Pressmediaofindia
Related Articles
14-09-2025
WASHINGTON: Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in front of hundreds of young people, many of whom recording on their phones at the time. Moments later, videos of his assassination could be seen on social media.
TikTok says it is working to avoid those videos circulating across users’ feeds.
“We remain committed to proactively enforcing our community guidelines and have implemented additional safeguards to prevent people from unexpectedly viewing footage that violates our rules,” TikTok’s spokesperson Jamie Favazza says in a statement.
Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna says the video-sharing platform has told her “they will be removing the horrific videos of Charlie Kirk’s final moments”.
Police investigate ‘multiple leads’ in hunt for Kirk shooting suspect
The FBI and officials will hold a news conference at 19:30 local time (01:30 GMT) about the search for Charlie Kirk’s killer.
Police in Utah have released new photos of a “person of interest”.
No suspect is in custody but sources say police have got the name of that “person of interest”, the FBI has offered a $100,000 reward for information.
A high-powered rifle was found in woods near the shooting.
Kirk, an ally of President Trump, was shot at a Utah university, officials said the suspect “appears to be of college age” and fled by jumping from the roof down to a grassy area, then out through a car park.
We now have police audio shortly after the shooting, while our Verify team has looked for clues in the pictures released by the FBI.
Utah official says it was easy for shooter to access roof before firing at Kirk
Utah Public Safety Commissioner Beau Mason has spoken to the media about the suspect’s movement before and after fatally shooting Kirk.
In an interview with media, external Mason says it was easy for the suspected shooter to access the roof of a Utah Valley University building and open fire.
The building, Mason says, had open pathways and lacked locked doors.
Mason says the suspected shooter was tracked on security footage moving across campus to the roof.
The suspected shooter jumped from the roof down to a grassy area, out through a parking lot and fled into the woods after the shooting, he says.
Mason adds that the single shot that killed Kirk was fired from a distance of 175 yards which is considered an “average shot” for a skilled rifleman, but that “it doesn’t necessarily require an expertise”.
Mason previously said that the suspect blended in easily on the campus and appeared “to be of college age”.
Earlier, media reported that officials have said they know the name of the suspected shooter but have not yet released it.
Wednesday was a ‘roller-coaster’, says Trump’s chief of staff
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles says Kirk “was very much” part of the family, and so his death “shook everyone to their core”.
In an interview on The Scott Jennings Radio Show, she called Wednesday a “roller-coaster”, during which they thought good news would follow the bad, but it didn’t so it was “very rough”.
She said that for many of them, it brought back memories of the assassination attempt that Trump endured on 13 July, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania “and then today is 9/11, so it’s sort of a one-two punch,” she added.
TikTok says it is working to avoid those videos circulating across users’ feeds. (Int’l News Desk)
