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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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[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I am delighted he is dead, full stop.

But if I’m looking at this in terms of pure strategy, I’m not sure this is good. You had a guy who was annoying but at the end of the day he’s just a (large) talking head. A pro yapper. He is now a martyr and unlike the UnitedHealth CEO, I’m not seeing a lot of general sentiment among normies that people are celebrating. Dunno hope I’m off base here.

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 2 points 20 hours ago

I don't think you get to look at this with the lens of strategy. These things are going to happen. The fascists will react. And other things are going to happen. None of that is within your control. Strategize around the American population becoming more violent and radical the further material conditions deteriorate.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

You had a guy who was annoying but at the end of the day he’s just a (large) talking head.

I don’t entirely agree. Charlie Kirk directly contributed to, and could easily be considered responsible for, an incredible amount of violence directed at marginalized groups and peoples. It’s just not as immediately obvious because he isn’t a health insurance CEO.

We joke a lot about people getting the wall here and well, here’s somebody who actually got it. The major difference between carrying out a court-imposed death sentence and just merking a nazi is that you don’t have to dress up to do the latter.

In terms of strategy, something like this was going to happen sooner or later. If it wasn’t Charlie Kirk it would’ve been Ben Shapiro or someone else. The fascists are going to do what they’re going to do regardless if someone gives them an excuse, and if they really want one then the most murderous empire in world history most definitely has the capacity to manufacture it.

As it stands, I don’t think we get to skip the era of adventurism and go straight to, like, a strategic protracted peoples’ war, whether that’s a good thing or not. I feel like there’s going to be decades of this before anything resembling that even becomes a remote possibility.

[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

How many years were between the hey day of the Narodniks and the October Revolution? curious-marx

Charlie Kirk directly contributed to, and could easily be considered responsible for, an incredible amount of violence directed at marginalized groups and peoples

Is the PragerU public school curriculum still being pushed through in southern states? I agree, the man wasn't fringe or uninfluential. He was on the cusp of indoctrinating possibly hundreds of thousands of young children into hating trans people, believing that slavery and public executions are good things. This may still be a possibility regardless. Fuck him

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

He didn't run PragerU, he ran TPUSA, though he did appear on PragerU many times and you can be sure as shit that they will now feature him even more frequently in their state-enforced indoctrination as a "respectful political advocate who was murdered for his patriotic beliefs by the radical left." What harm has been prevented? Slightly lower-quality "prove me wrong" videos? PragerU only has an extra rhetorical tool, which is that one of their presenters can now be a "martyr," and Kirk was such a worthless worm, especially in the context of pre-recorded presentations, that it's not like their new presentations are going to be that much worse, it just means their older videos with him in them will carry more weight to the uneducated viewer.

[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Fair points all around.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 0 points 1 day ago

We joke a lot about people getting the wall here and well, here’s somebody who actually got it. The major difference between carrying out a court-imposed death sentence and just merking a nazi is that you don’t have to dress up to do the latter.

First, I wouldn't support executing Kirk in a post-revolutionary scenario because it's just not productive. Let him rot in jail, the sadists can be happy because he'll suffer more anyway.

That having been said, there are scenarios during a revolution where it could be necessary to summarily execute someone like him (though I don't think it's that likely compared to a military leader or something), but that's not remotely the same as the adventurism we have currently encountered. In a revolution, a summary execution is one small element of a broader, calculated campaign to concretely seize power. In our present scenario, it's just more chaotic violence where Kirk is martyred and then replaced without any real gains for the left.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Most will not know who he is. I only know the name as some rw youtube prick.