{"id":4149,"date":"2025-09-12T15:02:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:02:42","slug":"fbi-releases-photos-of-suspect-in-charlie-kirks-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=4149","title":{"rendered":"FBI releases photos of suspect in Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OREM: US authorities on Thursday released pictures of a man they were hunting in the killing<\/a> of conservative youth leader Charlie Kirk, hours after recovering the high-powered rifle<\/a> believed to have been used in the fatal shooting at Utah Valley University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirk, 31, a superstar on the Republican right and a close ally of President Donald Trump, was killed by a single gunshot to the neck while addressing a large crowd on Wednesday. The FBI has described the killing as a \u201ctargeted event\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FBI issued grainy photos of a person of interest wearing a black baseball cap, dark sunglasses and what appeared to be jeans, with a long-sleeved top emblazoned with a design including an American flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities described the suspect as being of university age and acknowledged the gunman remained at large after escaping into woodland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re doing everything we can to find him, and we\u2019re not sure how far he has gone yet, but we will do our best,\u201d FBI Special Agent Robert Bohls told a media briefing. The FBI also announced a reward of up to $100,000 for information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Bohls said the presumed murder weapon, a \u201chigh powered bolt action rifle,\u201d was recovered in a wooded area where the shooter had fled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle, the Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported on Thursday, citing a person familiar with the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was Trump who first announced Kirk\u2019s death. In a video address<\/a>, Trump cited a \u201cdark moment for America\u201d and suggested the left wing was responsible. On Thursday, the president paid tribute to Kirk as a \u201cgiant of his generation\u201d and announced he would posthumously award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America\u2019s highest civilian honour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published in Dawn, September 12th, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OREM: US authorities on Thursday released pictures of a man they were hunting in the killing of conservative youth leader Charlie Kirk, hours after recovering the high-powered rifle believed to have been used in the fatal shooting at Utah Valley University. Kirk, 31, a superstar on the Republican right and a close ally of President Donald Trump, was killed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_828796993651875":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions\/4151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}