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Livethread: Charlie Kirk Shot (and killed) at Utah Event (apnews.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by deforestgump@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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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:

4:42 ET:

4:46 ET:

4:55 ET:

5:00 ET: BBC What we know, what we don't:

5:50 ET:

6:04 ET:

  • AP what the videos show:

  • 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:

6:25 ET:

6:32 ET:

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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[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I do wonder if he'll now go down as some hero

also I still can't believe someone just shot the guy

such a frequent face and voice on my feed over the years

always felt like he'd be seen as a bit of a joke in 10 years time. More recently he started to get some mainstream cred but was still sort of seen as like... a Ben Shapiro getting angry at children's movies type figure...

... then someone just went and shot him in the fucking neck...

I feel a bit of sympathy for him because I don't think he ever imagined it would come to that - yes I know he's a smug racist asshole - but even when he pissed me off I mainly just wished someone would punch him in the face a few times. Hadn't even considered someone would ever shoot him.

When you think assassination you think MLK, JFK, Trump, Lennon, and so on and on - all these 'great men' of history - and then here's this grifting shithead who's going to end up with a statue that grins over the new Dennis Prager wing of the Whitehouse.

EDIT: forgot he created TPUSA, fuck that guy

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He was spreading transphobia up until the moment he was shot, specifically blaming mass shootings on trans people. I feel more sympathy for pond scum.

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I just saw the clip of him beforehand throwing maga hats around like a bellend, winking and all that, any video I see of him other than the one he gets shot in makes me realise it's no tragedy that he's gone

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Its not bad to be empathetic its good that you care for humans that you see coming to harm, just don't forget this was a rabid beast not a human person who would care about you the same way you're showing them :)

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's good that he's dead and I couldn't be happier I hope his family is devastated

[–] prole@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

I hope his family doesn't care that much because they're all better than ~~him~~ he was, but I have a feeling that's not the case

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 1 points 22 hours ago

The kids don't deserve it (not that their reaction should factor into evaluating the killing, it's just an unfortunate fact). The spouse obviously deserves it a thousand times over and so does the rest of his family that didn't disown him, especially his dad (who was a piece of shit in his own right iirc).