On Wednesday, Charlie Kirk , the co-founder and CEO of conservative youth organization Turning Point USA and close ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed at a Utah college event. Following a day-and-a-half manhunt, police arrested a 22-year-old Utah man who indicated to a family member that he was responsible for shooting the 31-year-old activist, podcaster and Prospect Heights native.

In the wake of Kirk’s death, people across the country — and political spectrum — offered their condolences and advocated for an end to political violence , including local lawmakers, his suburban friends and family, and the president himself, who said he would posthumously award Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom .

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