Charlie Kirk was speaking at a debate hosted by his nonprofit political organization when he was fatally shot at a college in Utah.
Immediately before the shooting, Kirk was taking questions for an audience member about mass shootings and gun violence.
“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” an audience members asked. Kirk responded: “ Too many .”
The questioner followed up: “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”
“Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk asked.
Videos posted to social media show Kirk speaking into a handheld microphone at the Sorensen Center courtyard at Utah Valley University in Orem.
Kirk was seen sitting under a white tent emblazoned with the slogans, “