Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk has died at age 31 after being shot at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, September 10.

“It’s with a heavy heart that we, the Turning Point USA leadership team, write to notify you that early this afternoon, Charlie went to his eternal reward with Jesus Christ in Heaven,” read a statement from Turning Point, released on Wednesday evening.

Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was an influential voice in the conservative movement and close ally of President Donald Trump. He was speaking at the Orem, Utah, university as part of his American Comeback Tour and was answering a question about mass shootings at the time of the incident.

“The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead,” Trump wrote via Truth Social. “No one understood

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