THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come

⁨446⁩ ⁨likes⁩

Submitted ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨slate@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/762b1435-d84a-4781-bc20-356c0aebc96e.jpeg

Still investigating cause of death, but it appears to be some sort of puncture wound in the neck region

source

Comments

Sort:hotnew top

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
1000001981

source
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
FAR too many “coincidences” for this to not have been an inside job.

The weird pre-prepared AI video of Trump announcing his death

The plane randomly arriving and likely picking the shooter up

The shooter being clearly an expert marksman

The right all coordinating to declare a civil war within seconds of it happening

The FBI conveniently not being able to find the guy

Not 1 but 2 plants in the crowd to distract authorities

Etc etc etc.

Release the Epstein files you orange pedophile piece of shit.

source
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
Gosh you mean someone executed a perfectly aimed shot into his carotid and picked him off like a clay pigeon in a shooting gallery, escaped a security patrolled event without being identified, and you think that might not be just some rando? Wow FBI that’s some stellar detective work!

source
- CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  The Kash Patel special
  
  source
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Target by feds as a false flag. And by feds I don’t me just all fed I mean corrupt ones.

source
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Wild, I was pretty sure his neck just did that.

source
finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
What was the theory before? Crime of passion, gun and run?

Like he just had a “say what again” moment to that bullshit Kirk was saying on stage?

source
- HasturInYellow@lemmy.world ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  My theory is that trump literally sacrificed him for several reasons.
  
  Shore up the base who was being lost due to Epstein/bankruptcy by giving a clear enemy (the left, who definitely did this, because they are mean)
  
  Cause a massive distraction to the Epstein files
  
  Give ample cover to crack down on political enemies with ease
  
  Get rid of Charlie Kirk. I mean what a d-bag. No one liked him.
  
  source
  - finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    It would explain how Trump had that tweet ready so quickly.
    
    source
- But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  “Let me just clean my rifle on the roof of this school building, what could go… OH FUCK!”
  
  source
  - livejamie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Like MSNBC saying it could have been one of his supporters celebrating
    
    source
- wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What if the gunman was Kirk’s estranged gay lover? That’s my theory
  
  source
  - krunklom@lemmy.zip ⁨37⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    The more likely explanation is that it was the ghost of Kohn Wilkes Booth.
    
    source
db2@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Of course he was targeted. The shooter is likely dead by now. They probably called it Operation Watch Charlie or something.

He was killed as a distraction.

Image

source
- Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Possible… but he had a lot of enemies, and there’s more and more people with literally nothing left to lose in the USA every single day, so it was probably inevitable on a long enough timescale.
  
  source
  - SARGE@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Who would have thought that making millions of people’s lives actively worse in an already not great time in the most widely-armed country in the world could have POSSIBLY led to current events???
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  He was killed as a distraction.
  
  Susie Wiles: “Sir, they leaked the live copy of your letter to Jeffery Epstein. It’s having absolutely no effect on your public approval and Congress seems incapable of doing anything to stall your accrual of executive level powers. What should we do?”
  
  Trump: “I’m a great president, Susie. Some say I’m the greatest president who ever lived. That’s why I make the big decisions. And I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. We’ve got to save the nation. We need to get stronger. Some people are saying we’re not strong, but they’re wrong, Susie. This is the best this country has ever been and it’s only going to get better. Are you ready to make this country better, Susie? I don’t think you’re ready… you’re nodding. Does that mean you’re ready?”
  
  Susie Wiles: “Yes, Mr. President. Anything for you, Mr. President.”
  
  Trump: “Go talk to Pete Hegseth. He’ll tell you what to do.”
  
  Pete Hegseth, drunkenly: “Susthy, ith so good to thee you again. But I lothe to wath you leaf.”
  
  Susie Wiles: “The President said you would know what to do.”
  
  Pete: “Yeah, uh… kill the big head guy. You know the one. With the tiny face.”
  
