{"id":37355,"date":"2025-09-10T20:16:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=37355"},"modified":"2025-09-10T20:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:16:55","slug":"charlie-kirk-shot-in-utah-in-critical-condition-live-updates-newsweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=37355","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Kirk Shot in Utah, in Critical Condition: Live Updates &#8211; Newsweek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"red-box-label\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Kirk might be controversial, but he did not deserve what happened to him on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump ally was shot at an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The extent of Kirk\u2019s injuries was not immediately clear, but footage certainly showed that he took a direct hit to his neck as blood came pouring out.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk, who once\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/texas-am-releases-statement-after-kyle-rittenhouse-claims-to-be-enrolled-in-school-video\/\">invited Kyle Rittenhouse to his show after he was acquitted<\/a>\u00a0in November 2021 of homicide, is one of the most prominent pro-Trump activists and conservative media personalities in the United States.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-no-content-width has-xs-padding-bottom\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div id=\"incontent-ad-1\" class=\"pw-incontent\" data-label=\"Advertisement\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In video posts circulating on social media, Kirk can be seen getting struck while speaking while seated underneath a tent.<\/p>\n<p>Wider footage shows that hundreds of people were in front of Charlie Kirk, which means a shooter was quite a distance away when he shot him.<\/p>\n<p>Utah governor, Spencer Cox, posted on X after the incident that he would \u201ccontinue to share updates\u201d and that \u201cthose responsible will be held fully accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry-content-single\">\n<p>Close-up video of the shooting has since emerged. We won\u2019t post it here because of its graphic nature but it can easily be found with a search on X\/Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Charlie Kirk might be controversial, but he did not deserve what happened to him on Wednesday. The Trump ally was shot at an event at Utah Valley University &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37358,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37355\/revisions\/37358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}