‘A lot of blood’: local reporters describe moment when Charlie Kirk was shot

Emma Pitts and Eva Terry of Deseret News were covering event at which TPUSA executive director was speaking

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Charlie Kirk was being asked a question about mass shootings when he was shot in the neck in Utah.

On Wednesday, the rightwing activist, staunch ally of Donald Trump and executive director of Turning Point USA, the leading conservative youth organization, was speaking at a campus event at Utah Valley University in Orem, near Salt Lake City, when he was shot.