Less than an hour after announcing that Charlie Kirk had died after being shot at a university campus event, President Donald Trump ordered all American flags throughout the U.S. to be lowered in the conservative activist’s honor.

The order applies to all flags at the White House, public buildings and grounds, military posts, naval stations and naval vessels.

It also applies to all U.S. embassies, legations, consular offices and other facilities abroad.

Trump directed the flags to remain lowered until sunset Sunday, Sept. 14, as “a mark of respect for the memory of Charlie Kirk.”

Kirk, a stalwart ally of Trump’s whose Turning Point USA organization has amassed millions of followers, was speaking at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday when a shooter fired

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