Charlie Kirk was taking part in a heated debate about transgender mass shootings suspects when he was shot onstage at the Utah Valley University.
Video shared on the X app showed the Turning Point USA chief replying to a query about the topic when a loud pop was heard, and his body crumpled forward to screams of the terrified students in the outdoor plaza audience.
‘Do you know how many trans Americans have been mass shooters over the past decade?’- someone in the audience asked Kirk. He picked up his microphone and stated boldly, ‘too many,’ and that got a round of applause from onlookers.
The questioner shared how there had been five, and that was still a lo,t but then asked Kirk how many mass shooters total there had been in the US in the past decade.
‘Counting or not counting gang violence’- the conservative firebrand’s final words were before the bullet pierced his neck, and he fell down to the side. Kirk was then immediately rushed to a nearby hospital in Orem, Utah, where he was pronounced dead.
This debate appeared to have stemmed from the Minneapolis church shooting two weeks back, when a trans woman by the name of Robin Westman opened fire on a group of Catholic schoolchildren during the first mass of the year.