WASHINGTON — Authorities are still searching for a suspect a day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was killed in what Utah's governor called a "political assassination" while speaking at an event on Wednesday.
Two people were detained in the hours after Kirk was shot in the neck at Utah Valley University, but both were released. Few details about the suspected shooter have been released, but officials have said the person appeared to have dressed in an all-black outfit and fired a single shot from a rooftop near where Kirk was speaking.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said there is no reason to believe there's a second shooter.
Kirk, a popular conservative political activist and media personality, was at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah as part of his nonprofit political organizatio