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Anna Betts

Texas State expels student for allegedly mocking Charlie Kirk shooting

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Students walk on campus at Texas State University in San Marcos on 30 June 2025. Photograph: The Austin American-Statesman/Hearst Newspapers/Houston Chronicle/Getty Images

Texas State University has ended the enrollment of a student who appeared to mock the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during a campus memorial event earlier this week.

A video posted to social media on Tuesday morning shows the student in the crowd slapping his neck multiple times, calling himself “Charlie Kirk”, and imitating Kirk when he was fatally shot in the neck on 10 September at Utah Valley University.

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