Salt Lake City and the Site of Kirk's Final Campus Stop

Showing 38 Salt Lake City, Utah videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Salt Lake City and the surrounding Utah Valley area became permanently tied to Charlie Kirk's legacy as the site of his assassination at Utah Valley University on September 10, during what witnesses described as a campus debate event much like the hundreds Kirk had held across the country. Multiple people present that day, including construction worker Henry Dells and student Justin Hickens, later described standing within feet of Kirk when the shooting occurred, recounting the packed venue and the chaos that followed. Utah Valley University student Hunter Kozak had been mid-debate with Kirk about gun violence and mass shooters when the shooting interrupted their exchange, an encounter Kozak later said left him processing both the trauma of witnessing violence and his own complicated disagreement with Kirk's politics. The area also hosted Kirk in the hours before his death, including a Restaurantology conference appearance where Kirk spoke about entrepreneurship and faith roughly forty minutes before the shooting. In the aftermath, Salt Lake City and Utah Valley University became the subject of extensive independent investigation and speculation online, with figures including Candace Owens promoting theories about the case that Utah officials and law enforcement did not confirm, while eyewitnesses like photographer Charles McClintock Wilson pushed back publicly on claims made about their own conduct that day.