Charlie Kirk’s shooting follows Trump’s assassination attempts, GOP’s attacks

The horrible assassination of the founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk on Wednesday is the last entry of a sinister and growing count of personalities and targeted conservative institutions for violence, vandalism and murder.

The fatal shooting follows a long recent history of conservatives and republicans confronted with violence, a digital journal of Fox News of the last four years, including two attempts to assassinate against President Donald Trump in a period of about two months in 2024.

Kirk was expressed at the University of Utah Valley as part of his “American tour” when shots rang and collapsed on stage. He was transported urgently to a local hospital, where he was declared dead.

The 31 -year -old husband and father were an ally faithful to that of President Donald Trump, and visited the nation promoting the ideology of young people’s grip, especially on university campuses. He founded his conservative group over a dozen years ago.

Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, died at 31 years after the shooting of the Utah campus

Conservative commentator Benny Johnson believes that the political left lacked sympathy after President Donald Trump was killed during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. (Brendan McDermid / Reuters)

Conservatives and pro-life non-profit organizations have been targeted by shots, criminal fire and vandalism in the past four years only.

Trump himself faced two assassination attempts, especially on July 13, 2024, when he was shot in his ear while joining a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The shooting rocked the electoral cycle while Trump got up, bleed and provocative, and urged the crowd to “fight, fight, fight”. The assassination attempt intervened only two days before the National Republican Convention begins in Milwaukee.

Trump appeared to the Convention while wearing a bandage on his ear, and noted how he “had God on my side” during the attempt. The reason for the potential assassin, Thomas Crooks, 20, who was killed by an elite of the secret service, remains uncertain. The FBI underlined a complex network of personal grievances, mental health problems and a desire for notoriety as leading to the law, Fox News Digital reported.

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A few weeks later on September 15, 2024, Trump was precipitated from his golf course in Florida when shots resounded. The suspect in this assassination attempt case, Ryan Routh, posted prolificly on Trump, the elections and the policy of 2024 before attempted, previously reported Fox News Digital.

Trump’s assassination attempt, the suspect, Ryan Routh was seen in detention on Sunday, September 15, 2024, in bodysmith images released on Monday. (Martin County Sheriff Bureau)

Roth is tried Thursday during the case and described the president as an “idiot-madment idiot” in the court documents in September, reported the New York Post.

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The conservative attacks also took place at the base level, including this year, when the seat of the New Mexico Republican Party faced a criminal fire attack. The attack destroyed the entrance to the headquarters, while graffiti reading “ICE = KKK” slipped into the building.

The suspect in this case, which would also have attacked an exhibition hall of Tesla Albuquerque, was struck by federal accusations while the prosecutor General Pam Bondi stressed the incident as a worrying case of political violence.

According to the organization, the Republican Party of the New Mexico Party in Albuquerque was part of an alleged attempted criminal fire. (@ Newmexicogop / x)

The chapters of TPUSA across the country also faced other incidents of violence this year, especially when a group of students with Turning Point USA in UC Davis was attacked by masked individuals in April, Fox Digital reported at the time.

The conservative group was organizing an event “prove myself” with a guest speaker when demonstrators destroyed camera equipment, a tent, event signaling, inverted tables and attacked group staff, Tpusa said at the time.

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By thinking about 2023, the former NCAA swimmer and conservative political activist Riley Gaines was also attacked and barricated in a San Francisco State University play following a discourse to students promoting a ban on organic men to play in female sports. The event was part of a USA turning point and the Leadership Institute forum on campus.

The data show that there have been 22 times more attacks on pro-life than pro-Choix groups since the Supreme Court flight

Churches and pro-life groups also faced dozens and dozens of attacks from 2022 in response to the Supreme Court Dobbs c. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Decision, which has indeed ended the recognition of abortion as constitutional right.

The attacks included a pro-life center which was “bombed” in Buffalo, New York, in 2022, Catholic churches which were vandalized and burned, and pro-Choix demonstrators interrupting religious services and Catholic masses. The attacks followed a radical pro-Choix group declaring in a public letter that it was “open season” on the pro-life.

Charlie Kirk distributes hats before speaking at the University of Utah Valley in Orem, Utah, Wednesday September 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley / The Deseret News via AP)

In 2017, the majority whip at Steve Scalise, R-La., Was shot dead with three others when James Hodgkinson, a disturbed supporter of Bernie Sanders, sprayed a baseball field Alexandria, Virginia, while the Republican legislators practiced for the annual match of the Congress. SCALISE is almost deceased, but recovered and remains in office.

Kirk’s mortal shot on Wednesday has not yet given a suspect, with the FBI and ATF on the ground and investigating, according to Bondi.

Trump, as well as the members of his office, offered a wave of support for Kirk’s family after the tragedy.

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“The big, and even legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead,” said Trump on Truth Social on Wednesday. “No one understood or had better the hearts of young people in America than Charlie. He was loved and admired by all, especially me, and now he is no longer with us. Melania and my sympathies go to his beautiful wife Erika, and to the family. Charlie, we love you!”

Louis Casiano of Fox News Digital, Stepheny Price and Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.