Charlie Kirk , the right-wing political commentator and cofounder of the activist organization Turning Point USA, died at the age of 31 after being shot during a speaking event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday (September 10).

Kirk was hosting the event as part of his “American Comeback Tour” series of speaking to college students when a shot rang out, and he could be seen falling with an apparent wound on his neck. A person on site was initially detained but was determined not to be the shooter and was released, per The New York Times .

Donald Trump issued a statement of remembrance on his social media site while announcing Kirk’s death, writing, “The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of Am

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