Saturday, September 26, 2026
Report: no security plan the day Charlie Kirk was shot
Utah Valley University released an outside review on Friday of the day Charlie Kirk was shot. The college never wrote a security assessment or an event plan and left the big calls to Turning Point USA, which insisted on an outdoor courtyard. The shot came from a rooftop 400 feet away. Kirk’s family has filed a wrongful-death notice.
A man named Charlie Kirk was giving a talk outside at a college in Utah last year when someone far away shot him. He died. A report now says the college never checked the rooftops, like a fire drill where nobody checks the exits. That was far away. The police have the man they think did it, and the grown-ups are fixing the checks.
Why it worksA six-year-old reasons from what is in front of them, so the script gives them one picture, a fire drill where nobody checks the exits, and keeps the shooting a year back and far away. Expect “could that happen at my school?” Your school checks. That check is what the report says this college skipped.
- “Was it the school’s fault?”
- Partly, the report says. The college didn’t check the tall buildings around the yard. Nobody there wanted him hurt.
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Big events run on a checklist: who watches the roofs, who checks bags, who’s in charge. The report says the college never wrote one for Charlie Kirk’s talk and let his team pick a courtyard ringed by tall buildings. The shot came from a roof 400 feet away.
Why it worksThis age is working out rules and whether adults follow them, so the script hands them the checklist and shows where the lines went blank: no written plan, and a yard chosen by the speaker’s team. Expect “so who was in charge?” Nobody, the report says. The college handed the decisions to Turning Point.
- “Why didn’t they just move it inside?”
- Some college staff suggested indoor rooms. Kirk’s team wanted the courtyard because he’d spoken there before, and the college went along.
- “Did the school get in trouble?”
- Not yet. The review says nobody there acted in bad faith. Kirk’s family has filed a notice that usually comes before a lawsuit.
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If a speaker’s own team insists on the risky spot, whose fault is the risk? The review says Turning Point wanted the courtyard and UVU went along with no line-of-sight check. Second: it found no bad faith at the college. Does that settle a wrongful-death claim?
Why it worksA teenager can hold two true things: the college skipped the checks, and the man who fired was someone else. The script hands them both, plus the reviewers’ finding of no bad faith, and asks what that clears. Expect “why sue the school and not the shooter?” The shooter is in criminal court. The notice asks what the college owed him.
- “Isn’t it the shooter’s fault, full stop?”
- He’s charged with aggravated murder and pleaded not guilty. The review asks a different question: whether the college made his shot easier.
- “Can the family sue a public college?”
- They’ve sent a wrongful-death notice, the step before a suit. Their lawyer says the buck stopped with UVU and the police.
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