Charlie Kirk arrived in Utah on Wednesday primed to banter with students at Utah Valley University as part of the “Prove Me Wrong” crusade he had taken to dozens of colleges around the country.

The 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, widely seen as the largest and most influential conservative youth organization in the United States, would leave Utah in a way no one could have anticipated only a day before — aboard Air Force Two with Vice President JD Vance escorting his body in a casket back to his home in Phoenix.

In what President Donald Trump described as a “dark moment for America,” a lone gunman fatally shot Kirk as he took questions under a pop-up tent in an amphitheater in the center of the UVU campus in Orem surrounded by a largely Gen Z crowd — though moms, dads and kids

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