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US con­ser­v­a­tive ac­tivist Char­lie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of the con­ser­v­a­tive youth or­ga­ni­za­tion Turn­ing Point USA, has died af­ter be­ing shot Wednes­day at an event at Utah Val­ley Uni­ver­si­ty, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said in a Truth So­cial post.

The shoot­ing comes amid a spike in at­tacks on po­lit­i­cal fig­ures in the Unit­ed States across all parts of the ide­o­log­i­cal spec­trum.

Kirk’s ap­pear­ance at Utah Val­ley Uni­ver­si­ty marked the kick­off of his lat­est na­tion­al col­lege tour.