US EditionLeft-wing streamer set to debate Charlie Kirk tells followers to stop joking about fatal shooting
Charlie Kirk, 31, founder of Turning Point USA, died after a gunshot severed an artery at a Utah event, prompting widespread condemnation as political violence, officials said.
- On Wednesday, Charlie Kirk, 31, died shortly after being shot at a Utah Valley University event, with President Donald Trump and Megyn Kelly confirming his death on Truth Social and The Megyn Kelly Show .
- NBC News reported shots came from about 200 feet away, and video showed attendees at the Utah event running after Kirk appeared shot near his neck; Beck said a surgeon told him the artery was severed, making survival unlikely.
- Megyn Kelly and Glenn Beck were visibly rocked on Wednesday, with Kelly breaking down in tears and Beck saying, `God is not neutral in the affairs of man.`
- Tributes poured in as President Donald Trump memorialized Kirk as a leading youth voice, while Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson offered prayers and condolences.
- Across the political spectrum, Megyn Kelly warned authorities must find the gunman or it would feel like `open season` on conservatives, while Democrats and Republicans condemned the shooting as political violence.
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In Charlie Kirk’s Death, an Uncomfortable Reminder of Life’s Fragility, Our Own Mortality
I write this from my daily commuter train. I’m on my way home. My wife is making dinner. My 1-year-old daughter is just learning to say “Daddy,” and hopefully, she’ll make an attempt to do so when I come through the door. Charlie Kirk’s daughter, not so much older than my own, will not have that opportunity tonight. At the moment, I am thinking about that girl and her family. I did not know Charlie. But like most of us in the conservative moveme…
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