The authorities in Utah were searching early Thursday for the person who killed Charlie Kirk, the charismatic founder of the nation’s pre-eminent right-wing youth activist group, after questioning and releasing two people.
No suspects were in custody about 12 hours after Mr. Kirk, a close ally of President Trump, was shot while speaking on a Utah college campus in what the state’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, and Mr. Trump described as an “assassination.”
Hopes for the fast capture of the person who fatally shot the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in Utah evaporated on Wednesday when Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, announced that the authorities had released a man he had described as a central subject of a multiagency manhunt.
Charlie Kirk built his reputation as a combative conservative voice who was part debater, part provocateur, never one to shy away from confrontation. But he was also a deeply polarizing figure, often accused of making inflammatory and, at times, overtly racist remarks. In the wake of his shocking murder, reactions have split predictably along political lines: some mourn, others celebrate. Yet, beyond the noise, one heartbreaking fact remains: two young girls have lost their father. And if you're someone consumed by political extremism, chances are, that simple human tragedy doesn't matter to you at all.
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