Police Hunt for Killer of Conservative Activist Charlie Kirk (1)

A search is underway for the killer of Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump who was fatally shot Wednesday at a Utah university.

Kirk, executive director of the Turning Point USA advocacy group, was speaking at an outdoor event before a crowd at Utah Valley University when a single shot was fired from a nearby building, according to local police. Governor Spencer Cox described it as a “political assassination.”

A person of interest was taken into custody and later released, FBI director Kash Patel said in social media posts, later tweeting that the ...