FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Just eight days after addressing a packed crowd in Visalia, the outspoken conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot during a stop on his national college tour in Utah.

Kirk, the CEO of Turning Point USA, was speaking at Utah Valley University as part of his Prove Me Wrong tour, a series of open forums aimed at fostering debate on college campuses.

The shooting occurred on Wednesday afternoon and is being investigated as a politically motivated assassination.

Clovis native Matthew Gee, who worked alongside Kirk for more than two years at Turning Point USA, described the man some say was the future of the GOP.

"I've never seen him look so strong, so rooted, so passionate, so happy," Gee said. "I think this was peak Charlie."

Gee says Kirk's security d

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