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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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[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago (19 children)

Genuinely concerned for Hasan Piker's mental health and physical safety

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[–] companero@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

Just saw Trump's video statement. Feels like a 9/11 -> Patriot Act moment to me. And, uhh, look at the date.

Non-zero chance Trump had Kirk killed to "cash him in" as political capital. He was starting to get a bit old for hanging around college campuses anyway.

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[–] notmyoldaccount@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Deeply curious to see a manifesto from the shooter. How do you end up with Charlie Kirk at the top of your hit list?

[–] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Start off easy with a ginormous fucking head to aim at

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[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] William_Nilliam@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago

This is so fucking awesome. Rest in piss shithead.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I just woke up to this news and I gotta say... Good job America. For once the news is cool comfy-cool

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[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago

Getting word that Charlie Kirk, in a dying moment of lucidity, rolled off his bed onto a doll sent as a get well soon gift and recited a vodoun chant to embed his soul within it, and that it might’ve been smuggled out of his room and sold on ebay to a Chicagoan mom oh-shit

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (9 children)

is there any chance shooter gets caught? seems like they gone, luigi getting caught was a fluke and even then he left much more evidence like getting caught by a security camera, this one didn't leave any evidence.

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[–] RedDawn@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Anybody have a good clip of Kirk talking about Palestine, for example, that I can point to when I tell people why I don’t give a shit that he got blasted?

[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago

No but I can try to find a clip of him saying that he doesn't believe in empathy so no one should care

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[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What are the odds it's a right wing crank pissed off about him saying he wouldn't talk about Epstein anymore?

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[–] Comrade_Squid@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 weeks ago

My party stance is "we do not support single acts of terrorism" so here's hoping for more.

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 children)

I decided to check what the dweebs on reddit-logo were saying about it, and I noticed that the r/politics sub hasn't posted a single article about this, lol. Just a complete blackout. In their universe none of this has happened.

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Saw the video, those dipshit MAGAs in the front row will never forget that lmao

They literally started squealing like pigs, wtf lol

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[–] Weedian@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] LargeAdultRedBook@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago

More like deadthread amirite

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago

Kinda crazy that out of all the reactionary grifters the one who gets assassinated is the "I LIVE LIKE A CAPITALIST EVERY DAY CENK" guy

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