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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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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

he had a wife!

You do not want to hear my opinions on said wife

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 135 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Hates Socialism

Is publically owned

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[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 139 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I know we’re all living in a post-irony world, but cheeto-man just spent months deploying the gestapo to Urban areas because of “crime” only for his most loyal apparatchik to get merked in exurban Utah.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 52 points 6 days ago

That’s a very funny way of looking at it

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[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 97 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

BREAKING: In his final moments, Charlie Kirk received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

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[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 75 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The moderate wing of fascism.

[–] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 37 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Shitlibs: Imagine if we blew up the Three Gorges Dam and killed a bunch of innocent Chinese civilians to appease our bloodthirst against a country that refuses to bow down to our superiority! insert 10 million different anti-Asian and Sinophobic racist slurs so-true

Also Shitlibs: NOOOO!!! You can't celebrate that a vile, transphobic, racist, misogynistic far-right propagandist got merc'd! We should only be celebrating if it's a bunch of Chinese or Black people or Arabs or brown immigrants who are being slaughtered en masse! Charlie Kirk was just a smol bean American whose only crime was loving Free Speech too much! wojak-nooo

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[–] sempersigh@hexbear.net 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

“We cannot go down this road”

This is the problem with liberals right now their eyes have been closed for so long.

I don’t like the road we’re on either but this is the road we’ve been on for years and at this stage there really is no going back.

Libs are still talking about the fucking midterms and the idea that the midterms is even going to be a thing in any kind of recognizable way has been out of the question for awhile now.

In many ways we’re living in the future that libs might have hinted at if we didn’t vote for Kamala (even though this was going to happen anyway Kamala or not as we know) Predictably though libs either never actually bought into what they warned about(if we lose this time there won’t BE another election) or they’re too afraid to admit that’s actually what happened because then they would have to admit to themselves they’re in the political wilderness

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[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 84 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] axont@hexbear.net 88 points 6 days ago (26 children)

I think he always wanted something like this but never expected to die. His whole thing was going on college campuses with private security and riling up the libs. It would have been appropriate for his brand had some woke college kid try to shoot him but then fail.

Good riddance though. Rest in piss. Enjoy hell, you utter piece of shit. One of the most rotten people to have ever lived. Professional racist, transphobe, and Zionism apologist. What a fucking waste of life and free will. Fuck that guy and I hope the rest of his reactionary ilk learn to shut the fuck up.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 73 points 6 days ago (15 children)

Libs already in overdrive rebranding him as a "free speech" champion. That and the usual slowjerk any time a right wing figure gets comeuppance

Motherfuckers would be out here like sure Goebbels was controversial, but first and foremost he was a husband and a father

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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 87 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

His anti-vaxx shit alone caused the deaths of unknowable numbers of children.

I want to say this should have happened sooner, but what I really believe is that people like him should never be able to spread such dangerous misinformation in the first place - it should never even have to come to this, because society should be so much more sensible.

[–] moss_icon@hexbear.net 88 points 6 days ago (9 children)
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[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 51 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Trump said no gun control laws after charlie kirk death. Said its what he would have wanted. How touching data-laughing

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[–] Des@hexbear.net 71 points 6 days ago (4 children)

now we nervously await what kind of person did the thing. not that it matters but personally i was hoping it was the 65 y/o boomer lib

imagine if boomer libs with nothing to lose just starting going lone wolf like those phone calls to senators at the beginning of the year

like the admin wouldn't be able to really even do any broad sweeping crackdowns against that group. they could operate with impunity.

[–] sempersigh@hexbear.net 62 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

funniest outcome I can think would be if it’s one of those fallen magas whose mad about the Epstein stuff (which Kirk had been downplaying)

The donalds probably pretty happy that this had distracted the media from that stuff it would be so chefs kiss if this just brought it back to the forefront AND it was from a bitter ex fan

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[–] PalestinianDream@hexbear.net 57 points 6 days ago (4 children)

suspect was realeased (again) maybe it was mossad after all

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

His neck really just did that

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[–] sammer510@hexbear.net 56 points 6 days ago (8 children)
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[–] edge@hexbear.net 54 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I open Hexbear for the first time in a while and this is what's going on??

