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

A video posted online of the event shows Kirk speaking to a crowd of people as a shot rings out. Kirk is thrown backwards by the shot, which appeared to hit his neck, before the crowd disperses in panic.

A statement from the university said a “single shot was fired on campus toward a visiting speaker. Police are investigating now, suspect in custody.”

Kirk was at the university in Orem, Utah, for an event dubbed the “American Comeback Tour.”

“WE. ARE. SO. BACK,” Kirk wrote on X shortly before the shots were reported. “Utah Valley University is FIRED UP and READY for the first stop back on the Ameri

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