President Donald Trump on Wednesday (September 10) condemned the “heinous assassination” of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, hailing him as a “man of deep, deep faith”.
Trump also hit out at political divisions in the country that have fuelled violence in the United States.
Radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives. Tonight, I ask all Americans to commit themselves to the American values for which Charlie Kirk lived and died,” he added.
Kirk, an influential ally of President Donald Trump, was fatally shot in the neck on Wednesday at an event at a Utah university.
It was not clear whether the suspect had been arrested. A “person of interest” is in custody, Governor Spencer Cox said at a press conference, and FBI Director Kash Patel said in a social media post that the “subject for the horrific shooting” was in custody. But Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Beau Mason said the suspect remained “at large.”
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