{"id":1929,"date":"2025-09-10T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:54:22","slug":"fbi-offers-100000-reward-in-manhunt-for-charlie-kirk-assassin-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/fbi-offers-100000-reward-in-manhunt-for-charlie-kirk-assassin-as-it-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI offers $100,000 reward in manhunt for Charlie Kirk assassin: As it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The conservative activist was murdered during a public event in Utah on Wednesday, and the suspect remains at large<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has said that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is conducting a <em>&ldquo;virtual manhunt&rdquo;<\/em> for the killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. He was shot and killed during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. The 31-year-old was struck by a single rifle round while speaking on stage to hundreds of students.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected gunman fired from a rooftop on the campus in Orem before fleeing the scene. He was recorded on multiple videos, with the FBI describing him as a male of <em>&ldquo;college age&rdquo;<\/em> but refusing to release any more details regarding his appearance until he is caught.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The agency has released images of a <em>&ldquo;person of interest&rdquo;<\/em> in the assassination, asking the public for help in identifying him and posted a&nbsp;$100,000 bounty for information leading to the capture of the perpetrator.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk, founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, was widely known for his campus debates with progressive students and for his close alliance with President Donald Trump.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The US president has described Kirk as a <em>&ldquo;martyr for truth&rdquo;<\/em> and called his murder a <em>&ldquo;dark moment for America.&rdquo;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The activist&rsquo;s death has triggered a wave of reactions, with Democrats condemning <em>&ldquo;political violence&rdquo;<\/em> and Republicans, including Trump, blaming what they describe as hostile rhetoric from the <em>&ldquo;radical left.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"70\" data-end=\"132\"><em><strong>This live feed has ended.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conservative activist was murdered during a public event in Utah on Wednesday, and the suspect remains at large US President Donald Trump has said that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is conducting a &ldquo;virtual manhunt&rdquo; for the killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. He was shot and killed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/fbi-offers-100000-reward-in-manhunt-for-charlie-kirk-assassin-as-it-happened\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}