Washington: Conservative political activist Charlie Kirk , a prominent MAGA campaigner and fundraiser for President Donald Trump, has been assassinated while speaking at a university in Utah.

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that a person of interest had been apprehended following a manhunt that spanned several hours and saw officers searching the Utah Valley University campus and surrounding neighbourhoods for the gunman.

Posting to X, Patel said: “The subject for the horrific shooting today that took the life of Charlie Kirk is now in custody.”

Earlier, Trump confirmed the death on social media. “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 a

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