I'm John Bickley with Georgia Howe. This is a breaking news edition of Evening Wire.

Conservative commentator and activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot today at a campus event in Utah.

The shooting took place at around noon mountain time at a campus event at Utah Valley University in Orham.

Kirk was giving a speech for Turning Point USA, the group he

founded in 2012. According to video and sources at the event, Kirk appeared to be hit in the neck

by a single gunshot. A spokeswoman for the university said the suspect fired Kirk from a building

roughly 200 yards away. While reporters on the scene initially reported that a suspect had been

taken into custody, subsequent reports say the shooter has not yet been apprehended. At the time of

recording, the shooter is still at large. FBI director Cash Patel said minutes after the attack

that agents were on the way to the university. Kirk was airlifted to a nearby hospital in critical

condition but was

pronounced dead a few hours later. President Trump confirmed Kirk's death in a statement calling him a

legendary figure. Trump wrote, quote, no one understood or had the heart of the youth in the United

States of America better than Charlie. Kirk 31 was answering audience questions at the Utah

school when a shot rang out.

He was struck in the neck mere seconds after answering a question about mass shootings.

When news of the shooting was first reported, prayers poured in for Charlie from the White House

and members of Congress as well as those who knew Kirk were influenced by his work.

It's hard to overstate the impact Kirk had on young Americans, with TPUSA being named

the fastest growing campus organization in the country since 2017, with over a thousand chapters

chartered coast to coast since the birth of his movement.

Kirk, an outspoken Christian, is widely credited with the market rise in

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