WEST JORDAN, Utah — Ava Beck was in her Spanish class Wednesday at Utah Valley University when two other students walked in and told everyone to get out.

“And I walked out,” Beck recalled, “and there (were) so many students just standing there in the parking lot and in front of the building because nobody knew what was going on.”

Conservative commentator and activist Charlie Kirk had been shot in the campus’ amphitheater. He died a short time later.

Beck, a junior at UVU, became one of thousands stuck in a bottleneck that followed the Kirk shooting – people there to see the speaker or just everyday UVU students, faculty or staff. She’s started a petition asking UVU make changes before the next emergency.

Beck’s petition asks UVU to create better procedures for lockdowns, including ma

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