"Kirk, a 31-year-old influential ally of President Donald Trump, was fatally shot on Wednesday while speaking at a university in Utah, triggering a manhunt for a lone sniper who the governor said had carried out a political assassination. Authorities said they still had no suspect in custody as of Wednesday night, about eight hours after the midday shooting at Utah Valley University campus in Orem during an event attended by 3,000 people."
"On Wednesday night, the campus of Utah Valley University (UVU) in Orem remained on lockdown, with traffic cones and flashing police cars blocking every entrance. At the nearby Timpanogos regional hospital, where Kirk was taken after the shooting and pronounced dead, roughly a dozen people held a vigil one of several that took place that evening across the region at the hospital's entrance."
"Donald Trump blamed the radical left for the shooting and promised a crackdown, saying its rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today and it must stop right now. In his address from the Oval Office Trump also provided a list of incidents of what he termed radical left political violence while not including violence against Democrats."
Charlie Kirk, a 31-year-old influential ally of President Donald Trump, was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem during an outdoor event of about 3,000 attendees. Authorities launched a manhunt for a lone sniper suspected to have fired a single shot from a distant rooftop; no suspect was in custody about eight hours after the shooting. The UVU campus remained on lockdown with entrances blocked, and a vigil formed at Timpanogos Regional Hospital where Kirk was pronounced dead. Two men were briefly detained and released. President Donald Trump blamed the radical left and called for a crackdown.
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