OREM, UTAH (AZFamily/AP) — Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of the Arizona-based conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, was assassinated on Wednesday during one of his trademark public appearances at a college in Utah. He was 31.

Authorities in Utah said they had a person of interest who was talking to them. FBI Director Kash Patel later posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the “subject” was released.

Investigators said the man taken into custody right after the shooting was later arrested on obstruction of justice charges.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has called Kirk’s shooting “a dark day for our state. It’s a tragic day for our nation.”

Utah authorities said the shooter wore dark clothing and fired from a roof on campus some distance away.

Said Cox, “Charlie Kirk

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