The FBI comes out of the photos of the person of interest in the murder of Charlie Kirk

The FBI published two photos of a person of interest in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a close ally of President Donald Trump who played an influential role in reducing young republican voters. The shooter, who pulled a single blow from a distant roof, remained generally and not identified Thursday almost 24 hours after the investigation.

The release of a person’s photos in a hat, sunglasses and a long -sleeved black shirt, as well as a reward of $ 100,000 for information leading to an arrest, reflected the urgent call for the application of laws for the help of the public to locate the shooter, who disappeared after having jumped from the roof and fleeing a wooded area near the University of Utah where Kirk was killed in a targeted attack.

Investigators reviewed potential clues, including an impression of palm and an impression of shoes found near the scene, as well as a bolt in Boulon of caliber Mauser hidden in a towel in a wooded area near the university campus along what they suspect of being the path that the shooter has fled. In addition to the used cartridge recovered in the room, three other laps were loaded in the magazine, according to information disseminated among the police and described at the Associated Press. The weapon and ammunition are analyzed medico-legal by the police in a federal laboratory for clues that could help identify the shooter or the reason.

The new information has at least suggested modest progress in an investigation into a murder that the police treated as the last example of political violence to convulse the United States through the ideological spectrum. However, key questions remained unanswered. The police had not yet identified the shooter or disclosed a reason and recognized during a press conference Thursday that the appearance of the suspect at the university age may have helped the person to blend on in the university campus where Kirk was shot.

The attack on Wednesday afternoon, carried out in broad daylight while Kirk spoke of social problems in a courtyard of Utah Valley University, was captured on macabre videos circulating on social networks. The videos show that Kirk speaks in a portable microphone when suddenly a shot sounds. Kirk can be seen reaching the right hand while the blood springs from the left side of its neck. The amazed spectators drop and cry before people start to run away.

Trump, who was joined by the Democrats to condemn violence, said that he would award Kirk the presidential liberty medal, the highest civilian honor in the United States, while vice-president JD Vance and his wife, USHA, had to visit Kirk’s family in Salt Lake City. Vance published a memory on X telling their friendship, going back to the first messages in 2017, thanks to the race of the Senate of Vance and finally praying after hearing the shooting.

“A large part of the success we have experienced in this administration directly retraces Charlie’s ability to organize and convene,” wrote Vance. “He didn’t just help us win in 2024, he helped us with the staff of the whole government.”

The Kirk coffin was to be transported by aircraft aboard the Air Force two from Utah to Arizona, where its organization of young non -profit policies, Turning Point USA, is based.

Kirk took up questions about armed violence

Kirk was expressed during a debate organized by Turning Point at the courtyard of the center of Sorensen on the campus.

The event, presented as Kirk’s first judgment of “The American Comeback Tour”, had generated a polarizing campus reaction. An online petition calling on university administrators to prevent Kirk from appearing has received nearly 1,000 signatures. The University published a statement last week by quoting the rights of the first amendment and affirming its “commitment to freedom of expression, an intellectual investigation and a constructive dialogue”.

Last week, Kirk posted on X images of clips of news showing that his visit sparked controversy. He wrote: “What’s going on in Utah?”

Immediately before the shooting, he answered questions from a member of the public on armed violence.

“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters in the past 10 years?” The person asked. Kirk replied: “Too much”.

The interrogator followed: “Do you know how many mass shooters have there been in America in the past 10 years?”

“Count or not count the violence of the gangs?” Kirk asked.

Then a shot rang.

The shooter, which Governor Spencer Cox has promised would be held responsible in a state with the death penalty, wore dark clothes and taken from a building roof at a certain distance.

Madison Lattin looked a few tens of meters from Kirk’s left when she heard the ball hit.

“Blood falls and flows, and you are as if scared, not only for him, but your own security,” she said.

She saw people falling into a strange silence struck immediately by cries. She and others have run. Some fell and were trampled on in the jostling.

When Lattin learned later that Kirk died, she cried, she said, describing him as a model that had shown her how to fight for the truth.

About 3,000 people were present, according to a press release from the UTAH Ministry of Public Security. The University’s police department had six officers working on the event, as well as Kirk’s own security details, the authorities said.

Condemnation through the political spectrum

The shooting attracted a rapid bipartite conviction when Democratic officials joined Trump and other Kirk Republican allies to denounce violence.

“The murder of Charlie Kirk breaks my heart. My deepest sympathies are with his wife, two young children and friends,” said Gabrielle Giffords, the former democratic deputy who was injured in a 2011 shooting in his Arizona district.

The shooting seemed ready to be part of a touch of political violence which affected a range of ideologies and representatives of the two main political parties. The attacks include the assassination of a legislator from the state of Minnesota and her husband at home in June, the bombing of the fires of a Colorado parade in June to demand hostages from Hamas and a fire which takes place in the chamber of the Governor of Pennsylvania, which is Jewish in April. The most notorious of these events is Trump’s shooting during a Pennsylvania campaign rally last year.