Updated on: September 11, 2025 03:58 PM IST
Charlie Kirk was speaking at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University on Thursday when an unknown shooter shot him in the neck.
Charlie Kirk, Executive Director of Conservative Turning Point USA AdvocC Group, spoke at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University on Thursday, when an unknown shooter attacked him. He died after being shot in the neck. Now, late night host Jimmy Kimmel has taken Charlie Kirk’s assassination on social media and addressed serious concerns of ‘insensitive’ gun violence.
What Jimmy Kimmel wrote on Charlie Kirk’s murder
Jimmy Kimmel, who has often seen as a sharp critic of Donald Trump, urged people to stay with all the “angry finger-binds” and called for compassion. In an Instagram post, he shared a note, which said, “Instead of anger pointing to the finger, can we just agree for a day that shooting another human is terrible and demonic?”
He said, “From my family, we send love to Kirks and all children, parents and innocents who are victims of insensitive gun violence.”
How Hollywood stars reacted
Many other Hollywood stars have also reacted to the murder of Charlie Kirk. Arnold Schwarzenegger took in X and wrote, “My heart is with Charlie Kirk’s family, and with the United States. Politics has become a disease in this country, and it is fatal. But do not listen to the pessimists who say that there is no cure. We want to find our better angels. We will not do anything. It is a terrible tragedy.
Chris Pratt wrote on X, “Praying for his wife and young children for our country, for Charlie Kirk. We need God’s grace. God helps us.”
Trump said on the truth social, “Great, and even mythological, Charlie Kirk, is dead. Anyone in the United States understood the heart of the youth than Charlie or not.” He ordered the US flag to be reduced to half staff by Sunday evening.
Meanwhile, there was a manhunt running for a Kirk shooter. A person of interest was taken into custody and was later released, FBI director Kash Patel said in a social media post.
