Free again arrested Trump supporter Charlie Kirk shot at assassination attempt
10.09.2025, 10:48 p.m.The right activist and podcaster Charlie Kirk is shot during a speech. The 31-year-old comes to the hospital immediately. But the doctors can no longer do anything for him. President Trump orders mourning for the United States.
The well-known right US activist Charlie Kirk died shortly after an assassination attempt at a university in the US state of Utah. US President Donald Trump announced death on his online platform Truth Social. The 31-year-old was an important supporter of Trump as a podcaster and activist. The death shooter is fleeting.
Previously, the Utah Valley University had announced in OREM that Kirk had been shot on campus. Around 12.10 p.m. (local time) a shot on the guest speaker was fired from a nearby building. A few hours after the crime, the FBI boss Kash Patel announced that a suspect was taken into custody. After a survey, it is at large again. "Unsere Ermittlungen dauern an"wrote Patel on X. The Republican governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, describes the fatal shot "politisches Attentat". It is a "tragischer Tag für unser Land"he said.
On videos on the Internet you can see how Kirk speaks in front of a large crowd outdoors when a loud bang can be heard. Kirk grabs his neck briefly and falls from his chair. In another clip you can see how it bleeds on the neck after the shot. At the time of the attack, around 3,000 people are said to have been on the site. The event took place in a kind of hollow on campus, said the police chief of Utah Valley University, Jeff Long. Kirk was in a deeper area surrounded by buildings. The federal police have activated a point of view for information on the crime.
Kirk mobilized young voters
At the age of 18, Kirk founded his organization "Turning Point USA". In the period that followed, he became an influential Trump supporter.
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Kirk is the founder of the strictly conservative student organization Turning Point USA. On social media he has an audience of millions, with his "Charlie Kirk Show" he was one of the rangest podcaster in the United States. He played a key role in mobilizing the support of young voters for Trump in the presidential election in November. His events on university premises across the country usually attract many people. Trump wrote in the evening immediately after the death message that Kirk was a legend. "Niemand verstand die Jugend in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika besser als Charlie oder hatte ein solches Gespür für sie. Er wurde von ALLEN geliebt und bewundert, besonders von mir, und jetzt ist er nicht mehr unter uns." Trump ordered mourning in the United States until Sunday.
Democrats also express themselves horrified
"Ewige Ruhe gib ihm, o Herr"wrote US Vice President JD Vance, the Kirk Near, on X. The assassination was also sentenced to the democratic camp. Even before Kirk's death was confirmed, the democratic governor of California, Gavin Newsom, explained to X: "Der Angriff auf Charlie Kirk ist widerlich, abscheulich und verwerflich." Political violence in every form must be rejected in the United States. Former Democratic US President Joe Biden wrote: "Es gibt keinen Platz in unserem Land für diese Art von Gewalt. Sie muss jetzt enden. Jill und ich beten für Charlie Kirks Familie und seine Angehörigen." Former President Barack Obama said: "Wir wissen noch nicht, was die Person motiviert hat, die Charlie Kirk erschossen und getötet hat, aber diese Art von verabscheuungswürdiger Gewalt hat in unserer Demokratie keinen Platz."
In the United States, fatal firearms are part of everyday life. There are always always to be felled at universities. Pistols and weapons of larger calibers are easily accessible and in circulation. Particularly severe attacks always spark debates about tightening weapons law. Kirk himself was a strict defender of the liberal weapons law. The "von Gott gegebenen Rechte" To be able to protect, be it worth the price "einer gewissen Zahl von Schusswaffentoten in jedem Jahr" Accepting, he said at an event in 2023.