  Susie: “Charlie Kirk”
  
  Pete: loud burping noise
  
  Susie: “Right away, Mr. War Fighter Commander Pete.”
  
  sounds of gunfire
  
  Susie Wiles: “Mr. President! In a strange turn of fate, it appears someone else shot Charlie Kirk before we could get to him.”
  
  Trump: “All according to plan, Susie. I’m the smartest man who ever lived. You can thank me with a kiss. Get over here, sweetie.”
  
  source
  - WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Susie: you can grab me by the pussy. I’ll just let you do it.
    
    source
- Carmakazi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I swear you people would watch World War III kick off, vomiting your own digestive system out from acute radiation sickness, and still be saying “This is just a distraction from Epstein!”
  
  More than one thing can happen on planet Earth. It doesn’t all have to tie back to Trump and Epstein.
  
  source
  - Ioughttamow@fedia.io ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Hey man, we’re giving him the care and consideration he gave to sandy hook
    
    source
  - snooggums@piefed.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That's what someone who wants to distract from Epstein would say!
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
  - NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    As a wise man (i.e. me) once memed: Image
    
    source
  - Mike_Hunt@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    yeah but where are they?
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
  - takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The World War 3 has already has started, just many are refusing to acknowledge it. If Ukraine won’t stop Russia it will continue to the rest of the Europe. We already North Korea fighting within Europe.
    
    Going back to trump, he is all about himself and no empathy towards others. He is willing to get Ukrainians and Palestinians killed in exchange for whatever putin and bibi are giving him. He had no problem of having two politicians assassinated to just distract from No King protests.
    
    So yeah, I wouldn’t put past him to use him for political gain, like excuse to deploy military in Utah or some other goal he wants to achieve.
    
    Wasn’t Kirk on the release Epstein files bandwagon anyway? That sounds like something that would let you fall out of favor.
    
    We are no longer in the first term where there were people that would say “no” to him.
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
  - DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    I swear you people would watch World War III kick off
    
    uuh… Oooh yeah (most, mostly right wingers) Americans always consider themselves as the only nation on this country. Yeah go ahead, do it.
    
    source
- takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Will this be excuse to send military to Utah or is he planning something else?
  
  source
  - UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The bullet was fired from Chicago.
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
  - Keeponstalin@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    He’s planning on going after all political dissenters from what he said when he addressed the nation yesterday
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
  - blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Trump sending the military to Orem would be really friggin weird. Unless he’s sending a brigade of recruiters.
    
    source
- MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What was the timing of the US Senate vote to not release the Epstein Files?
  
  source
lorski@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
it sure as hell was not random.

source
EightBitBlood@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The blood shooting from Mr. Kirks neck alone was not good enough evidence to determine if the shooter hit what he was targeting. Great work FBI. At this rate, you’ll soon be able to confirm the shooter used a gun.

source
- Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  His neck just did that.
  
  source
- finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  TBF the laws in the USA are wack enough that the weapon might not fall under the definition of deadly weapon and therefore firearms related crime.
  
  source
  - EightBitBlood@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Better still:
    
    Mr Kirk was on his “Prove me Wrong” tour.
    
    And the assassin chose to prove Mr Kirk wrong in a way words couldn’t.
    
    But - If money can legally be protected as speech, what else should we consider protected under the first amendment?
    
    If Mr Kirk was openly asking to be proven wrong, then couldn’t the assassins bullet be protected under free speech as a clear (but violent) answer to that question?
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
Lucky_777@lemmy.world ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
I hate that this fuck has the last name Kirk. Huge Star Trek fan

source
- BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  Image
  
  source
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Next up: FBI confirms a firearm was used in the shooting.

source
- ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  BREAKING: FBI Increasingly Suspects Murder As Cause of Death in Kirk Shooting
  
  source
- ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Ongoing: FBI suspect that political landscape might be toxic
  
  source
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Do you mean to say it wasn’t a random bullet?

