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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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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 158 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Hates Socialism

Is publically owned

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[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 149 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I know we’re all living in a post-irony world, but cheeto-man just spent months deploying the gestapo to Urban areas because of “crime” only for his most loyal apparatchik to get merked in exurban Utah.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 53 points 1 month ago

That’s a very funny way of looking at it

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[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 116 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

BREAKING: In his final moments, Charlie Kirk received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 110 points 1 month ago (4 children)

9/11 comes early for those who celebrate

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 74 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"you can open one gift the night before"

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[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 108 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] axont@hexbear.net 99 points 1 month ago (26 children)

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.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 81 points 1 month ago (15 children)

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

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[–] moss_icon@hexbear.net 93 points 1 month ago (9 children)
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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 93 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

His anti-vaxx shit alone caused the deaths of unknowable numbers of children.

I want to say this should have happened sooner, but what I really believe is that people like him should never be able to spread such dangerous misinformation in the first place - it should never even have to come to this, because society should be so much more sensible.

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 87 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The moderate wing of fascism.

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[–] Des@hexbear.net 76 points 1 month ago (4 children)

now we nervously await what kind of person did the thing. not that it matters but personally i was hoping it was the 65 y/o boomer lib

imagine if boomer libs with nothing to lose just starting going lone wolf like those phone calls to senators at the beginning of the year

like the admin wouldn't be able to really even do any broad sweeping crackdowns against that group. they could operate with impunity.

[–] sempersigh@hexbear.net 69 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

funniest outcome I can think would be if it’s one of those fallen magas whose mad about the Epstein stuff (which Kirk had been downplaying)

The donalds probably pretty happy that this had distracted the media from that stuff it would be so chefs kiss if this just brought it back to the forefront AND it was from a bitter ex fan

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[–] PalestinianDream@hexbear.net 70 points 1 month ago (4 children)

suspect was realeased (again) maybe it was mossad after all

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[–] sammer510@hexbear.net 69 points 1 month ago (8 children)
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[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 66 points 1 month ago (7 children)

kinda repugnant that the guy is getting whitewashed

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 64 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] jjsandwich8@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago (30 children)

I can't find link to the video but he straight up got shot in the neck/head. If he isn't dead I would be shocked

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[–] Catalyst_A@lemmygrad.ml 63 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 61 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

I get the impression that a lot of people who either don’t know who Kirk was or do and didn’t necessarily like him are pretty shook by this. I think it’s probably just the nature of the way he got unalived and he was a public figure.

But the fact that THIS has people shook and not the many children who die in horrific ways in Gaza every day… well, I guess if I didn’t get perma banned on Reddit yesterday I probably would have today. Death to America.

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[–] edge@hexbear.net 60 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I open Hexbear for the first time in a while and this is what's going on??

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Keep coming back maybe youre the key, youre browsing habits are gonna be like the guy in Gravitys Rainbow

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[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 57 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Another evil motherfucker got Luigi'd? MAMA MIA!

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[–] RedDawn@hexbear.net 57 points 1 month ago (3 children)

One of the questions I haven’t seen answered yet is whether they were able to harvest his cum in time?

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[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 56 points 1 month ago (5 children)

A moment of silence for the Yankees who are losing 8-1 after having a moment of silence for Charlie Kirkliberalism

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[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Guess he shoulda shrunk his neck instead of his face.

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[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 53 points 1 month ago

another KKKracker down, unlimited piss on the world trade center

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 51 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Trump said no gun control laws after charlie kirk death. Said its what he would have wanted. How touching data-laughing

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[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

President trump please restore order and militarily occupy utah

The mormons are clearly behind this

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

think about how happy Matt felt to see one more squib!

matt-jokerfied

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[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

God can you imagine how shit the internet would be right now if this was Trump? Obama would be crying on TV that his best friend was taken too early. They're already getting misty-eyed at the "father of two"

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Another right-wing podcaster has canceled a public event

spoiler

In the wake of the killing of conservative political commentator Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot during a speaking event in Utah Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom has rescheduled a political event to rally support for his redistricting effort. The FAFO50 event was postponed until next week, according to Newsom’s political spokesperson Nathan Click.

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[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

I decided to check what the dweebs on reddit-logo were saying about it, and I noticed that the r/politics sub hasn't posted a single article about this, lol. Just a complete blackout. In their universe it hasn't happened.

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[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 47 points 1 month ago (5 children)

That's a ridiculously accurate shot from so far away. It seems like the work of a professional. Has anyone seen fucking Van Augur since this happened?

[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

almost can't believe its an American assassin with precision like that. There wasn't even any civilian casualties! (IOF policy says journalists like Kirk are legitimate military targets after all joker-troll )

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[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If I were him I would spend my last breath mentioning how gun violence is sometimes necessary to maintain a free society

charlie-kirk

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Saw the video, those dipshit MAGAs in the front row will never forget that lmao

They literally started squealing like pigs, wtf lol

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[–] onoira@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 month ago (5 children)

rip bozo. rest in piss.

this probably won't happen, but: i hope the hero gets away with it and isn't some fringe Libertarian.

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[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago

Couldn't have happened to a man with a smaller face

[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago

dead-motherfucker welcome home charlie

[–] facow@hexbear.net 44 points 1 month ago

I've been having such a shitty month, nice to have something to cheer me up

[–] sawne128@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lived and died spreading hatred. The footage is sooo cathartic.

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