Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot during an event at Utah Valley University.<\/p>\n
Kirk was on stage for his “American Comeback Tour” when shots were fired from a nearby building.<\/p>\n
Eyewitnesses reported seeing Kirk bleeding from his neck and security rushed him away from the scene.<\/p>\n
A suspect was taken into custody shortly after the incident.<\/p>\n
Kirk was the only person reported shot in the incident, and his current condition is not yet known.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: Charlie Kirk<\/a> is being treated and is in critical condition. law enforcement official briefed on the shooting told The Associated Press. We will update again as needed.<\/p>\n UPDATE 2: Charlie Kirk pronounced dead.<\/p>\n UPDATE 3: the elderly man arrested was a fake suspect causing noise to let the real suspect get away.<\/p>\n UPDATE 4: the suspect was caught\/turned in and identified as Tyler Robinson.<\/p>\n UPDATE 5: Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Tyler Robinson.<\/p>\n Video of alleged shooter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot during an event at Utah Valley University. Kirk was on stage for his “American Comeback Tour” when shots were fired from a nearby building. Eyewitnesses reported seeing Kirk bleeding from his neck and security rushed him away from the scene. A suspect was taken into custody shortly after the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}