Charlie Kirk
Law Enforcement Shares Updates On Fatal Shooting
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Fox 13 News Utah
3:36 PM PT — Utah’s Department of Public Safety commissioner Beau Mason says there’s an active investigation for the shooter, but minutes before he said that at the press conference, FBI director Kash Patel said on social media the shooter was in custody.
Utah governor Spencer Cox says this was a “political assassination” and there’s a person of interest in custody … seemingly backing up what Patel is saying.
Cox made it a point to say the death penalty is still on the table in Utah.
Authorities are sharing details on Charlie Kirk‘s fatal shooting in Utah … and TMZ is streaming live.
The Utah Highway Patrol, Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Utah Department of Public Safety are holding a joint press conference right now … giving updates and answering questions.
Charlie was shot in the neck during an event on campus Wednesday at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah … and video showed his body recoiling and blood gushing out.
TMZ.com
He was rushed to a hospital in critical condition, but President Trump says Charlie is dead.
Jeremy King via Storyful
The campus is closed, classes are canceled and cops are going building by building and escorting folks off campus. Roads to campus are closed.
FOX13 Salt Lake City reports an official from UVU tells them the university has surveillance video of the shooter leaving campus.
FOX 13 Salt Lake City
The shooter has not been arrested. A suspect was in custody after the shooting, but the university says that person was determined not to be the shooter.
