- Managers publish a video of the man fleeing the sniper perch.
- No reason established for the murder of an influential curator.
- The Governor of Utah requests public help to identify the shooter.
OREM: The elite shooter who killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk was still free on Friday when the investigators flooded the internet of photos and video of a man who would have made politically loaded murders on Wednesday in a university in UTAH.
President Donald Trump said the investigators were growing in the withdrawal of the shooter who fired a single gunshot on Wednesday who hit Kirk’s neck, a 31 -year -old podcast author and host who helped galvanize the conservative vote of young people and to return Trump to the White House.
The officials still called the man captured in video a person of interest, not a suspect, but placed him on the scene of the crime at the University of Utah Valley in Orem, Utah.
Kirk was on the campus for one of his student events, featuring his brand format of taking questions and opponents in challenge to debate the most polarizing questions of the day, including armed violence and race. About 3,000 people were present.
The shooting has punctuated the most sustained period of American political violence since the 1970s.
Reuters Docused more than 300 cases of acts of political motivation through the ideological spectrum since Trump supporters attacked the American Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Trump himself survived two attempts at his life last year, one who left him a blurred ear during a campaign event and two months later, thwarted by federal agents.
The video played during a press briefing Thursday showed a man who was crossing the roof of the building where the shots came, before going down and falling to the ground and leaving the campus.
On the other side of the road, he entered a small wooded area where the officials recovered what they described as a rifle with a powerful high lock which, according to them, was used in the shooting.
Lock rifles, unlike semi-automatic autonomous charging rifles often used in mass fire, are popular with American game hunters, target shooters and elite shooters in soldiers around the world.
They require the manual loading of each cartridge in the room with a bolt tour, but are perceived as more precise to longer ranges when only one mortal shot is all that is necessary.
The commissioner of the Ministry of Public Security of Utah, Beau Mason, said that the man had left impressions and palm stains where the investigators sought to collect DNA.
“There is a shoe imprint where we think that the suspect is clearly identified as wearing converse tennis shoes,” added Mason.
UTAH governor Spencer Cox, appearing in a press briefing with FBI director Kash Patel and other officials, asked for the public to identify the thin young man, whose appearance was partially concealed by a dark baseball cap and sunglasses.
“We cannot do our work without the help of the public right now,” said Cox. “Until now, we have received more than 7,000 tracks and advice. I would simply note that the FBI has not received as many digital media advice from the public since the bombing of the 2013 Boston marathon”.
The FBI offered a reward of $ 100,000 for information leading to the arrest of the Kirk killer.
Legislators, commentators and online detectives have already completed social media and electronic babibllards with speculation on the identity of the killer and blame him on his ideology.
Kirk, 31, husband and father of two, was dear to a lot in Trump’s Magi Magan movement. Vice-President JD Vance awarded him for helping Trump win the 2024 presidential election and selecting people appointed to the Trump administration.
Vance canceled a trip to New York and went to Utah to see Kirk’s family and to fly them and the Kirk coffin at home in Arizona on the Air Force two.
Trump said he would award Kirk the presidential freedom of freedom, the highest civil distinction in the country.
“Charlie Kirk was a great person, a tall man – tall in every way, especially with young people,” Trump told journalists.
“The investigators make great progress to find the assassin of Charlie Kirk. I hope we have it and we will take care of him in a very appropriate way,” said Trump.
