{"id":414138,"date":"2025-09-10T21:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/414138\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T21:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:32:12","slug":"charlie-kirk-trump-ally-shot-dead-at-campus-event-in-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/414138\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Kirk: Trump ally shot dead at campus event in Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘There was no security,’ says eyewitnesspublished at 22:30 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

22:30 BST<\/p>\n

\"Adam<\/p>\n

We’re now hearing from another eyewitness who was at Utah Valley University where Charlie Kirk was speaking before he was shot.<\/p>\n

Adam Bartholomew says he was at the event interviewing counter protestors that were speaking against Charlie Kirk’s presence on campus. <\/p>\n

He says he heard a shot and everybody dropped to the floor. <\/p>\n

“There was confusion and people started scrambling for the exits,” he tells the BBC.<\/p>\n

Bartholomew says there were about 50 or 60 people protesting against Kirk. <\/p>\n

Prior to the shooting he says the mood at the event was “great” and people were chanting “U.S.A”.<\/p>\n

The anti-Kirk protestors were chanting in response with profanities against Kirk, he says<\/p>\n

“Several people are in tears,” he says of the atmosphere after the shooting. <\/p>\n

Bartholomew says he was “surprised” that there was no security at the event. “Nobody stopped me or searched my bag.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘There was no security,’ says eyewitnesspublished at 22:30 British Summer Time 22:30 BST We’re now hearing from another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-414138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115182144628097261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}