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Update: potential shooter in custody (https://x.com/justin_hicken/status/1965848958464569704)
Update 2: There is footage which shows Charlie Kirk taking what seems to be a fatal gunshot to the neck. I will not post it here.
Update 3: Hasan Piker watched the clip on stream and confirmed that Kirk took the fatal shot. Piker was visibly shaken as he was supposed to debate Kirk at Dartmouth University in 15 days.
Update 4: Kirk has been hospitalized (https://www.foxnews.com/us/charlie-kirk-shot-utah-event-hospitalized)
Update 3:17 ET: BBC is reporting that the gunman is NOT in custody (https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c206zm81z4gt?post=asset%3Ac035788b-e6fb-4fbc-9265-7d60e5e027af#post)
3:27 ET: BBC now reports from university security that gunman is in custody:
3:47 ET: CBS Reporter @JenniferJJacobs: "A Turning Point USA official says Charlie Kirk is at the hospital but "it doesn’t look good.” Confirmed Kirk was shot in the neck. @CBSNews" (https://x.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1965863480499868145)
3:48 ET: AP Reports that Charlie Kirk is in critical condition. (https://apnews.com/live/utah-valley-university-charlie-kirk-shooting-updates#00000199-3528-de36-a9f9-777f0f350000)
3:55 ET: Kirk was in a debate at the "Prove Me Wrong Table" (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/10/us/charlie-kirk-shot-utah/37c9c0ac-f695-504a-8ff6-d9ab2a3078e1):
3:59 ET: Shot came from 200 yards away (https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c206zm81z4gt?post=asset%3Af64761ff-6c89-48a8-81b7-a975947a1f30#post)
4:04 ET: NYT: Old man in custody is NOT actually the shooter. The police have determined that a person who was taken into custody after the shooting was not actually the shooter, according to Scott Trotter, a university spokesman. The university had earlier said a suspect was in custody, and videos online showed an older man being detained by police officers. (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/10/us/charlie-kirk-shot-utah/4ad76cd0-57e9-5b4a-b7b8-acb2e2a58026)
4:15 ET: Desert News Reporter: Utah Speaker Mike Schultz confirms Charlie Kirk is dead. (https://x.com/BrighamTomco/status/1965871381419352506)
4:17 ET: Suspect not in custody, University says (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/live-updates-shooting-charlie-kirk-event-utah-rcna230437/rcrd88079?canonicalCard=true)
4:26 ET: Real America's Voice is reporting that Charlie Kirk has died (https://x.com/willsommer/status/1965873708163346786)
4:29 ET:
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Suspect in custody released (https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c206zm81z4gt?post=asset%3A969f3817-1fa8-4e7d-9098-1ef173612f76#post)
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President Trump refer's to Kirk in past tense (https://x.com/diana_nerozzi/status/1965872770946158801)
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AP Person taken into custody after Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah is not believed to be shooting suspect, AP source says (https://apnews.com/live/utah-valley-university-charlie-kirk-shooting-updates#00000199-3551-dba2-a5f9-f77b4ae80000)
4:42 ET:
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Police officiers are going building to building and escorting people off campus, Utah Valley University said on social media. Roads to the campus are closed, the university said. (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/10/us/charlie-kirk-shot-utah/57042e4f-2c2d-5d74-95e0-dc3638acc3f0)
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Charlie Kirk fatally shot at Utah State Valley University (https://nypost.com/2025/09/10/us-news/charlie-kirk-possibly-targeted-in-shooting-at-utah-valley-university-event-during-his-american-comeback-tour/)
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President Trump confirms Charlie Kirk has died (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115181934991844419)
4:46 ET:
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Andrew Kolvet, Kirk’s spokesman, says Kirk is dead. (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/10/us/charlie-kirk-shot-utah/38de36db-1ded-5a7e-9ca9-3723b4efc275)
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AP calls it (https://apnews.com/live/utah-valley-university-charlie-kirk-shooting-updates#00000199-355b-defb-afb9-375b2f950000)
4:55 ET:
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Location of Shooting (https://apnews.com/live/utah-valley-university-charlie-kirk-shooting-updates#00000199-3561-d313-a9fb-3d7df54a0000)
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Five Sources report Kirk has died (https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c206zm81z4gt?post=asset%3A655e0719-5188-4759-ab2f-342ec5029e21#post)
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Authorities still in pursuit of shooter (https://apnews.com/live/utah-valley-university-charlie-kirk-shooting-updates#00000199-3562-df88-a3bd-35e605ad0000)
5:00 ET: BBC What we know, what we don't:
5:50 ET:
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Utah Valley University officials encouraged students who are still on campus, or who had taken shelter in university buildings after the shooting, to call for a police escort. “Police will come and escort you out of the building,” the university wrote on social media. (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/10/us/charlie-kirk-shot-utah/a51724ab-fdd1-5da2-83fe-4aeee8b67471)
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Trump lowers White House flag to flaccid (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/10/us/charlie-kirk-shot-utah/a51724ab-fdd1-5da2-83fe-4aeee8b67471)
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6:04 ET:
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AP what the videos show:
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BBC recants earlier reporting about where the shot took place:
6:10 ET: Video surfaces on twitter of what appears to be a shooter on the roof of a building (https://x.com/doug_zimmer1/status/1965866141970215038)
6:15 ET:
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Police Press Conference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ_vb_olWQ4)
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InfoWar loser seem to think Israel was responsible (https://x.com/realchasegeiser/status/1965895909398720794)
6:25 ET:
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FBI Director says a suspect is in custody (https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1965903392934633587)
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RFKKK Jr. Pours one out (https://apnews.com/live/utah-valley-university-charlie-kirk-shooting-updates#00000199-35af-d49f-a99f-3fefa91e0000)
6:32 ET:
- Beau Mason, commissioner of the Utah Department of Public Safety, said he there is still an active investigation for the person of interest, who is still at large. That directly contradicts a social media post from the F.B.I. Director Kash Patel, who said a suspect “is now in custody.” (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/10/us/charlie-kirk-shot-utah/f73c07b1-38bb-505c-95be-2cc80897b4e6)
Press Conference:
- Utah Gov Cox says a "person of interest" is in custody but speaks to 'whoever did this' (Press Conf).
