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Trump says conservative influencer Charlie Kirk has died after being shot at event

By Reuters 10 September 2025, 11:47 pm
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Charlie Kirk speaks just before he is shot during Turning Point's visit to Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, September 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP)
Charlie Kirk speaks just before he is shot during Turning Point's visit to Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, September 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP)

US President Donald Trump says conservative influencer Charlie Kirk has died after being shot during an event on a university campus in Utah.

“The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie,” Trump says on Truth Social.

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