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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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[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 39 points 1 day ago

hahahahahahahahaha

AHAHAHAHAHAH

[–] LargeAdultRedBook@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

More like deadthread amirite

[–] flango@lemmy.eco.br 12 points 1 day ago

Wow, incredible coverage! Congrats

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago
[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (15 children)

For the streamer hogs on Hexbear, here’s the latest streamer slop from BE. what-time-is-it

[–] sempersigh@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

The idea that Hitler wouldn’t have mounted sufficient electoral support in the 1933 elections if it wasn’t for the reichstag fire is the real ahistorical nonsense there was no turning back at that point and if consent wasn’t sufficiently manufactured to carry out the holocaust without it they would have engineered it anyway since they were about to control the levers of power anyway

BE is smarter than this but his need to drama farm is more important than having a good take

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[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 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

[–] 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

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[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Happy september 11th to the us&a

Charlie Kirk once said some gun deaths 'worth it' in order to have Second Amendment

The Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder made the remarks while answering a question during a TPUSA Faith event in April 2023.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-gun-deaths-quote/

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[–] abc@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago
[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

This is so fucking awesome. Rest in piss shithead.

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

how much blood would a shot chuck chuck if a shot chuck could chuck blood?

[–] JohnBrownsBawdy@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

I’m fixing a dryer and just want to hear people gloating and dunking on him. What stream should I pull up?

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

You're doing gods work @deforestgump@hexbear.net.

So they have a person in custody, its just not that old man?

Also 200 yards, someone had been clocking in hours at the range.

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[–] T34_69@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Holy shit, is that real? That's... A lot of blood, damn

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