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 46 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Keep coming back maybe youre the key, youre browsing habits are gonna be like the guy in Gravitys Rainbow

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[–] barrel_of_a_gun@hexbear.net 39 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/witness-claims-alleged-charlie-kirk-195025695.html

Witness claims alleged Charlie Kirk shooter yelled "I'd do it again"

if you piece together what we know, that they arrested some old white guy and then said it wasnt him but were going to be charging someone with "obstruction of justice", it appears that the boomer that people thought was the shooter was actually just a secondary protagonist making sure the shooter had a better chance to get away, what a king

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[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 51 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 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.

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[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 38 points 6 days ago

Charlie kirk last words

[–] mx_oceanwater_they_them@hexbear.net 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-last-words/

Charlie Kirks last words:

ATTENDEE: Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?

KIRK: Too many. [Applause]

ATTENDEE: In America, it's five. Now, five is a lot, right, I'm going to give you — I'm going to give you some credit. Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?

(the number is 2500)

KIRK: Counting or not counting gang violence?

(then he gets shot)

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[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 50 points 6 days ago

another KKKracker down, unlimited piss on the world trade center

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 6 days ago (7 children)

kinda repugnant that the guy is getting whitewashed

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[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 38 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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[–] RedDawn@hexbear.net 44 points 6 days ago (3 children)

One of the questions I haven’t seen answered yet is whether they were able to harvest his cum in time?

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[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Guess he shoulda shrunk his neck instead of his face.

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[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 44 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

God can you imagine how shit the internet would be right now if this was Trump? Obama would be crying on TV that his best friend was taken too early. They're already getting misty-eyed at the "father of two"

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)

President trump please restore order and militarily occupy utah

The mormons are clearly behind this

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

think about how happy Matt felt to see one more squib!

matt-jokerfied

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[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 31 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Oh, he died. Neat. He may not have agreed with your views but he will defend your right to guns to shoot him with until he is shot.

It is kind of funny how this will be entirely gone from the news cycle in a month. Nobody will care after that other than possibly the murder trial (if there is one), the only reason that the pharma boss getting shot stayed relevant for so long is because people are horny for Luigi Mangione.

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[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 43 points 6 days ago

dead-motherfucker welcome home charlie

[–] larrikin99@hexbear.net 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Authorities have announced they now believe Kirk was not victim of a political assassination, but instead a meticulously planned Columbo-esque murder by a wealthy, conceited socialite who stood to inherit Kirk's media empire, concocting an alibi that placed him far from the scene using a series of pre-arranged phone calls, meanwhile they donned the outfit of an ice cream vendor to commit the murder themselves. a raincoat clad detective is currently in the process of feigning to end a conversation with the suspect, before drawing them back in with "one more thing..."

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[–] onoira@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 6 days ago (5 children)

rip bozo. rest in piss.

this probably won't happen, but: i hope the hero gets away with it and isn't some fringe Libertarian.

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[–] facow@hexbear.net 42 points 6 days ago

I've been having such a shitty month, nice to have something to cheer me up

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 41 points 6 days ago (5 children)

That's a ridiculously accurate shot from so far away. It seems like the work of a professional. Has anyone seen fucking Van Augur since this happened?

[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 49 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

almost can't believe its an American assassin with precision like that. There wasn't even any civilian casualties! (IOF policy says journalists like Kirk are legitimate military targets after all joker-troll )

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[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 39 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If I were him I would spend my last breath mentioning how gun violence is sometimes necessary to maintain a free society

charlie-kirk

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[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 38 points 6 days ago

Couldn't have happened to a man with a smaller face

[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 31 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Selfishly, I kinda wish Kirk survived, but only because I really wanted to use this meme from when Trump go shot:

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[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

he refused to take a vaccine shot

but he took a 5.56 shot right in the throat

what the fuck man? go to therapy or something bro

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