Charlie Kirk was a husband and the father of two young kids at the time of his death Wednesday at a campus university event in Utah.

Kirk, the founder of the conservative youth activist organization Turning Point USA, was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University, the first stop this fall for his organization's "The American Comeback Tour," which was traveling to multiple college campuses across the country.

President Donald Trump announced Kirk's death on social media, 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 America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us," the president wrote. "Melania and my Sympathies go out to his be

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