Hunter had just finished asking Charlie Kirk a question about how many mass shootings have happened in the United States over the past decade when he heard a loud pop.

The 29-year-old philosophy and mathematics student at Utah Valley University didn’t spend a lot of time around guns, so he didn’t immediately recognize the sound. But he instinctively grasped his head and stepped backward from the microphone as the crowd screamed.

When he saw Kirk bleeding, Hunter knew what had just happened.

“My brain immediately went: drop to the floor. Then I thought: that is an assassination. He was the target. It was right on point. Charlie is dead,” said Hunter, who spoke to The Washington Post on the condition that he be identified by only his first name because he fears he and his family could f

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