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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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[–] asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Yall see that thing spurt? god damn fountain

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[–] newacctidk@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I got a phone alert. WHAT THE FUCK?!?!? Did he forget his Kevlar diaper?

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[–] hotspur@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought this was a /fakenews post. Are things happening, just a little?

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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well if he couldn’t dodge that shot, I can see why West Point rejected him

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[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

Kirk-involved shooting

[–] trinicorn@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For fans of the charlie kirk face slider (nsfw, single frame grab from the shooting video):https://charlie.pagelet.host/

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[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

First time in a while a headline made me shout out loud

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Charlie Kirk will be the Franz Ferdinand of the US civil war

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

Charlie wasn't shot! That was just the vaccine pulling a Xenomorph on his juggler

Don't be fooled alex-aware

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

someone should get hasan to do us a shoutout or post our livethread links in his chat, they got 200k viewers rn catgirl-smug

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[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

Blue jean baby

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (5 children)

A moment of silence for the Yankees who are losing 8-1 after having a moment of silence for Charlie Kirkliberalism

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[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

I was hoping to attend a working group meeting today but now I'm afraid I'll keep grinning and giggling like an idiot.

[–] notmyoldaccount@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It feels like we're hitting some societal breaking point of the powerful never having to face the consequences of their actions

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[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (6 children)

POLL:

The shooter is a phone poisoned adult baby: upbear

We never find out anything concrete about the shooter: Reply luigi-dance

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[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

Looking forward to Charlie Kirk Day blowout sales.

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Incoming legislation called the Charlie Kirk Act that will ban all guns for specifically minority groups, which will pass unanimously

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago

thoughts and prayers

[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago
[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Excellent birthday gift!!!

Hope he had enough time to suffer

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[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago
[–] William_Nilliam@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

Good. The world has a little bit less evil in it

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Yeah but was he vaccined though?

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