JD Vance, the vice-president, flew with the casket of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk from Utah, where he was fatally shot, to Arizona, where the 31-year-old lived and grew his conservative youth movement, as the search for his killer continued.
Kirk, a close political ally of Donald Trump and a personal friend of Vance, was shot on Wednesday afternoon during an open-air discussion attended by about 3,000 people at Utah Valley University (UVU) in Orem. The shooting, which the president called a “dark moment for America”, comes as the country grapples with mounting political anger and polarization.
