Charlie Kirk, a native of suburban Chicago, influential conservative political force and close ally of President Donald Trump, is dead after he was shot at an event in Utah.

Trump confirmed Kirk’s death on Truth Social hours after he was shot.

“The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead,” he wrote. “No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!”

Kirk was 31.

Videos posted to social media from Utah Valley University, the college where the event was held, show Kirk speaking into a handheld microphone while sitting under a white tent emblazoned with

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