(Bloomberg) – A person who was in custody that was in custody over the killing of Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and a close ally of President Donald Trump, said FBI director Kash Patel.
Kirk, Executive Director of the Advocacy Group Turning Point US, spoke at the outdoor event in front of the crowd at Utah Valley University, when the local police were fired a single shot from a nearby building.
“The subject in custody has been released after the interrogation of the right,” Patel said in post X. “Our investigation continues and we will continue to publish information in the interest of transparency.”
Shooting, the latest in a number of political violence in the US, has brought the shock and convictions of the Republicans and Democrats. Kirk, 31, began to turn the US point more than ten years ago and turned it into one of the most influential groups that helped to collect young voters for conservative causes. He leaves his wife and two small children behind.
Trump called Kirk “great and even legendary” and ordered the US flags to be reduced to half to Sunday evening.
“No one understood or had the heart of youth in the United States of America better than Charlie,” Trump said on his truth social platform of social media
Utah Governor Spencer Cox described killing as a political assassination. Kirk was on UVU for the American tour of his group and was to be planned to set up a table called Me Ching, where the audience is trying to show off scientists.
About 20 minutes after Kirk started talking, he was fired about 200 yards far away, UVU spokeswoman Ellen Treanor said in -mail statement. A video shared on social media shows that Kirk fell back on a chair after he rang a loud pop.
The Republican National Committee described Kirk as “a devoted patriot who spent his life preventing conservative value and inspired young Americans”. Former democratic presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama condemned violence and offered their family sympathy.
“Political violence has become too common in American society and that’s not who we are,” said Republican House spokesman Mike Johnson. “We need anyone who has a platform to say it loudly and clearly: we can settle disagreements and disputes in a civilian way.”
Kirk originally started his conservative defense in high school. After completing his studies he attended briefly near Harper College before he fell out to turn the point of the US to get money from important conservatives. His 2012 essay for Breitbart News on liberal bias in the economic textbooks brought him an invitation to talk about Fox business and talking to a local university.
Over the next decade, Kirk has grown into a powerful lawyer in the US point, making it one of the most visible young conservatives in the country. The non -profit organization supports “identification, organization and authorization of young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government” between high school and university students, according to Kirka’s profile LinkedIn.
Kirk would often publicly discuss university students and personalities throughout the political spectrum. At the beginning of this year, he was the first guest of the Podcast of California Governor Gavin Newsom and was to plan to discuss the progressive influential Hasan Piker for a sold out event at Dartmouth at the end of this month.
-S assists by Jenh Haque, Alicia Clanton, Janet Lorin, Demetrios Pogkas and Adrienne Tong.
(Update with the subject in custody)
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