Charlie Kirk's organization, Turning Point USA, has chapters at several Minnesota universities and high schools. He was also an early mentor to a state senator.

Christopher Flemming is a senior at St. Olaf Collage and the president of the university's Turning Point USA chapter.

"This is really, really awful, and his kids, I can't imagine and his wife. Oh my gosh it's just awful," said Flemming. "To see someone I could see myself emulating or that I want to be like to see him die in that way is really scary."

Flemming is just one of many Minnesotans shaken.

On September 22, Kirk was supposed to be speaking to students at the University of Minnesota alongside political commentator Michael Knowles.

"Charlie Kirk was one of the first people who gave me a shot hiring me in convervative pol

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