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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. As a manhunt continues for the shooter who killed right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

Many who attended the Utah events say they're in shock.

NPR's Kirk Ziegler reports from the campus of Utah Valley University.

Elliot Thorne says he and his family were about 10 feet away from where Charlie Kirk was speaking when the bullet hit him.

It took us about three, four seconds for us to register what happened.

And then at that moment, I had to, excuse me, I had to dive on my 16-month-old.

And my wife, I didn't know if it was a mass shooter.

Thorne came back to campus hoping to get their stroller they left behind, but it's now an active crime scene. A self-described staunch conservative, he says he's devastated.

You know, I just hope and pray during this experience across the country that we can start to really genuinely find a way to come together as a people.

Vigils are occurring across the country, including one planned here Friday night.

Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Orem, Utah.

In lower Manhattan at Ground Zero,

dignitaries and families of the fallen mark 24 years since the 9-11 attacks killed nearly

3,000 people. To this day, the deadliest attack of terror on U.S. soil in the nation's history.

NPR's Quill Lawrence reports from New York.

A somber ceremony is held each year at the site where the Twin Towers collapsed after being

struck by hijacked airliners that morning in 2001. Loved ones read out the names of the people who died.

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