THE last person to speak to Charlie Kirk before his shocking assassination has broken their silence.
Pro-Trump influencer Kirk was shot dead at an outdoor student debate event in Utah on Wednesday afternoon.
The stage where Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk was speaking from[/caption]
The last student to speak to him before shots were fired has reflected on the horror moment[/caption]
Charlie Kirk handing out ‘Make America Great Again’ hats moments before the start of his event on Wednesday[/caption]
The outspoken commentator died while debating a Utah Valley University student about statistics around transgender shooters in America.
In a haunting final exchange, the student asked: “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?”
“Too many,” Kirk retorted.
The student responded there had been five before asking: “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”
What we know so far:
- Charlie Kirk was shot dead at Utah Valley University
- The FBI released pictures of a ‘person of interest’ wearing a black long-sleeved shirt and sunglasses
- Chilling CCTV shows sniper jump from roof and escape
- Kirk’s wife Erika is ‘devastated’, Trump says after emotional phone call
- Brave Erika is seen for the first time alongside JD Vance
- Trump posthumously awarded Kirk the Medal of Freedom
- Kirk was warned about safety just months before being killed
- Elon Musk blamed Democrats for the assassination
- Eyewitness reveal horror details of fatal shot moment
Kirk responded with what would be his last words: “Counting or not counting gang violence?”
Seconds later, Kirk was hit by a bullet and dropped to the floor – and would be pronounced dead shortly afterwards.
Hunter Kozak, 29, known online as Hunter Stax, was the student involved in the final exchange.
He was now reflected on those final few moments before Kirk’s shocking assassination.
In a video shared on his Instagram account, the mathematics student acknowledged the irony that he was trying to prove the non-violence of the political left in those moments before the horror killing.
In a poignant reflection, Kozak said: “People have obviously pointed out the irony that I was — that the point I’m trying to make is how peaceful the left was right before he got shot.
“And that only makes sense if we stay peaceful.”
An emotional Kozak blasted those on the left who have celebrated the MAGA influencer’s death on social media.
“First off, you sick f***ing psychos that think this is the answer, it’s not,” he said on the verge of tears.
“I’m on the record with how much I disagree with Charlie Kirk, but he’s still a human being.
“Have we forgotten that? Are we crazy?
“Charlie had two kids and a wife, and not to make this about me, but I have two kids and a wife and if my 1-year-old boy, like his 1-year-old boy, would grow up without memories of his dad…it’s a tragedy.
“I stand by so little of everything that he said, but one of the things that he stood by was conversation.”
Charlie Kirk’s enemies chose murder over free speech but here’s why they will never kill what he’s unleashed
by Harry Cole, Editor-at-Large
“WHEN people stop talking, really bad stuff starts,” said Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old father of two and free speech hero cut down by a coward’s bullet.
“When marriages stop talking, divorce happens; when civilisations stop talking, civil war ensues”, Kirk riffed in one of his signature video exchanges with a politically opposed stranger.
“When you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to want to commit violence against that group,” continued the clean-cut Christian activist who played a critical role tilting millions of college voters towards Donald Trump last year.
“We as a culture have to get back to being able to have a reasonable disagreement where violence is not an option.”
But his prescient plea was not to be.
His enemies chose murder over free speech.
The most articulate conservative voice of his generation was silenced by a bullet to the throat that law enforcement last night suggested was engraved with “expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology.”
The identity and ideology of the assassin remain unknown, and the gunman is still at large.
Authorities have shared images of a suspect as they ramp up efforts to catch him.
Vice President JD Vance personally arranged for Kirk’s casket to be flown to Arizona in the aftermath of his death.
The VP has stood by Kirk’s widow Erika Frantzve‘s side throughout the journey.
Kirk was a vocal cheerleader of President Donald Trump and one of the most prominent young conservative commentators in America.
He was best known for co-founding the right wing non-profit Turning Point USA.
Kirk’s killing has been roundly condemned by figures around the world and across the political spectrum.
Donald Trump has announced that Kirk will posthumously be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Timeline of Charlie Kirk shooting
Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in the neck while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University on September 10.
11:52 am MDT – The shooter, described as a college-age individual, arrives on campus before maneuvering onto a rooftop.
12:00 pm – Charlie Kirk is scheduled to host a debate in the UVU Fountain Courtyard.
12:10 pm – A shot is fired at Kirk from 200 yards away and hits him in the neck. The event is immediately evacuated and a man is taken into custody.
1:02 pm – President Donald Trump posts a call to pray for Kirk on Truth Social.
1:37 pm – UVU closes campus, cancels classes, and tells students to leave campus immediately.
1:50 pm – Officials confirm Kirk is in critical condition to the Associated Press.
2:40 pm – Trump confirms Kirk has died, hailing him “great, legendary” in a post on Truth Social.
4:21 pm FBI Director Kash Patel shares on X that the ‘subject for the horrific shooting’ is in custody.
4:30 pm – Utah Governor Spencer Cox, speaking at a press conference, brands Kirk’s death a ‘political assassination. Cox adds there is a ‘person of interest’ in custody and a man arrested earlier has been released.
7:59 pm – Patel, the FBI director, confirmed a second subject taken into custody in connection with Kirk’s shooting was released after being interrogated by law enforcement.
September 11
7:15 am – Officials hold a press conference where they announce they have “good video” of the suspect and they recovered the “high-action bolt rifle” in the nearby woods.
Authorities have shared images of a suspect as they ramp up efforts to catch him[/caption]
Donald Trump has announced that Kirk will posthumously be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom[/caption]
A person of interest is running on the lawn at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, immediately after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk[/caption]
The crowd reacts after Charlie Kirk was shot[/caption]
