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PoliticsCharlie Kirk shooting: Police recover gunman’s rifle and ‘good video footage’
CNBC.Com ^ | Thu, Sep 11 20258:51 AM EDTUpdated 7 Min Ago

Posted on 09/11/2025 6:43:30 AM PDT by BradtotheBone

Law enforcement officials delivered an update on the manhunt underway for a gunman who killed conservative political activist Charlie Kirk on Wednesday.

Kirk was assassinated during an appearance before several thousand attendees at Utah Valley University in Orem.

The press briefing at the university comes after officials released two people of interest several who had been detained shortly after the shooting.

“There are no current ties to the shooting with either of these individuals,” the Utah Department of Public Safety said in an update late Wednesday.

“There is an ongoing investigation and manhunt for the shooter,” the agency said.

The gunman who killed Kirk targeted him and fired from a campus building 200 yards away from where Kirk was speaking, hitting him once in the neck, according to UVU.

Kirk’s death was announced by President Donald Trump, who praised the influential activist as a “truly Great American Patriot.”

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: charliekirk
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1 posted on 09/11/2025 6:43:30 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
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To: BradtotheBone

It does appear, by releasing what they have found, they wish to find this shooter unable to speak, even breathe.

Which means, unfortunately, we only get their side of the story.


2 posted on 09/11/2025 6:46:20 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: Racketeer

yeah, it’ll be like the Epstein files the New Jersey drones, JFK Covid, January 6 etc. etc. etc.


3 posted on 09/11/2025 6:48:57 AM PDT by MarlonRando
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To: BradtotheBone

If the guy dumped t rhe weapon why didnt he just leave it on the rooftop? Just makes you wonder.


4 posted on 09/11/2025 6:53:03 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Racketeer

So true.


5 posted on 09/11/2025 6:53:32 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

He thought he could get away with the weapon. The firearm can be traced.


6 posted on 09/11/2025 7:00:47 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (Term limits will get rid of corrupt politicians faster than losing in a casino)
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To: BradtotheBone

I don’t think he was hit in the neck. I think he was hit on his right side and the wound we see on the left side of his neck is actually an exit wound. This whole thing is not adding up. The shot was supposedly taken at Charlie’s 12 o’clock, but the video does support that in my opinion.


7 posted on 09/11/2025 7:01:03 AM PDT by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: Racketeer; All

If it IS professional, then it’s important to know who paid him and what the structure of this project has been. More people are involved when money changes hands


8 posted on 09/11/2025 7:02:06 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Racketeer

Drip Drip Drip. He was on their radar.


9 posted on 09/11/2025 7:03:12 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: BradtotheBone

Why would the guy leave his rifle behind? I really don’t believe this. Sorry.


10 posted on 09/11/2025 7:10:13 AM PDT by Hattie
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To: BradtotheBone

Let’s see some wanted posters with the face like now!


11 posted on 09/11/2025 7:12:22 AM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (I know a lot about nothing.)
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To: Bobbyvotes
He thought he could get away with the weapon. The firearm can be traced.

Only to the last time it passed through a FFL.

12 posted on 09/11/2025 7:13:59 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Hattie

I don’t believe it either.


13 posted on 09/11/2025 7:22:34 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Hattie

Why would the guy leave his rifle behind? I really don’t believe this. Sorry.
Just maybe he left behind a different rifle registered to someone else to throw off the investigation....


14 posted on 09/11/2025 7:30:40 AM PDT by DrHFrog
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To: Hattie

Why would the guy leave his rifle behind? I really don’t believe this. Sorry.
Just maybe he left behind a different rifle registered to someone else to throw off the investigation....


15 posted on 09/11/2025 7:31:14 AM PDT by DrHFrog
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To: DrHFrog

This seems eerily like Butler, except this guy completed the mission. Crooks was taken out immediately and the body cremated so as to leave no trace. Either Charlie’s killer is on his way out of the country or he’s already dead.


16 posted on 09/11/2025 7:34:14 AM PDT by pawpawrick (I had a life once but my job ate it)
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To: Racketeer

It’s not 200 yards away. It’s 145. Pull up Google maps and measure for yourself. I couldn’t find one possible “200 yard” measure for any building in any direction.


17 posted on 09/11/2025 7:35:10 AM PDT by Nifty
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To: Hattie
Why would the guy leave his rifle behind? I really don’t believe this. Sorry.

The first mission priority is the assassination. Upon success, the second mission priority is either suicide or escape. Toting a rifle and/bag hinders that escape and also makes one an easier mark as witnesses and cameras TRACK A GUY CARRYING A RIFLE. So, yeah...that's why the guy would leave a rifle behind. It's not rocket science.

18 posted on 09/11/2025 7:37:36 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Mathews

So you think the shot came from a grassy knoll and not from the book deposi-— I mean the rooftop?


19 posted on 09/11/2025 7:38:23 AM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: Nifty

Here is where to look. They have a diagram in this story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHta7hZW6HQ


20 posted on 09/11/2025 7:38:44 AM PDT by Nifty
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