Charlie Kirk Assassinated at Event in Utah, Suspect Still at Large (UPDATED)

Charlie Kirk believed in debating political opponents. He wanted to talk about our differences as a country. He loved dialogue. He supported free speech. He loved America. He used reason and logic.

They killed him for it.

“When people stop talking, really bad stuff starts. When marriages stop talking, divorce happens. When civilizations stop talking, civil war ensues. When you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to want to commit violence against that group. What we as a culture have to get back to is being able to have reasonable disagreement—where violence is not an option.” — Charlie Kirk.

His prediction:

Five months before his murder, he warned about the ‘ticking timebomb’ of leftist violence.

UPDATES:

Images of the Kirk assassin:

Someone knows this motherfucker. Find his ass.

A video shows his movements and escape route:

The FBI:

The shooter used a Mauser 30.06 rifle, a spent round was found in the chamber, with engraved ideological Antifa phrases on cartridges and shell casings.

The shooter is an avowed tranny/antifa activist.

Jesse Watters

Let’s put America first because that’s all he was about, putting America first. And as Greg said, this hits differently because Charlie was one of us. And Trump gets hit in the ear.
Charlie gets shot dead. They came after Kavanaugh with a rifle to his neighborhood. They went after Musk’s cars.
They just shot two Jews outside the embassy. Think about it. Scalise got shot, barely survived.
It’s happening. We got trans shooters. We got riots in L.A. They are at war with us. Whether we want to accept it or not, they are at war with us. What are we going to do about it? How much political violence are we going to tolerate?
And that’s the question we’re just going to have to ask ourselves. Now, Charlie would want us to put as much pressure on these people as possible.
This is unacceptable and has to stop. And it has to stop now. And everybody’s accountable.
And we’re watching what they’re saying on television. And who’s saying what? The politicians, the media, and all these rats out there.
This can never happen again. It ends now.
This is a turning point. And we know which direction we’re going.

Video footage shows the shooter running across a nearby rooftop.

Matthew Dowd fired from MSNBC after grotesque comments about Charlie.

The NY Yankees actually showed some class.

True to form, lefties are ecstatic.

The Left hates you. Act accordingly.

Kirk had responded to a question about mass shootings committed by trannies during the event.

New York Post

Charlie Kirk was shot and killed by an assassin while on stage during a stop at Utah Valley University kicking off his American Comeback Tour Wednesday, just as he answered a question from an audience member about mass shootings committed by transgender people.

The shooter remains on the loose, sources told The Post, despite conflicting reports that an arrest was made. Video was circulating on social media showing an older man being hauled away by police.

Even before Kirk’s death was confirmed, President Trump somberly spoke of him in the past tense, telling The Post, “He’s not doing well…yes, it looks very bad,” adding that he was feeling “not good” about the shooting.

“He was a very, very good friend of mine and he was a tremendous person,” the president said.

Kirk was rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency surgery, his condition touch-and-go, a nurse told a longtime friend and former Turning Point USA employee Laci Williams who relayed that information to The Post, later confirming reports he had passed away.

The conservative influencer jerked back and appeared to recoil in pain and grab at his neck as the crack of a single gunshot rang out from the crowd, a video from the scene shows, but the extent of his injuries are not clear.

Kirk, 31, was conducting a Q&A session from a pop-up tent on campus when a gunman fired a shot from the university’s Losee Center with a long gun around 200 feet away from where he was speaking, according to sources and a university spokesperson, sending thousands of spectators into a panic.

Former Utah congressman Jason Chaffetz, who was at the event with his family, told Fox News that the shot came during the second question Kirk was answering about transgender shooters.

“He fell back to his left. Everybody hit the deck. Everybody was screaming, then everybody was running,” he said.

Chaffetz added while Kirk had some security guards in front of where he was speaking, there were no security checks going in and the event had a light police presence.

He told the outlet he believed it was “no coincidence” Kirk was shot during the question about transgender mass shootings, adding that he realized “he may be criticized for that.”

Chaffetz said he believed that Kirk was shot at close proximity from the front of the stage.

Laci Williams, a friend of Kirk’s and former south-central regional manager of the field department for Turning Point USA, said a nurse at the hospital where Kirk is being treated told her they “don’t know if there’s a chance” he will survive the attack, but that he’s still alive.

“Charlie is one of my dearest friends and one of my biggest heroes. I’m praying for him and his family so much right now, his kids, his wife Erika. I can’t even imagine what they’re going through,” she told The Post.

And of course, the leftwing media went though its usual convulsions of idiocy, claiming that he ‘might have been shot by an overly excited supporter’ to ‘this video could be AI.’