- That person isn't suspect 'Zynn'.
- Person in custody being charged with Obstruction of Justice
- Kirk killed with single shot:
- That was a weird fucking press conference. [6:42 ET]
NBC News Summary of Press Conference:
I think that's all I got for now folks! Thanks for following. [6:50 ET]
9:17 ET: AP reports no one is currently in custody: 
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I think he always wanted something like this but never expected to die. His whole thing was going on college campuses with private security and riling up the libs. It would have been appropriate for his brand had some woke college kid try to shoot him but then fail.
Good riddance though. Rest in piss. Enjoy hell, you utter piece of shit. One of the most rotten people to have ever lived. Professional racist, transphobe, and Zionism apologist. What a fucking waste of life and free will. Fuck that guy and I hope the rest of his reactionary ilk learn to shut the fuck up.
Libs already in overdrive rebranding him as a "free speech" champion. That and the usual slowjerk any time a right wing figure gets comeuppance
Motherfuckers would be out here like sure Goebbels was controversial, but first and foremost he was a husband and a father
No, first and foremost he was a racist piece of shit and those kids are better off without him as a father figure.
First and foremost he is a corpse without a neck :)
Also like I might be blurring these types of figure together but didn't something come out a few years ago that he was shitty husband, like shouting at his pregnant wife to buy her own ice cream
That was Steven Crowder IIRC
He's not Goebbels level, maybe Streicher
maybe the shittiest possible Horst Wessel, but Ashli Babbit might have already taken that one
Maybe more of a Herbert Norkus
Hexbear Glup Shitto hours, who up?
Fucking liberals
CNN like "wow Hitler had a girlfriend, you know?"
Dog lover sadly takes own life
i read that his young kids were at the event so I do feel bad for them having to potentially witness that. crabs out for his death though still.
They won't shut up, they never do because they have the power and money
I mean the talking heads specifically. I know the actual capitalist ghouls have the power, but their little minion Torgos are endlessly annoying and provide nothing of value. I hate that simply being annoying and a fascist is a job now. I want Ben Shapiro to fear for his life now and disappear from the public. God I'd love that.
I'd like Ben Shapiro to disappear from the public in like, a gout of oily green flame
Yeah, they won't shut up. It's their job to whine and moan about everything.
As much as I hate to admit it, this is actually really bad
Maybe, though if the killer is right wing, maybe a Fuentes fan, that could lead down some fun roads.
It was already really bad. I don't think this will make anything worse. I mean, they would love to, bud there isn't much more momentum to add here
Political assassinations happening more frequently is like, really bad. The rights response to this will be to double down on extremist rhetoric.
There's no offramp here and it doesn't end well
There are no communists anywhere near public figure status in America. While I disagree with campaigns of political assassination as a tactic, if people start killing politicians in America they’ll literally only be killing right wingers, just statistically speaking.
Private individuals can also be the target of stochastic terror, all fun and games until someone guns down your local food not bombs
Do we really think there wasn’t a decent chance of that in America before this happened? There’s right wing terror over there constantly. They have a whole government dedicated to it.
Of course but it's not like it's a binary, like we weren't going to do terror but then Kirk gets killed and now we will. It's about the deterioration of stability, about the normalization of violence and the desensitization of the public to violent rhetoric. These are the cracks in the gear. Without repair they compound and the tooth breaks loose.
I certainly agree with you that it’s real years of lead hours in the US. I just think the violence has been there. If you’re black in America political terror has been happening to you for literal centuries. Gaza, also an American product. Mass shootings every day for decades. Someone already tried to kill trump twice and got real close. Luigi of course.
It kinda feels like the ship sailed on political violence. I’m not sure how that genie gets put back in the bottle at this point. Political violence IS America.
Good take, and I had a similar thought listening to one of the thumb cops at the press conference bemoan that this is where 250 years of American history has led us. Like yes, obviously, this is a genocidal settler colonial state, political violence is in its DNA. What's coming is the chickens coming home to roost. That doesn't mean I want to hang around for it
The violence in American culture is a cancer that's eating it alive. And for a long time access to money and power helped you protect yourself, isolate yourself from it - whether via security or privacy or your potential enemies having too much too lose - but cancer spreads until it consumed everything if you don't actually fight it. It's nothing new, nothing that wasn't tearing at the majority of the country. It's just spreading to the minority of people who thought it wouldn't spread to them.
No, all these people should go the way of the Romanovs. Politics is fundamentally violence, it's fine as long as your side wins the debate. Today the fascist lost.
They are already teying to go full nazi.
That has been a thing for a long time. This event isn't going to be the last straw
Megamind dying or reactionaries not shutting up?
The latter clearly, the former is profoundly enjoyable
Thought so, just curious!
Utah passing that Open Carry on College Campus law really ruined his grift.
Finally, a good guy with a gun
Here's his last words:
He died doing what he loved, what can I say?