What happened

Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old cofounder of Turning Point USA and one of the most influential young conservatives in the U.S., was shot dead Wednesday during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) called the killing a “political assassination.” State and federal law enforcement are still searching for the shooter, who fired a single bullet through Kirk’s neck from a rooftop about 200 yards away.

Who said what

Kirk, a close ally and key booster of President Donald Trump , “vaulted to the heights of the MAGA world by mobilizing a new generation of young conservatives on college campuses,” The Wall Street Journal said. His death, as he was fielding a question about mass shootings on the first stop of a 15-campus fall tour, has “rattled Am

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