(NEXSTAR) – Charlie Kirk, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump and the co-founder of conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, was fatally shot Wednesday during a college event in Orem, Utah.

A video that circulated on social media shows Kirk, sitting with a microphone in hand under a tent with the slogan "Prove Me Wrong," speaking to a large audience when a single shot can be heard. Kirk reaches up with his right hand as blood shoots from the left side of his neck. He was rushed into a nearby vehicle, video showed, and taken to the hospital in critical condition.

Later in the afternoon, President Trump announced that Kirk had died, writing in a Truth Social post:

The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the U

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