Updated
Sept. 11, 2025, 10:05 a.m. ET
Jacey Fortin and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
Here’s the latest.
The authorities had new leads on Thursday in their search for the person who shot and killed the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk: a weapon they said was used in the shooting, imprints of a forearm and a shoe, and video tracking the shooter’s movements as he climbed onto a roof to carry out the attack.
Robert Bohls, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.’s Salt Lake City office, said in a news conference that the gun that was recovered was a “high-powered bolt-action rifle,” and that it had been found in a wooded area in a neighborhood near the campus of Utah Valley University, where Mr. Kirk had been speaking to a large crowd on Wednesday afternoon.
Investigators “have good video footage of this individual,” said Beau Mason, Utah’s public safety chief. But he added that officials will release the images only if they cannot identify him. Officials referred to the shooter as a man throughout the news conference.
President Trump, an ally of Mr. Kirk’s, blamed the rhetoric of the “radical left” for Mr. Kirk’s killing, but investigators in Utah did not assign any possible motive. They did share new details about his movements on Wednesday: The person arrived on campus shortly before noon and used a stairway to make his way to the roof of a campus building overlooking the site of Mr. Kirk’s scheduled appearance, according to Mr. Mason. After the shooting — a single shot that hit Mr. Kirk in the neck — the person jumped from the roof and fled to a nearby neighborhood, Mr. Mason said.
Mr. Mason said that the person being sought “blended in well” at the campus because he appeared “to be of college age.”
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