“I am pleased to announce that I will soon be granting Charlie Kirk the presidential medal of La Libertad,” Trump said during a ceremony in the Pentagon in remembrance of the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Police operation
A great police deployment was underway this Thursday in the state of Utah to capture the murderer of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who died after receiving a shot in the neck in an event held at the University of Utah, an attack that shakes the United States.
“It’s a gloomy day for the United States,” Trump reacted hours after the attack, condemned by Republican and Democratic leaders.
Trump, an object of an attempt to murder a little over a year ago, accused the rhetoric of the “radical left” of having contributed to the crime of Kirk, whom he described as “martyr of truth.”
“For years, some on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie with Nazis and the worst mass murderers and criminals of the world,” Trump said in a video posted on his social truth platform.
“This type of rhetoric is directly responsible for terrorism that we are seeing in our country today and must stop immediately,” added the president.
31 years old, father of two children, Kirk was well known in the American political landscape after founding an organization, Turning point, which claims to have more than 850 offices throughout the country.
Kirk was a passionate activist, defender of conservative and Christian values, who regularly attended universities to discuss in the campus, under a tent, with the students.
“The only information we have about the suspect, the possible shooter, comes from the closed television circuit here on the campus,” said the Commissioner of the Utah Public Security Department (DPS), Beau Mason.
The vice president JD Vance, who planned to go to New York for the commemoration of the attacks of September 11, 2001, will present his condolences to the family in Utah.
This shooting remains an active investigation, “said the agency in a statement.” The Department of Public Security of UTAH (DPS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) co -direct this incident together with the UTAH County Prosecutor’s Office, the UTAH County Sheriff Office and Local Police departments. “
The DPS declared that he initially arrested George Zinn as suspicious, but later released him. Zinn was accused of obstruction of justice by the Campus Police.
A second individual was arrested, but was also released after an interrogation by the police, the DPS added.
“There are no current links with the shooting between any of these individuals,” said the DPS.
The FBI now asks the public to share any information, photographs or videos that may have of the incident.
Death Penalty in Utah
In the massive police operation in OREM, the small city where the university is in which the attack occurred, local police forces and the FBI occur.
“I will limit myself to remember that here in the state of Utah we still have the death penalty,” warned the governor of this state in the center of the United States, Republican Spencer Cox.
The FBI announced at a press conference that the high -power rifle used in the attack and good quality images of the aggressor, which for the moment will not spread.
Trump promised that his government “will find each of those who contributed to this atrocity and other cases of political violence, including organizations that finance and support it.”
Kirk helped Trump increase their adhesion among younger voters, one of the key factors in the return of the Republican to the White House.
The activist was shot in the neck while speaking to thousands of students. Kirk was talking precisely about the serial murders, before a student’s questions.
The moment was collected by several videos that began to circulate quickly on social networks.
In the recordings you see Kirk collapse in his chair and shouts of panic among the public are heard.
Beau Mason, from the Utah Public Security Department, said the shot probably came from a person bet on a roof and that the closed circuit cameras recorded a suspect “dressed in dark clothes.”
That person quickly left the place, according to the images.
University students described the attack as “terrifying.”
“This makes me feel that I should be very careful when expressing my political ideas,” Samuel Kimball, a computer engineering student, told AFP.
Half -mast flags
The Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, said it was “a political murder” and promised that he will be responsible and that he will be judged with all the weight of law.
Trump ordered that the flags be raised halfway in federal government buildings until Sunday, a sample of how important this activist was for the president.
Kirk used his huge audience on Instagram and YouTube to express their support for anti -immigration policies, the defense of Christianity and the right to carry weapons.
The announcement of his death to bullet shocked the political class in the United States, both Republicans in power, as well as the Democratic opposition.
The United States vice president JD Vance asked for Kirk’s “eternal rest”, while the senator and leader of the Republican majority, John Thune, said he was “horrified.”
The main figures on the left also condemned the attack.
“There is no place in our country for this type of violence. This must stop now,” Democratic President Joe Biden wrote.
The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, who debated with Kirk in his podcast, described the attack as “disgusting, vile and censurable”, while former Vice President Kamala Harris condemned “political violence.”
Kirk’s murder occurs three months after a man shot at his home in Minnesota to a Democratic legislator of the state chamber and her husband.
