Deseret News Reporters on Covering Kirk's Assassination and Trial
Showing 8 Deseret News videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
Utah's Deseret News occupies a distinct role in this material: not just a source covering Charlie Kirk's assassination, but one of the outlets fighting in court for public access to the resulting trial. Reporter Brigham Tomco, who had interviewed Kirk at Turning Point USA's Phoenix headquarters just weeks before his death, described a side of Kirk focused less on confrontation and more on building lasting institutions and mentoring young people toward marriage and faith, while noting that colleagues who witnessed the shooting firsthand are still processing what they saw. Fellow Deseret News reporter Eva Terry gave her own first-hand account of the chaos on campus that day. Separately, alongside the Salt Lake Tribune, the Associated Press, and several television networks, Deseret News intervened in the Tyler Robinson case to argue for advance notice whenever the court considers sealing records, a request Robinson's defense called overly broad. Judge Tony Graf ultimately ordered only limited redactions, roughly one page, from a sealed hearing transcript, finding that most of the disputed material was already public through charging documents and prior press conferences.