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Charlie Kirk, an influential conservative commentator and founder of the youth activist group Turning Point USA, has died after being shot at an event he was hosting at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. He was 31.

President Donald Trump, a political ally and friend of Kirk's, announced his death in a post on social media.

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00:00I was 15 feet away they talked about transgender gun violence and then as the
00:23guy said shooting or shooters or something like that you just hear the
00:28gunshot and I'm sorry you like you just see his neck just like open up and there's
00:36just like so much blood that just came out it was horrible and all I felt was
00:42like everybody bringing me down to the ground and I was sorry I just all I hear
00:49is screaming and I see people running and I'm like it's not safe to run it's
00:52not safe to get up it's not and all I'm saying is please God please God please
00:56God because I don't want to die I don't want anybody else to die and I I think
01:00I just saw a guy die you know it was horrifying it was horrible I looked to
01:03see if there was a shooter I didn't see anything all I could see was Charlie was
01:08taken right away there was only maybe I would say 60 60 people on this balcony
01:14that couldn't even see Charlie they were like on a balcony above like his tent
01:18that were all saying you know chanting F Charlie Kirk things like that and had
01:22signs saying some pretty upsetting things about him that was it everybody else was
01:27drowning out the sound and saying how grateful we are that he took the time to
01:31see us and talk to us we had questions we wanted to talk to him and instead
01:38somebody selfish didn't didn't care if I'm gonna be honest I had friends coming in
01:42asking if they needed tickets and I said they didn't even check for my ticket which I
01:46did get a ticket they did not pat us down I feel like I maybe saw three or four
01:52police officers in this whole environment of hundreds of people I would guess which
01:57I thought was a little odd but at the same time I thought well you know it's
02:00Utah which is probably an ignorant thought to think but there was not much
02:04security precautions taken there was none so I was watching the event and I saw
02:11Charlie Kirk started talking and stuff and all of a sudden I saw he ice all of
02:16sudden in a second later I heard a gunshot and everybody started like running in
02:21like a mob through the doors and like it was scary I got trampled in the crowd and
02:26like just like pushed through the doors just like everyone started running

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