(NewsNation) — Stories of witnesses who were in attendance for conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination continue to come out. For some, the experience will be with them forever.

"I talked about this the other day, in an experience like that, you have two decisions, fight or flight," a father named Elliott Thorn told NewsNation on Saturday.

Kirk, co-founder of Turning Point USA, was speaking at Utah Valley University when he was hit by a single rifle round fired from a rooftop roughly 200 yards away. Thorn, who was with his wife and baby, says he was just eight feet from Kirk when the shot rang out. He covered his baby with his body to protect the child.

"For me, the biggest thing that I cared mostly about was my family," he said.

"As any dad or husband or father or anything w

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