Witnesses are sharing what they saw in the chaotic moments after Charlie Kirk, MAGA influencer and Trump ally, was shot at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.
"We were about 10 minutes into the interview... and we heard a gunshot and we see Charlie... his neck kind of turned and we saw blood immediately," Emma Pitts and Eva Terry, reporters for Desert Red News, told CNN over the phone, who witnessed the shooting.
"Both of our perspectives were that he was shot in the neck. To be perfectly blunt, it felt like so much blood came out of his neck immediately, and then we all fell to the ground. I can't tell you what happened immediately after," she said.
"We had been there for about an hour before, and we were interviewing people on the ground," she said. "They were excited to be around conservatives..."
A question came up at the event about shooters and trans shooters.
"Before Charlie Kirk could pick up the mic again that's when the shot happened," she said.
"Charlie hit the ground, we saw him fall," she said.
They left the area and ran.
"We saw videos from other people who saw the aftermath... it looks like it was an older gentleman wearing a uniform. He was taken away and put in custody," she said, adding that there is "so much shock."
Kirk was inside a tent in a stadium area on campus at the time of the shooting. Video from the event shows that he appeared to be shot in the neck, John Miller told CNN.
"It's possible that anybody could have shown up to the event," Miller said. "I don't know if it was ticketed or not."
It's also unclear if people in the crowd went through security, he added.
Kirk has spoken at universities across the United States, aiming to mobilize young voters and organize them, CNN reports.
Utah Valley University was evacuated.