firing with a bullet in which Kirk, 31, was killed, apparently from remote roof sniper nest, “widespread”, “widespread, Utah Department of Public Safety, Commissioner of Public Safety.

State police issued a statement Wednesday night stating that two persons were detained and one was questioned by law enforcement agencies, but the two were released after that.

“There is no current relationship with any of these individuals with shooting,” the statement said. “There is an ongoing investigation and riot for the shooter.”

In a video message tapped at the Oval Office and the truth of Trump was posted on the social online platform, the president expressed his commitment that his administration would find the suspect.

“My administration will find each of the people who participated in the atrocities and other political violence, including organizations who fund and support it,” Trump said.

The cellphone’s video clips posted online showed that Kirk addressed a large outer crowd on campus, about 40 40 miles (64 km) south of Salt Lake City, at 12:30 am, when the shooting was shot. Kirk raised his hand towards his neck when he fell from his chair, and sent the spectators to run.

In another clip, immediately shoot. Later, Kirk’s neck was bleeding.

Jeff Long, chief of the University Police Department, said he had six officers and contacted the head of Kirk’s private security team, which was also on the site.

Trump ordered all government flags to be blow up in half of the crew by Sunday in honor of Kirk.

The murder was the latest in connection with attacks on US political figures, including two attempts to assassinate Trump last year, which has called for a rapid increase in political violence.

“This is a dark day for our state, it is a tragic day for our nation.” “I want to be very clear that this is a political murder.”

With the suspect, there was still no clear evidence of the stimulus of the violence, on a large scale.

Trump, who uses routine political rivals, judges and others who stand as a “radical left crazy” on their way, and warns that they are an existential threat to the nation, rejected violent political rhetoric.

“For years, the radical leftist people have compared amazing Americans like Charlie to the Nazis and the world’s worst collective killers and criminals,” Trump said in the video.

“Such rhetoric is directly responsible for the terror that we are seeing in our country today, and it should be stopped right now.”

At Capital Hill in Washington, an American home representative tried to witness a moment’s silence for Kirk on the floor.

On Wednesday, Kirk’s appearance was the first in the 15 -event “American return tour” in the country’s universities. He often used events that usually attracted a large crowd of students, to invite participants to discuss directly.

Asked about the firing, then shot

According to several videos of the event posted online, a second before shooting it, a married father of two young children was questioned by a member of the audience about gun violence.

“Do you know how many widespread shooters have been in the United States in the last 10 years?” Kirk was asked.

He replied, “Not counting or counting gang violence?” He was shot after moments.

Kirk and the group, which they laid a joint, the country’s largest conservative youth organization, Point USA, played a key role in supporting young voters for Trump in November.

After winning his second presidential term, Trump relied on Kirk to mobilize young voters and colorful voters in support of his campaign.

“You had a turning point in a rally in Phoenix in December,” Trump said in a Phoenix. ” “This is not my victory, this is your victory.”

There were 5.3 million followers on Kirk’s X and hosted a famous podcast and radio program, “Charlie Kirk Show”. He recently appeared as a guest host in Fox News’s “Fox and Friends”.

He was part of Trump’s pro -conservative influence environmental system. Which includes Jack Posobic, Laura Loomer, Candy Oven and others-who helped to enhance the president’s agenda. Kirk often attacked the mainstream media and engaged in the war of culture, gender and immigration, often in a provocative manner.

In the White House, staff members, many of whom were young and fans of Kirk, faced anxiety with news reports of firing news.

Political violence at the height

Republican and Democratic politicians expressed their disappointment equally at the firing.

Democratic House minority leader Hakim Jefferiz said in a statement: “Political violence against any kind and any person is unacceptable and fully compatible with US values. We pray for his family during this tragedy.”

The United States has been going through the most permanent period of its political violence since the 1970s. Reuters on January 6, 2021, Trump’s supporters attacked the US capital.

In July 2024, Republican Trump was stolen from a gunman during a campaign in Pennsylvania’s Butler. On Thursday, another attempt to murder was foiled two months later at the trial of the suspect, the arguments were opened in the trial of the suspect.

In April, a fire broke out at the residence of Josh Shapiro, the governor of the democratic Pennsylvania, and was inside the family.

Earlier this year, a gunman in Minnesota killed a Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hartman and her husband and shot Democratic Senator John Hafman and his wife. And in Colorado’s bolder, a man created a temporary flame to attack Israeli hostages and used Molotov cocktail, killing a woman and injuring at least six.

In 2022, a man Democratic entered the house of Nancy Pelosi, a speaker of the house and released her husband with a hammer, leaving her skull fractures and other injuries. In 2020, a group of right -wing militia members made failed to kidnap Democrat, Michigan Governor Greenchin Whiter.