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Kirk for a few moments before his death
Charlie Kirk, conservative influencer and co -founder of the Conservative Youth Turning Point USA (TPUSA), was shot dead on Wednesday, September 10, during a rally at a university in Utah, said Donald Trump, on his social social network. The 31 -year -old had been transported to hospital in serious condition, the American agency Associated Press said earlier.
Found of oratorical jousts with the students, the thirty -something organized an event on the Utah Valley University campus in the west of the country, when targeted by a sniper, according to CNN and Fox News.
Videos show Charlie Kirk collapsing on his chair when he was hit by a bullet in the throat. A video showed blood gicked up on the left side of his throat.
American polemicist Charlie Kirk had been an important cog in the campaign of the Republican billionaire.
“There is no room in our country for this type of violence. She must stop now, ”urged the former Democratic President Joe Biden on social networks. “Political violence has no place in America,” said the former vice-president Kamala Harris, joined in this sense by many other figures from the Democratic Party, of the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, to Senator Bernie Sanders.
The former parliamentarian of Utah Jason Chaffetz, who was there, told Fox News that Charlie Kirk answered questions from the public when he was touched. At the end of the second question, “there was a shot,” said the politician, visibly upset. “At that time, I looked at Charlie, I can’t say that I saw blood, that I saw him get shot on it, but as soon as the shot took place, it fell back,” he added. Lots of people started screaming, and everyone started running. »»
Originally from the suburbs of Chicago, Charlie Kirk had abandoned his studies to devote herself to activism. He was at the head of the USA Turning Point Youth Movement. Co-founded in 2012 by the influencer, then aged 18, this association became in a decade the largest group of young conservatives in the United States. These activists had been sent to Washington to the demonstration of January 6, 2021 which led to the invasion of the Capitol.