Candace Owens is publicly questioning who first knew Charlie Kirk had been shot, after Ben Shapiro said his security team were on the phone with Kirk's security and receiving updates while Kirk was being driven to hospital. In a series of posts on X, she has focused on the timing of those updates and why, in her view, they appeared to come before news of the attack was widely reported.
In her posts, Owens directly addressed Turning Point USA executive Andrew Kolvet, questioning how Ben Shapiro's security team appeared to receive updates while Charlie Kirk was being transported to hospital. Citing the timing of early social media posts, news reports, a text exchange she said she had with Kolvet and Shapiro's own remarks, she set out what she said were inconsistencies in the timeline surrounding the first minutes after the shooting. She repeatedly asked who informed Shapiro first and why his security team appeared to receive updates before news of the shooting spread publicly.
