{"id":46373,"date":"2025-09-11T13:34:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=46373"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:21:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:21:59","slug":"kirk-shooter-still-at-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2025\/09\/11\/kirk-shooter-still-at-large\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk shooter still at large"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist\u00a0and close ally of President Donald Trump who played an influential role in rallying young Republican voters, was\u00a0shot and killed at a Utah college event\u00a0in what the governor called a political assassination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities say Kirk was killed with\u00a0a single shot from a rooftop\u00a0on Wednesday. Whoever fired the gun then slipped away amid the chaos of screams and students fleeing the Utah Valley University campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The circumstances of the shooting drew renewed attention to an\u00a0escalating threat of political violence in the United States\u00a0that, in the last several years, has cut across the ideological spectrum. The assassination\u00a0drew bipartisan condemnation, but a national reckoning over ways to prevent political grievances from manifesting as deadly violence seemed elusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist\u00a0and close ally of President Donald Trump who played an influential role in rallying young Republican voters, was\u00a0shot and killed at a Utah college event\u00a0in what the governor called a political assassination. Authorities say Kirk was killed with\u00a0a single shot from a rooftop\u00a0on Wednesday. Whoever fired the gun then slipped away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[7603,8439,7099,6369,10000,5262,9807,9515,12036,3805,6944,7389,11259,6047,9262,184,214,6081,594,5140],"class_list":["post-46373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-activist","tag-assassination","tag-bipartisan","tag-chaos","tag-conservative","tag-cut","tag-gun","tag-killed","tag-kirk","tag-president","tag-republican","tag-shooter","tag-shot","tag-students","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-president-donald-john-trump-jr","tag-university","tag-utah","tag-who","tag-young"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46376,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46373\/revisions\/46376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}