Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed at a Utah college event in an act that has drawn renewed attention to the threat of political violence across the United States.

His death was announced on social media by Trump, who praised the 31-year-old Kirk, the co-founder and CEO of the youth organisation Turning Point USA, as "Great, and even Legendary."

"No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie," Trump posted on his Truth Social account.

Officials investigating the fatal shooting have given conflicting accounts as to whether police have arrested the suspected shooter.

FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X that a subject was in custody.

Shortly after that, Beau Mason, the h

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