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Livethread: Charlie Kirk Shot (and killed) at Utah Event (apnews.com)
submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours 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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[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 6 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 5 points 9 hours ago

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.