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Livethread: Charlie Kirk Shot (and killed) at Utah Event (apnews.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by deforestgump@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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Update: potential shooter in custody (https://x.com/justin_hicken/status/1965848958464569704)

Update 2: There is footage which shows Charlie Kirk taking what seems to be a fatal gunshot to the neck. I will not post it here.

Update 3: Hasan Piker watched the clip on stream and confirmed that Kirk took the fatal shot. Piker was visibly shaken as he was supposed to debate Kirk at Dartmouth University in 15 days.

Update 4: Kirk has been hospitalized (https://www.foxnews.com/us/charlie-kirk-shot-utah-event-hospitalized)

Update 3:17 ET: BBC is reporting that the gunman is NOT in custody (https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c206zm81z4gt?post=asset%3Ac035788b-e6fb-4fbc-9265-7d60e5e027af#post)

3:27 ET: BBC now reports from university security that gunman is in custody:

3:47 ET: CBS Reporter @JenniferJJacobs: "A Turning Point USA official says Charlie Kirk is at the hospital but "it doesn’t look good.” Confirmed Kirk was shot in the neck. @CBSNews" (https://x.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1965863480499868145)

3:48 ET: AP Reports that Charlie Kirk is in critical condition. (https://apnews.com/live/utah-valley-university-charlie-kirk-shooting-updates#00000199-3528-de36-a9f9-777f0f350000)

3:55 ET: Kirk was in a debate at the "Prove Me Wrong Table" (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/10/us/charlie-kirk-shot-utah/37c9c0ac-f695-504a-8ff6-d9ab2a3078e1):

3:59 ET: Shot came from 200 yards away (https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c206zm81z4gt?post=asset%3Af64761ff-6c89-48a8-81b7-a975947a1f30#post)

4:04 ET: NYT: Old man in custody is NOT actually the shooter. The police have determined that a person who was taken into custody after the shooting was not actually the shooter, according to Scott Trotter, a university spokesman. The university had earlier said a suspect was in custody, and videos online showed an older man being detained by police officers. (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/10/us/charlie-kirk-shot-utah/4ad76cd0-57e9-5b4a-b7b8-acb2e2a58026)

4:15 ET: Desert News Reporter: Utah Speaker Mike Schultz confirms Charlie Kirk is dead. (https://x.com/BrighamTomco/status/1965871381419352506)

4:17 ET: Suspect not in custody, University says (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/live-updates-shooting-charlie-kirk-event-utah-rcna230437/rcrd88079?canonicalCard=true)

4:26 ET: Real America's Voice is reporting that Charlie Kirk has died (https://x.com/willsommer/status/1965873708163346786)

4:29 ET:

4:42 ET:

4:46 ET:

4:55 ET:

5:00 ET: BBC What we know, what we don't:

5:50 ET:

6:04 ET:

  • AP what the videos show:

  • BBC recants earlier reporting about where the shot took place:

6:10 ET: Video surfaces on twitter of what appears to be a shooter on the roof of a building (https://x.com/doug_zimmer1/status/1965866141970215038)

6:15 ET:

6:25 ET:

6:32 ET:

Press Conference:

  • Utah Gov Cox says a "person of interest" is in custody but speaks to 'whoever did this' (Press Conf).
  • That person isn't suspect 'Zynn'.
  • Person in custody being charged with Obstruction of Justice
  • Kirk killed with single shot:
  • That was a weird fucking press conference. [6:42 ET]

NBC News Summary of Press Conference:

I think that's all I got for now folks! Thanks for following. [6:50 ET]

9:17 ET: AP reports no one is currently in custody:

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[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I get the impression that a lot of people who either don’t know who Kirk was or do and didn’t necessarily like him are pretty shook by this. I think it’s probably just the nature of the way he got unalived and he was a public figure.

But the fact that THIS has people shook and not the many children who die in horrific ways in Gaza every day… well, I guess if I didn’t get perma banned on Reddit yesterday I probably would have today. Death to America.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But the fact that THIS has people shook and not the many children who die in horrific ways in Gaza every day…

or even the children who die in horiffic ways in american schools because of fuckers like THIS GUY

[–] Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There was ALSO a school shooting today....

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Of course there was, there was a day today. this is america, we have at LEAST one shooting a day, every day, for like a decade now

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

I did the math, there's on average 1.5 mass shootings per day every day

[–] miz@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Kirk got shot at a school, so I guess there were two!

amerikkka-clap

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah not to mention a bunch of important Epstein stuff just got released, yeah? Shouldn't that be more important to people than some grifter dying?

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

By their fucked up ontology and hierarchy, one of God's beautiful children was killed today. The actual kids weren't so its only natural for their very stupid world view.

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Something something Mark Twain something brief terror vs terror of a thousand years something.