People run for cover after Charlie Kirk shot at university event

Charlie Kirk, the powerful rightwing activist, Trump ally and executive director of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), has died after being shot in the neck on Wednesday while speaking at a university campus event in Utah. In video posts circulating on social media, Kirk, 31, can be seen being struck by a bullet while speaking and sitting beneath a tent in the Utah Valley University courtyard. Video footage also shows students on campus running away from the sound of gunfire. A spokesperson for Utah Valley University told the New York Times that said Kirk was struck by a suspect who had fired from a building about 200 yards away.