President Donald Trump said he would award Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, paying tribute to the political ally whose killing stunned the conservative movement.

“I’m pleased to announce that I will soon be awarding Charlie Kirk posthumously, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The date of the ceremony will be announced, and I can only guarantee you one thing, that we will have a very big crowd,” Trump said Thursday in remarks at the Pentagon to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Kirk, 31, was speaking at an outdoor event at a university in Utah on Wednesday when a single shot was fired from a nearby building, according to local police. Governor Spencer Cox described it as a “political assassination.”

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