Charlie Kirk Shot Viral Videos Capture Horrifying Moment

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-Nov 18, 2025, 8:10 PM

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(Disclaimer: Video shows extreme gun violence) In a chilling moment that has since gone viral, bystander footage captured the exact instant conservative figure Charlie Kirk was shot dead during a campus speaking engagement in Utah. The founder of Turning Point USA and a close ally of President Donald Trump was gunned down while addressing a crowd of thousands, sparking a national outcry and raising concerns over escalating political violence. The shooting occurred on Wednesday afternoon at Utah Valley University (UVU) in Orem, just outside Salt Lake City. Kirk was approximately 20 minutes into his talk for the American Comeback Tour, hosted by the local chapter of TPUSA, when a single shot rang out—striking him fatally in the neck. ⚠️⚠️Extreme Violence☣️☣️ (18+) Another angle of the shot that KILLED #CharlieKirk its back side footage A single gunshot rings out mid-debate His team INSTANTLY jump to actionhttps://t.co/8h99yUo9mQ — R J (@rahuljaitley) September 10, 2025

Chaos immediately erupted at the scene, with students and attendees seen scrambling for cover in footage that quickly spread across social media platforms. Emergency services rushed Kirk to a nearby hospital, but the 31-year-old was later pronounced dead. Right-wing American activist and commentator Charlie Kirk, a close ally of President Donald Trump, was fatally shot in the neck on Wednesday (local time) during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah,... Videos are circulating on social media, capturing the moment Kirk was shot at an event he was hosting. Cellphone video clips of the killing showed Kirk addressing a large outdoor crowd at the university when a gunshot rang out. The 31-year-old was speaking into a handheld microphone while sitting under a white tent emblazoned with the slogans "The American Comeback" and "Prove Me Wrong".

A single shot rang out, and Kirk was seen reaching up with his right hand as a large volume of blood gushed from the left side of his neck. Stunned spectators were heard gasping and screaming before people started to run away. Eyewitnesses said moments before his assassination, Kirk, co-founder of the conservative youth organisation 'Turning Point USA', was sparring with a questioner over who commits gun violence. Then the shot rang out. Raydon DeChene, who was among the crowd at Kirk's event, told CBS News that she was standing near Kirk's "Prove Me Wrong" outdoor tent, where he invited students to challenge his political and cultural... Political commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at an event on a college campus in Utah on Wednesday.

Kirk was at Utah Valley University on Wednesday as part of Turning Point USA's American Comeback Tour, on college campuses across the U.S. LiveNOW’s Mike Pache is speaking to Michael Maiorano who attended the Charlie Kirk event earlier today. Graphic video circulating on X shows the moments Charlie Kirk was shot during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. He died later after being taken to the hospital. Kirk, 31, was speaking at the university for his "America Comeback Tour," according to the co-founder of Turning Point USA’s X account. The video posted to social media shows Kirk on stage, sitting in a chair, talking into a microphone while sitting under a white tent emblazoned with the slogans "The American Comeback" and "Prove Me...

A single gunshot was heard and Kirk's head thrust back as he fell. People started screaming and running away, the video shows. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Multiple videos from the scene show graphic details about the killing of conservative commentator and political organizer Charlie Kirk at a university in Utah on Wednesday. Authorities are now poring over the video as part of the investigation into Kirk’s killing.

They are still looking for the gunman after briefly detaining and then freeing two people of interest. Kirk drew a large crowd to the event at Utah Valley University. He was gunned down at 12:20 p.m. while talking about mass shootings. “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?” an audience member asks. Once you see the videos, you can't unsee them.

Conservative political speaker Charlie Kirk was shot dead on a college campus Wednesday, Sept. 10. Late last month, Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was fatally stabbed on a train in North Carolina. Graphic videos of both atrocities spread quickly and widely online this week, appearing in people's social media feeds, often with little-to-no warning. Getting confronted with gruesome, horrific imagery has, unfortunately, become an assumed risk when logging onto social media. Mental health and media experts, however, say the proliferation of violent videos online can have a deeply negative impact on our psyches − and that you don't have to view material like this in...

"I don't think we have a responsibility to witness every instance of violence that happens," therapist Erik Anderson previously told USA TODAY. "People kind of need to be responsible for understanding what's going to trigger them and what they're able to tolerate." Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Point USA, was fatally shot during an event at Utah Valley University in what the governor described as a "political assassination." Livestream video of the event showed crowds of... Earlier this week, transit officials in North Carolina released a graphic video showing the fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Zarutska on a light rail train. Minutes after conservative political activist Charlie Kirk was shot yesterday at a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University, jarring videos of the incident began circulating on apps like TikTok, Instagram, and X. In the immediate aftermath, the majority of the videos viewed by WIRED did not contain content warnings.

Many began autoplaying before viewers had the option to consent. And on X, an AI-generated recap of the incident falsely indicated that Kirk had survived the shooting. Researchers tracking the spread of the shooting videos on social media say that major social platforms are falling short in enforcing their own content moderation rules, at a moment when political tensions and violence... And the video of Kirk being fatally shot is somehow falling into a policy loophole, threading the needle between allowable “graphic content” and the category of “glorified violence” that violates platform rules. “It’s unbelievable how some of these videos are still up. And with the way this stuff spreads, it is absolutely impossible to take down or add warnings to all of these horrific videos if you don’t have a robust trust and safety program,” says...

Over the past two years, social platforms like X, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram have scaled back their content moderation efforts—in some cases eliminating the work of human moderators who previously acted as a crucial... Many platforms use AI tools to try to spot and label potentially damaging video content, but the companies don’t always share specifics about how these tools are deployed. The videos of Kirk being shot show him sitting on a stool answering questions from students and other spectators. The moments before, during, and after he was killed were captured on smartphones and shared quickly on social media. Many videos show Kirk suddenly recoiling, having been shot, and blood pouring from the left side of his neck.

Charlie Kirk Shot Viral Videos Capture Horrifying Moment

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