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:

Suspect in custody released (https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c206zm81z4gt?post=asset%3A969f3817-1fa8-4e7d-9098-1ef173612f76#post)
President Trump refer's to Kirk in past tense (https://x.com/diana_nerozzi/status/1965872770946158801)
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:

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)
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/)
President Trump confirms Charlie Kirk has died (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115181934991844419)

4:46 ET:

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)
AP calls it (https://apnews.com/live/utah-valley-university-charlie-kirk-shooting-updates#00000199-355b-defb-afb9-375b2f950000)

4:55 ET:

Location of Shooting (https://apnews.com/live/utah-valley-university-charlie-kirk-shooting-updates#00000199-3561-d313-a9fb-3d7df54a0000)
Five Sources report Kirk has died (https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c206zm81z4gt?post=asset%3A655e0719-5188-4759-ab2f-342ec5029e21#post)
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:

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)
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)

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:

Police Press Conference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ_vb_olWQ4)
InfoWar loser seem to think Israel was responsible (https://x.com/realchasegeiser/status/1965895909398720794)

6:25 ET:

FBI Director says a suspect is in custody (https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1965903392934633587)
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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[–] RedDawn@hexbear.net 26 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Anybody have a good compilation of the most heinous and vile shit Charlie ever said? I asked about Palestine earlier but really just the worst clips you have of him, regardless of topic.

[–] VHS@hexbear.net 18 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Pretty decent rundown from wikipedia:

Spread constant disinfo about COVID, vaccines, masks, and alternative medicine
Accused the West Point military academy of unfairly admitting a minority woman instead of him
Falsely claimed Trump won the 2020 election. TPUSA took part in the attempted coup (lol) on Jan. 6th 2021
Railed against MLK, the Civil Rights movement, and the 1964 Civil Rights act, accusing it of usurping the US constitution
Advocated for the integration of church and state, stated that the entire US population must be Christian
Enthusiastically spread baseless smears and hoaxes, including that Black pilots were unqualified and a cause of plane crashes
...and denied that George Floyd was killed by Derek Chauvin, apparently he was talking about this today before getting killed

Not too much about foreign policy, although just a couple days ago he said he was "thrilled finally that we're using military force in our own hemisphere". He was active on Twitter and podcasting so I'm sure there's a lot more garbage that could be dug up. He was of course blaming mass shootings on transgender people at the very moment he was shot.

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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 27 points 14 hours ago

lets-fucking-go packwatch wholesome stalin-feels-good carlin-pog

[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 61 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours 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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[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 34 points 15 hours ago

Kirk-involved shooting

[–] companero@hexbear.net 30 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (8 children)

Just saw Trump's video statement. Feels like a 9/11 -> Patriot Act moment to me. And, uhh, look at the date.

Non-zero chance Trump had Kirk killed to "cash him in" as political capital. He was starting to get a bit old for hanging around college campuses anyway.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 19 points 14 hours ago

gender-reveal Happy 9/11 to all those who celebrate!

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[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 18 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (13 children)

maybe I'm just going crazy, but the video of trump announcing kirk's death looks extremely AI generated. there's a very odd jump at 19 seconds in, and the whole thing has that overly processed sheen to it. his face doesn't look like it's moving in a natural way. are they generating presidential addresses now?

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1965947311718269341

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 points 11 hours ago

I think it was recorded, with multiple takes then shittily edited/filtered with AI slop

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 11 points 12 hours ago

maybe not the whole thing but there are definite AI editing hallmarks, that fucking hand motion you talk about is haunting. wtf is going on in the reflection? the trees in the background? that movement is not human. his sleeve grows. the fucking photos in the background morph slightly. this is so much more disturbing to me than the video of blood

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 11 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

yeah, actually, what the fuck? Something is triggering my lizard brain about this video, let alone that moment at 19 seconds

Did trump die today too? Is this the day when centuries happen?

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[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 19 points 14 hours ago

I for one congratulate Mr. Kirk on his successful neckussy surgery

[–] barrel_of_a_gun@hexbear.net 23 points 14 hours ago

someone on twitter made a diss track making fun of his death already lmao https://xcancel.com/sugefrmjerz/status/1965901959556374783#m

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 33 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

I'm gonna guess they already have or will soon find the person, alive. That person won't quite check all the boxes they want to check for the assailant. The person will mysteriously die in a totally real gunfight with Utah LE. Then feds quickly come in, jerk off the local cops and then take over the investigation. We'll get some AI generated manifesto that checks all the boxes. Their socials will have been mysteriously deleted hours after the shooting.

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[–] notmyoldaccount@hexbear.net 31 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

Deeply curious to see a manifesto from the shooter. How do you end up with Charlie Kirk at the top of your hit list?

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 23 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I think Charlie Kirk was a good target since the security level is rather low. If you go after a president for example you are looking at a VERY dangerous gig by comparision. If the shooter wants to take out a fash and get away Charlie Kirk is not a bad choice at all.

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[–] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 28 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Start off easy with a ginormous fucking head to aim at

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[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

okay its funny how unreliable the police is in the US.

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[–] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 17 points 14 hours ago

I've decided someone is tying up a loose end. he hung out with Donald Trump Jr a lot. Anyone who spent enough time with that guy would have some dirt. They shot him in the throat to send a message about not talking.

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 30 points 15 hours ago

Getting word that Charlie Kirk, in a dying moment of lucidity, rolled off his bed onto a doll sent as a get well soon gift and recited a vodoun chant to embed his soul within it, and that it might’ve been smuggled out of his room and sold on ebay to a Chicagoan mom oh-shit

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