At about noon on Wednesday, Charlie Kirk, the conservative organizer, activist, and media mogul, takes the stage for the latest stop on what he's been calling the American comeback tour.

It's a series of talks that he's holding at colleges across the country.

This stop was at Utah Valley University.

It's about 30 minutes south of Salt Lake City.

As the event gets underway, Kirk starts to work the audience of about 3,000 people.

Bring the best lives that Utah has to offer.

He starts tossing Trump-themed hats into the crowd.

Then he settles into a chair underneath a tent, where he prepares to field questions in a debate format that Kirk likes to call, prove me wrong.

A few minutes into this, Kirk is asked the kind of question that he relishes by a liberal-sounding person in the audience.

So do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?

Too many.

This person follows up, trying to establish just how rare it is for a trans person to carry out a mass shooting.

Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?

Kirk responds with a follow-up question of his own.

Counting or not counting gang vitals?

Great.

When suddenly, a single shot rings out.

What happens next is captured by cell phone cameras from seemingly every angle.

Kirk slumps over.

Blood begins to pour out of his neck.

He falls out of the chair.

It is clear that he is gravely wounded.

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