UVU students return to campus a week after Charlie Kirk killing
Classes resumed Utah Valley University on Wednesday, a week after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot dead on the school campus.
The students returned to a barricaded courtyard where only one blow from a roof struck the 31 -year -old right -wing organizer and father of two children.
Prosecutors officially charged the 22 -year -old suspect, Tyler Robinson, aggravated murder and additional crimes, saying that they were planning to ask for the death penalty if he was sentenced.
“The way we treat ourselves in our words can finally lead to things like this,” the 24-year-old student said Matthew Caldwell on Wednesday. He thinks that Kirk’s murder makes this message particularly clear.
When he returned to school, Caldwell and his classmates found themselves with access to care stations that distributed plush animals and candies. They also received information on the consulting services.
While some employers, including universities, disciplined staff members to make fun or undermine the murder of Kirk, many of his supporters, including the President of the United States, have seized the act of violence as an appeal to action against “the radical left” and “each of those who contributed to this atrocity”.
During the announcement of the accusations on Tuesday, the authorities said that Robinson had sent a text to his roommate and a romantic partner, who, according to the investigators, is transgender, to admit that he targeted Kirk because he had “enough of his hatred”.
Kirk was widely considered as a polarizing figure that defended the very conservative positions on the race, sex, LGBTQ +rights, climate change and firearms control. His fateful visit of September 10 in UVU was to be the start of his American return tour, in which he welcomed students by debating on university campuses.
The brands conservative was about 20 minutes after his presentation and answered questions about armed violence when he was shot.
“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters in the past 10 years?” Hunter Kozak, disputed mathematics student. “Too much,” replied Kirk.
“Do you know how many mass shooters have there have been in America in the past 10 years?” He followed.
“Count or not count the violence of the gangs?” Kirk replied.
Not a few seconds later, he was fatally shot dead in the neck by a shooter perched on the roof of a building several hundred meters away.
According to university police, around 3,000 people gathered to hear Kirk speaking, but no one else was injured by the gunshots.
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