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Charlie Kirk is shot in the neck mid-debate at Utah Valley University and dies hours later

A single round fired from a rooftop 430 feet away ends a campus event minutes after it began.

Charlie Kirk had just told a student that too many mass shooters were transgender when the shot came. On September 10, 2025, the Turning Point USA founder was struck once in the neck by a sniper firing from the roof of the Losee Student Success Center at Utah Valley University in Orem. Six men carried him to an SUV; he was pronounced dead at Timpanogos Regional Hospital that afternoon. The university closed its campus for five days…

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