Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed Wednesday during an event at Utah Valley University.

Reactions to the shooting poured in from leaders across the country, even before President Donald Trump confirmed the Turning Point USA co-founder’s death.

Trump announced that Kirk had died before any major media outlet confirmed the news.

“The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie,” he wrote on social media. “He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!”

“They just shot Charlie Kirk,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on X. “I’m praying

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