{"id":218891,"date":"2025-09-11T19:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218891\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T19:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:02:12","slug":"charlie-kirk-shooting-live-updates-fbi-releases-photos-of-a-person-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218891\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Kirk shooting live updates: FBI releases photos of a person of interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI released photos of a person of interest in the shooting of <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/utah-valley-university-charlie-kirk-shooting-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Kirk<\/a> as investigators are appealing to the public for tips.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is believed to have jumped off a roof and fled into a neighborhood after firing one shot and has not yet been identified, authorities said Thursday. Previously they\u2019ve announced they recovered a high-powered rifle that may have been used in the deadly attack.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances of the shooting drew renewed attention to an <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/political-violence-assassination-minnesota-trump-3c750cff0749633872ab6101bfa23b23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">escalating threat of political violence in the United States<\/a> that, in the last several years, has cut across the ideological spectrum. The assassination <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/charlie-kirk-shooting-political-violence-reaction-87f6755421938d0a0d7c5905be10767f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drew bipartisan condemnation<\/a>, but a national reckoning over ways to prevent political grievances from manifesting as deadly violence seemed elusive.<\/p>\n<p><b>Here\u2019s what we know so far:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"rte2-style-ul\" id=\"rte-a06cf402-8e78-11f0-80e2-3363cee28e16\">\n<li><b>Searching for the shooter: <\/b>Authorities in Utah are working to identify the shooter. <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/charlie-kirk-assassinated-utah-university-shooter-search-b0acf4797f57f3436d8f8d0843dbea43\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A high-powered, bolt-action rifle was recovered<\/a> from the area where the suspected Kirk shooter fled, the FBI said. Kirk\u2019s killer \u201cappears to be of college age\u201d and \u201cblended in\u201d with the college population on the Utah campus where Kirk had drawn a crowd of thousands, an official said.<\/li>\n<li><b>Kirk\u2019s Legacy:<\/b> The 31-year-old activist personified the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/charlie-kirk-shooting-utah-university-republicans-8357c3d102de09e3320fde761258131a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pugnacious, populist conservatism<\/a> that has taken over the Republican Party in the age of Trump. <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/american-founders-christian-nation-conservative-beliefs-4ea388e8d80c54016a6a4460cbef9b82\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">An unabashed Christian conservative<\/a> who often made provocative statements about gender, race and politics, Kirk launched his organization, Turning Point USA, in 2012, targeting younger people and venturing onto liberal-leaning college campuses where many GOP activists were nervous to tread.<\/li>\n<li><b>Trump declares Kirk a \u2018martyr\u2019:<\/b> During remarks at the Pentagon Thursday, Trump said he would posthumously award Kirk with the honor at a later date. In a <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/charlie-kirk-shooting-response-updates#00000199-38a1-d2a7-a5fd-7cafb3cf0000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video message from the Oval Office<\/a> late Wednesday, Trump called Kirk \u201ca martyr for truth and freedom\u201d and condemned the \u201cdemonizing\u201d of political opponents in the U.S., even as he claimed the rhetoric of the \u201cradical left\u201d was \u201cdirectly responsible\u201d for the assassination of Kirk. The assassination <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/charlie-kirk-shooting-political-violence-reaction-87f6755421938d0a0d7c5905be10767f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drew bipartisan condemnation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FBI released photos of a person of interest in the shooting of Charlie Kirk as investigators are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":218892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[19719,69,2055,50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-218891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-charlie-kirk","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-government-and-politics","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115187217132603201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}