HOUSTON - Charlie Kirk , the conservative firebrand and founder of Turning Point USA, has died after he was shot while speaking at a Utah Valley University event in Orem, Utah.

Graphic video posted to social media shows Kirk on stage, sitting in a chair, talking into a microphone. A single gunshot was heard and Kirk's head thrust back as he fell. People started screaming and running away, the video shows.

Kirk, 31, was on campus for the first stop of his American Comeback Tour .

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"This is a tragedy that is going to reverberate in American politics for some time," said State Senator Paul Bettencourt.

"I'm so saddened to hear that news. It makes me think what is our world coming to," said District G City Councilmember Mary Nan Huffman. "We can have differenc

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