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_Published 2025-09-10. Charlie Kirk, an influential conservative commentator and founder of the youth activist group Turning Point USA, has died after being shot at an event he was hosting at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. He was 31. President Donald Trump, a political ally and friend of Kirk's, announced his death in a post on social media._


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## Transcript

I was 15ft away. They talked about transgender gun violence and then, as the guy said, shooting or shooters or something like that, you just hear the gunshot and I'm sorry. You like, you just see his neck just, like, open up. And there's just, like, so much blood that just came out. It was horrible. And all I felt was like everybody bringing me down to the ground, and I was sorry. Take your time. Take your time. I just all I hear is screaming. And I see people running. And I'm like, it's not safe to run. It's not safe to get up. It's not. And all I'm saying is, please God, please God, please God.

Because I don't want to die. I don't want anybody else to die. And I, I think I just saw a guy die, you know? It was horrifying. It was horrible. I looked to see if there was a shooter. I didn't see anything. All I could see was Charlie was taken right away. There was only, maybe I would say 60, 60 people on this balcony that couldn't even see Charlie. They were like, on a balcony above, like his tent. Now we're all saying, you know, chanting f Charlie Kirk things like that, and had signs saying some pretty upsetting things about him. That was it. Everybody else was drowning out the sound and saying how grateful we are that he took the time to see us and talk to us.

We had questions. We wanted to talk to him. And yeah. Instead, somebody selfish didn't didn't care if I'm going to be honest, I had friends coming in asking if they needed tickets, and I said they didn't even check for my ticket, which I did get a ticket. They did not pat us down. Um, I feel like I maybe saw 3 or 4 police officers in this whole environment of hundreds of people, I would guess, um, which I thought was a little odd, but at the same time I thought, well, you know, it's Utah, which is probably an ignorant thought to think, but there was not much security precautions taken. There was none.

So I was watching the event and, um, I saw Charlie Kirk start talking and stuff, and all of a sudden I saw he I all of a sudden in a second later, I heard a gunshot, and everybody started, like, running in, like a mob through the doors and like, it was scary. I got trampled in the crowd and, like, just, like, pushed through the doors. Just like everyone started running.

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