Following the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, U.S. Rep. Mark Alford announced on X Wednesday evening that he is putting a pause on hosting public events.

In February, a crowd overflowed a Belton, Missouri, coffee shop during a town hall-style event hosted by Alford.

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Some of them (town halls) got a little bit heated, but nothing out of control and nothing we werent able to respond to with kindness and just listening," Alford said on Thursday.

Alford said he ran his Congressional campaign on being accessible to his constituents.

"Going forward, we typically have Mondays with Mark and meetings with people in coffee shops, I'm reluctant to even be doing that right now," Alf

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