Charlie Kirk's casket will be flown from Utah to his home state of Arizona on Thursday aboard Air Force Two accompanied by family and Vice President JD Vance, a source familiar told Scripps News. An Associated Press source also confirmed the news.

Kirk, a conservative political influencer and long-time ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Wednesday while speaking at a Utah Valley University event in Orem, Utah. He was 31 years old.

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Kirk was the founder of Turning Point USA, a right-wing political nonprofit organization that advocates for conservative politics on high school and college campuses across the U.S. making him a major figure and voice within the young conserv

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