Charlie Kirk
Victim Co-founder and CEO of Turning Point USA; conservative activist and Trump ally.
Victim. Shot once in the neck at Utah Valley University on 10 Sep 2025 while speaking at a Turning Point USA campus event. Pronounced dead the same day. Age 31.
Kirk was speaking under a tent in the UVU courtyard as part of the American Comeback Tour. The shot came at 12:23:30 MDT during a back-and-forth with student Hunter Kozak about mass shootings. He was carried to an SUV at 12:23:55 and taken to Timpanogos Regional Hospital. President Trump announced the death on Truth Social at 2:40 p.m.
This file treats Kirk as the homicide victim. It does not litigate his politics except where a claim says those politics are a motive.