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Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, a campus-focused conservative organization that rose to general prominence on the right, died Wednesday after he was shot at Utah Valley University’s Orem campus, President Trump said.

“The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead,” he wrote on Truth Social. “No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us.”

Kirk, 31, leaves behind a wife and two children. He first rose to prominence more than a decade ago after creating Turning Point USA; in recent years, he became a close ally of Trump.

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