Conservative political commentator Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Sept. 10, while speaking in front of a large crowd as part of a campus speaking tour.
Kirk was only a few minutes into his event at Utah Valley University, in Orem, Utah, when he was struck by gunfire.
The stop at Utah Valley University was to be the opening event in his “American Comeback Tour.”
President Donald Trump, in a post on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday afternoon, announced Kirk had died.
“The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead,” Trump wrote.
“No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie….
Witnesses Recount Scene of Charlie Kirk Assassination
