Conservative activist Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and Donald Trump ally, was killed in Utah on Wednesday. Kirk, who was pro-gun ownership, was speaking about gun violence at the Utah Valley University (UVU) campus on the first stop of his American Comeback tour when he was shot in the neck with a single bullet.
US officials have described it as a “political assassination” and Trump has now posthumously awarded Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom. US officials announced on Friday afternoon that they have a suspect in custody: Tyler Robinson, a 22 year old white man from Utah. Robinson’s social media shows he grew up in a Mormon family and around guns, while bullet casings recovered from the scene suggested he carved extremely online alt-right memes onto the ammunition.
