Charlie Kirk shooting: new video of suspect released by FBI amid urgent appeal for help from the public | Charlie Kirk shooting
US officials have launched an urgent appeal using the public as they continue to search for the prisoner of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, publishing new videos and photos of the Utah attack scene.
More than 24 hours after Kirk was killed while he was expressed in front of thousands of people in a Utah University, the State Governor, appearing alongside FBI Director Kash Patel and other officials, “said:” We need as much aid as possible. “
“We cannot do our work without the help of the public,” said Utah Governor Spencer Cox, adding that the FBI had received more than 7,000 tracks and advice so far.
The newly published video has shown a person wearing a hat, sunglasses and a black shirt with long sleeves crossing a roof, escaping from the edge of the building and falling to the ground. The suspect would have fled in the local district after firing the only blow and has not yet been identified.
The investigators said they had obtained clues, including an impression of palm, an impression of shoes and a high power hunting rifle found in a wooded area along the way, the shooter fled. But they had not yet appointed a suspect or cite a reason in the murder.
Direct calls for public support at the night press conference seemed to report the continuous difficulties of the application of the laws to identify the shooter and determine where the person is. The authorities did not answer the questions and the patel did not speak during the press conference. The FBI offers up to $ 100,000 for information leading to the identification and arrest of the person.
The death of Kirk – a close ally of President Donald Trump – drew renewed attention to the climbing of the threat of political violence in the United States which, in recent years, has crossed the ideological spectrum. The assassination attracted the bipartite condemnation of political leaders.
By using information, Cox said on Thursday: “There is a huge amount of disinformation” online.
“Our opponents want violence,” said Cox. “We have robots from Russia, China, all over the world trying to insert the disinformation and encourage violence. I encourage you to ignore them, to deactivate these flows. ”
Cox is also committed to finding the killer and continuing the death penalty.
Kirk’s Casket arrived in its original state, the Arizona aboard the Air Force Two, accompanied by Vice-President JD Vance. Vance’s wife, USHA, left the plane with Kirk’s widow, Erika.
Vance helped wear the Kirk coffin with a group of uniform soldiers because he was loaded on the plane. The conservative conservative organization of Kirk, Turning Point USA, was based in Phoenix.
“A large part of the success we have experienced in this administration directly retraces Charlie’s ability to organize and convene,” wrote Vance on social networks, referring to the role of Kirk in the election of Donald Trump last year. “He didn’t just help us win in 2024, he helped us with the staff of the whole government.”
Kirk was a provocative and a figure of division which is credited with having helped young people, especially men, in the American movement Great Again (Maga).
In a statement Thursday, Tpusa wrote: “We all lost a leader, a mentor and a friend. Above all, our hearts are with Erika and their two children. Charlie was the ideal husband and the perfect father. Above all, we ask you to pray for the Kirks after the incomprehensible loss they suffered.”
The murder of Kirk has attracted the bipartite condemnation of the rise of political violence in the United States.
Trump, who said he would award the posthumous freedom medal to Kirk, met Kirk’s wife on Thursday.
He said that the authorities made “great progress” to the withdrawal of the suspect and that as regards a reason, he has an “indication … but we will inform you later”.
Only a few hours after Kirk was declared dead after being transported urgently to a neighboring hospital on Wednesday, Trump transmitted a video message from the oval office, promising to find the suspect.
“My administration will find each of those who have contributed to this atrocity and other political violence, including organizations that finance and support it,” said Trump.
One day after his inflammatory speech, blaming “the left radical” for the death of Kirk, Trump seemed to give a more conciliatory tone, agree with a suggestion of a journalist that his supporters should not respond with violence.
The White House quickly displayed the exchange on social networks, perhaps hoping to stamp the anger that has already spread violence, with the blow of a Kirk critic in Boisse, Idaho, during a vigil on Wednesday evening.
Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican who retires after this quarter, told NBC News that he wanted Trump to unite the country after the shooting, “but he is populist and that the populists would linger on anger”.
“I have to remind people that the Democrats also killed Minnesota, right?” Bacon added, in reference to the murder of the former president of the Minnesota Chamber, Melissa Hortman, and her husband, Mark, in June by a shooter with a successful list of 45 people, all Democrats.
With Reuters and the Associated Press