I never would have reached that conclusion on my own, thank you FBI, you are truly the world’s greatest detectives. Thinking outside the box!

source
- T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  His neck actually just did that by itself
  
  source
  - phx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Actually, he’s such a gun afficiando that he regularly eats bullets for breakfast, but this time accidentally ate a live round which was later set off by stomach acid and propelled in an upward direction at a slight angle.
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
  - outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    No it took an entire spevial effects team.
    
    source
- sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I feel like there are parts of the country where it does need to be clarified. Utah may be one of them. 😉
  
  source
Balaquina@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
TIL that I could be in the FBI. Great detective work guys.

source
- AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  When you realize how low the bar is, you should never have imposter syndrome again.
  
  Literally that is why people keep joining this grift. If you’re willing to pledge loyalty, take advantage of people, and help destroy your own country, you can make bank.
  
  The people that fund the right refuse to let a penny of their money go towards taxes to pay for public services, but they will literally throw absurd amounts of money at anything that promotes their agenda.
  
  source
  - RFKJrsBrainworm@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I read a really interesting article years ago that spoke about that happening on Communist China back in Mao’s time. Essentially all the folks who were competent retired/replaced by folks with connections to the party not the role. Thus corruption infiltrated.
    
    I can’t find the article and I don’t remember the professor’s name who wrote it but I remember thinking it was odd that a Chinese professor was writing about the government and letting it be published. I think he may have gotten in trouble after the fact or something else.
    
    source
BetaBlake@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t think he was shot, I think his neck just did that

source
- outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It did not in fact do that ay all. Special effects. Crisis actor.
  
  source
- apftwb@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  A truck backfired happened to back fire at the same time.
  
  source
- rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  "Grunthos was reported to have been “disappointed” by the poem’s reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled “My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles” when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. " --Douglas Adams HHGTTG
  
  source
- ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The bullshit could no longer be contained.
  
  source
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Like, duh. In other news: water is wet.

source
jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Now Trump is going to send the army to guard the streets of buttfuck nowhere Utah from all this violence, right? Right?

source
- slate@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Oh don’t worry, they’ll institute police checkpoints everywhere across the country for “safety” and “national security”. Worked great for Ireland!
  
  source
  - MML@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Come to think of it I really need my brakes checked and my pool cleaned.
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
- BetaBlake@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Everyone knows the shooter was from Chicago, so this still counts as Chicago crime
  
  /s
  
  source
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Tinfoil hat time: Based on the close up of the shooting, it looks like he got shot right in the corrotid artery, which has a very high mortality rating. This wasn’t a lucky shot, this was well aimed. If you look at the tape, it doesn’t look like someone in the crowd had a gun, no one in the crowd was reacting before the shot occurred, and no one saw a gun pulled. In the crowd full of people, how to you avoid everyone else and make a kill shot like that. I legit believe this was a shot taken from far away with the ability to make a sniper shot like that. Then, before he’s been officially pronounced dead, Trump posts “The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!” Trump wrote on his social media platform. If he hasn’t officially been declared dead, why is Trump saying that Charlie Kirk is dead. Next Trump is blaming the left with no proof. I’m calling it, Trump had Kirk assassinated as a false flag operation, and this will be trump’s reischtag fire. Buckle up.

source
- frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The shooting spot was about 250 yards away. That’s WWII sniping range, but not particularly far for modern precision rifles. According to Ryan Cleckner (US Army Ranger sniper), precision marksman training in the Army still uses iron sights out to 600 yards. A good setup these days can hit a dinner plate (read: a human head) at 1000 yards, and that’s not even pushing it.
  
  They didn’t have to hit him the neck. They just needed to hit is general head area. They got lucky hitting the artery dead on, but any head hit has a very high probability of death.
  
  There are millions of bench rest shooters with a bolt action rifle who could make that shot.
  
  source
  - The_v@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    If you have a regular 30.06 bullet with a rifle sighted in at 200 yards, it will hit around 5" lower than you aim at 250 yards depending on the gun and conditions.
    
