On Wednesday, Utah Governor Spencer Cox addressed reporters at a press conference with updates on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
“This is a dark day for our state. It’s a tragic day for our nation,” Governor Cox said. “I want to be very clear that this is a political assassination.”
“Charlie believed in the power of free speech and debate to shape ideas and to persuade people,” Cox continued, highlighting the foundation of Free Speech and debate, enshrined in the Constitution. He added, “when someone takes the life of a person because of their ideas or their ideals, then that very Constitutional foundation is threatened.”
On Wednesday, Charlie Kirk was shot in an assassination attempt while speaking at Utah Valley University.
The 31-year-old political commentator, activist, and co-founder of Turning Point USA tragically passed away in the hospital hours after the terrorist attack during a stop on his “Prove Me Wrong” tour at the college campus. He is survived by his wife, Erika, and two children, a three-year-old girl and a one-year-old boy.
Authorities initially arrested a man in the crowd, believing he had shot Kirk, but it was later revealed he was not the gunman. Investigators determined that the real shooter had fired from a building roughly 200 yards away from where Kirk was speaking. FBI Director Kash Patel announced this evening that another suspect had been arrested, though the FBI has not yet identified the individual.
“I want to make it crystal clear right now: to whoever did this, we will find you, we will try you, and we will hold you accountable to the furthest extent of the law,” Cox said in a message to the shooter.
“And I just want to remind people that we still have the death penalty here in the state of Utah,” he added.
He also responded to the depraved leftists who are celebrating Kirk’s murder.
“If anyone in the sound of my voice celebrated even a little bit at the news of this shooting, I would beg you to look in the mirror and to see if you can find a better angel in there somewhere. I don’t care what his politics are. I care that he was an American,” he said, calling for prayer and real leadership in the country.
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