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Charlie Kirk Was Assassinated Today UPDATE: Suspect Reported in Custody UPDATE: Nope, FBI Got It Wrong (Again)

Posted on | September 10, 2025 | Comments Off on Charlie Kirk Was Assassinated Today UPDATE: Suspect Reported in Custody UPDATE: Nope, FBI Got It Wrong (Again)

About 2:45 p.m. ET, my phone started buzzing with messages that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk had been shot while speaking on a college campus in Utah. The videos that circulated on X/Twitter looked very, very bad. Everybody started praying for Charlie, but about 4:40 p.m. ET, President Trump broke the news that Charlie had died.

UPDATE 5:20 p.m. ET: Ben Shapiro:

Like all of you, I am utterly stunned and heartbroken and sick to my soul today. It is unimaginable to write these words. I met Charlie Kirk when he was 18 years old, a young man so eager and determined that I immediately turned to a friend and said, “That kid is going to be the head of the RNC one day.” Charlie became even bigger and more important than that. It was a privilege to watch this principled man stand up for his beliefs and create the single most important conservative political organization in America. But more importantly, Charlie was a good man, a man who believed in right and wrong, who stood by his Biblical values. All of us will miss him, and I can’t imagine the pain of his beautiful young family, and we must all pray for them. And we must pick up the baton where Charlie left it, fighting for the things he believed in so passionately. And we must fight for a better America – an America where good people can speak truth and debate passionately without fear of a bullet. I weep for Charlie’s family, and I weep for my country today. Most of all, I weep for Charlie.

At this point, by the way, the gunman is not in custody. The cops put someone in handcuffs immediately after the shooting, but apparently that was not the gunman. Until the shooter is apprehended and/or identified, we cannot know his motive, and I caution (as always in such situations) about making assumptions about the motive.

UPDATE 5:35 p.m. ET: It is an understatement to say that Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) have not exactly covered themselves in glory today.

UPDATE 7:20 p.m. ET: FBI Director Kash Patel and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox both separately have said that a suspect is in custody. Apparently, the shooter had a rifle and was on the rooftop of a building about 200 yards from where Charlie was speaking. We don’t know much more at this point. When more is known, I’ll post it.

UPDATE 11:45 p.m. ET: It’s now being reported that the “suspect in custody” has been questioned and released and is not the shooter. So that apparently means that the gunman escaped the immediate scene of the crime and his whereabouts are now unknown. Several people on X have pointed out that a “kill shot” at 200 yards indicates that this was a very skilled marksman, and his ability to escape after committing such a public atrocity can be interpreted as evidence of a very high level of planning. Don’t want to venture into conspiracy-theory territory here, but this doesn’t seem like the work of just some random kook.

 



 

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