Charlie Kirk’s Haunting Final Post Minutes Before His Tragic Death
Conservative leader Charlie Kirk, co-founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated Wednesday during a campus event in Utah—just hours after making a final post online warning Americans about the devastating cost of failed soft-on-crime policies.
In his last post, Kirk wrote:
“If we want things to change, it’s 100% necessary to politicize the senseless murder of Iryna Zarutska because it was politics that allowed a savage monster with 14 priors to be free on the streets to kill her.”
Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee, was brutally killed on a train in Charlotte, an example Kirk highlighted as proof that America’s justice system is broken when it puts criminals ahead of law-abiding citizens.
Hours later, as Kirk addressed students under a white tent at Utah Valley University, a gunman opened fire. Video from the scene shows Kirk being struck as the crowd scattered in terror, shouting, “Run, run, run!”
The shooting occurred around 12:20 p.m., according to Ellen Treanor, Associate Vice President of Strategic Communication Management at Utah Valley University.
“We had a speaker, Charlie Kirk, who was invited by a student group, Turning Point USA, who was speaking on campus today at noon,” Treanor told Fox News. “At about 12:20 shots were fired from a building about 200 yards from the speaker. To the best of our knowledge, the individual was hit and was taken away immediately by his security personnel. The campus is closed for the rest of the day and our campus police has a suspect in custody.”
Just seconds before he was struck, Kirk was answering a pointed audience question about transgender mass shooters in America:
Audience member: “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?”
Kirk: “Too many.”
The audience member answered “five,” before asking Kirk if he knew the number of mass shooters overall. Kirk responded, “Counting or not counting gang violence?” Moments later, the fatal shot rang out.
Trump: “Charlie Kirk Was Legendary”
President Donald J. Trump confirmed Kirk’s death on Truth Social, offering a deeply personal statement:
“The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!”
Earlier, before confirmation of Kirk’s death, the President had urged Americans:
“We must all pray for Charlie Kirk, who has been shot. A great guy from top to bottom. GOD BLESS HIM!”
National Reaction
Messages of grief and outrage poured in across the political spectrum:
- Vice President JD Vance: “Say a prayer for Charlie Kirk, a genuinely good guy and a young father.”
- Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah): “I am tracking the situation at Utah Valley University closely. Please join me in praying for Charlie Kirk and the students gathered there.”
- Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: “Prayers for Charlie Kirk. An incredible Christian, American, and human being. May the healing hand of Jesus Christ be upon him.”
- Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.): “The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible. In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.”
- Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.): “Political violence has no place in our country. We must speak with moral clarity.”
A Legacy Cut Short
At just 31 years old, Charlie Kirk had already reshaped the conservative movement, founding Turning Point USA and rallying millions of young Americans to defend free markets, traditional values, and the America First vision of President Trump.
His assassination marks one of the darkest political attacks in modern American history—a sobering reminder that unchecked hatred and lawlessness now threaten not just ordinary citizens, but the very voices fighting hardest for this nation’s future.