Longtime Sarasota County resident and celebrity author Stephen King has repeatedly apologized for a false accusation he made about conservative activist Charlie Kirk , who was fatally shot on a Utah college campus on Sept. 10 and also owned a waterfront hoem in Sarasota.

" The Long Walk " author claimed in a now-deleted X post that the 31-year-old political commentator previously advocated for the act of throwing stones to kill gay people. He later retracted the statement and expressed regret for taking a comment Kirk made on his podcast last year out of context.

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