    If you have it sighted in at 300 yards and aim for center mass right the bullet will hit around 5" above where they are aiming.
    
    In both conditions the bullet hits the neck area.
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
  - couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Whoever did it, at least we know (s)he had to be part of a well regulated militia
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
  - morphballganon@mtgzone.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Shooter was probably aiming for head and the bullet lost a few inches of altitude in the air
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
- tyler@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You don’t think that maybe trump just doesn’t wait for a news article to be posted? Maybe he got a call and since he’s incessantly posting tweets he did it before an editor could approve the news article change? There’s a lot more simple explanations.
  
  source
  - Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yes, this is also highly likely, which is why I started my post with “tin foil hat time.” Even if that’s the case, even if the govt had 0 involvement in his death, I still think this incident will be used as a means for trump to further solidify power.
    
    source
- python@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Based on the close up of the shooting, it looks like he got shot right in the corrotid artery,
  
  There are two carotid arteries. Based on the footage, it looks to me like only his left carotid artery got hit. It would make sense because bullets make a way bigger hole when exiting than they do when entering.
  I don’t think anyone, no matter how skilled they are, would be aiming to do that. It’s way more likely to be a failed headshot or shot to the torso.
  
  source
- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  There is video of a person dressed in black skedaddling back over the rooftop, clearly the shooter. No sane shooter is aiming for the neck, hell no. Pretty sure it was a chest shot that tumbled around his ribcage and exited his neck. Weird shit happens when a teeny projectile hits meat and bone at 3,400FPS.
  
  source
- AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  false flag operation
  
  Claims like this give both too much credit for action and too little to strategy.
  
  there’s no reason to believe this specific action was a false flag operation when in the current environment it’s simple to believe a radicalized individual
  
  isn’t that one of the benefits of the continuous hatred, outrage, divisiveness, chaos? There’s always going to be stuff like this happening, so you always have an event to capitalize on without the risk of doing it yourself
  
  source
  - yeather@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Image
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
  - Talaraine@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I dunno, this happening right around the same time the Senate voted YET AGAIN against the release of the Epstein files may be a thing
    
    source
  - Vupware@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Ockham’s Razor
    
    source
- mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  +1
  
  source
- abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  On the day before 9/11 of all days.
  
  source
teletext@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Nah, that was random gang violence. Charly tried to sell crack on the wrong turf.

source
yesman@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Crazy times to live when you see the FBI go from Darth Vader to Dark Helmet.

source
- ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Holding press conferences with the visor down … sounding loud, hollow and important … every once in a while opening the visor to show an idiot trying to clarify what they said.
  
  source
Theprogressivist@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Image

source
huquad@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
No this wasn’t a school shooting! This was targeted. The horror!

source
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Can we stark calling the shooter Mario? I wish he had a better escape plan like a janitor outfit and beard

source
DScratch@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Luigi was caught in like 24 hours with a manifesto, confession, gun, bodycam footage, and a gps tracker that proves he done it.

This guy is a ghost.

BUT THEYVE SECURED THE WOODS GUISE!

source
13igTyme@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Honestly, it would be some pretty funny shit if he got hit by a random bullet someone shot into the air from like a mile or so.

source
aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
What a relief that they they secured those nearby trees.

source
selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Oh? Like maybe the hate finally needed to break free of his hotdog skin?

source
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Geniuses … guy who called for violence against people, wanted to deny people’s rights, making fun of their misery, downplaying deaths of other people, publicly mocking others in distress and making millions of dollars off it all … and doing it all on a daily basis on national platforms with a following of millions … FBI suddenly thinks that people might want to kill this person.

source
Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m getting shit for not crying my face off meanwhile the FBI making dad jokes!?

source
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I mean… fuckface got got during a school shooting. LOTS of people get murdered during school shootings every fucking day in this country because we worship assault rifles.

It actually makes a lot of sense to indicate if this was a targeted assassination or if someone missed while aiming at kindergarten nap time.

source
TxzK@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Nah, his neck kinda just did that

source

-> View More Comments