conservative political activist Charlie Kirk is dead after he was shot during a crowded campus event at Utah Valley University.

The killing of one of the most prominent conservative media figures have spurred fears of future vitriol and violence.

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From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Michael Onger.

On Wednesday, conservative commentator and activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while addressing students at Utah Valley University.

Witnesses say immediately before the shooting, Kirk was taking questions from an audience member about mass shootings and gun violence.

You're going to give you some credit. Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?

Counting or not counting gang violence? Great.

Investigators say the gunman fired a shot from a nearby rooftop and hit Kirk in the neck.

In the immediate aftermath of a shooting, as we've observed so many times on this show, journalists and their sources

in law enforcement tend to get things wrong. And boy, did they.

It was initially believed that the shooter was in custody officials now saying the suspect

is not in custody. Yet another twist to this confusing afternoon. It appeared that the FBI

and authorities were saying that a second

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