Videos show how Kirk’s bodyguard bring him to an SUV vehicle immediately after the shot. Kirk was hit in the neck and hovered in mortal danger. He succumbed to his injuries a short time later.
The FBI has ensured the murder weapon, a sniper rifle, in a forest. A screwdriver was also found nearby. The theory of the investigators: The shooter could have quickly assembled and dismantled the weapon with the screwdriver and thus bring it unnoticed from and to the site.
However, the perpetrator himself was not found in the forest. Investigators had searched the area without finding further information on the shooter.
The Republican governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, describes the fatal shot on Kirk as a “political assassination attempt”. So far, the investigators have not given any information about a possible motive. The “Wall Street Journal” reports, citing investigators, on the shooting of the shooter, which was discovered together with the weapon in the forest, political messages are engraved – including from the anti -fascist spectrum.
According to the video recordings, Kirk criticized trans people in America seconds before the attack and spoke about the unproven claim that was spread by right -wing conservatives that this group had many guns.
A viewer in the crowd asked him: “Do you know how many trans Americans have committed mass murders in the past ten years?” Kirk Knapp said: “Too many.” The same viewer replied that the number was five, and asked Kirk whether he knew how many gunners had existed in America in the past ten years.
Kirk asked back: “Do you count the violence of gangs, or not?” A bang was heard seconds later, the crowd cried out when Kirk was shot and cut back in his chair. Kirk wore a white t-shirt with the imprint “Freedom” (freedom).
