GUNSHOT, SCREAMS
Wearing a white T-shirt with the phrase “Freedom” throughout the entrance, Kirk sat in a chair beneath a tent emblazoned with the slogans The American Comeback and Show Me Incorrect.
He had been answering questions from the big viewers gathered round him at about 12.20pm native time.
The occasion, the primary of about 15 scheduled throughout the nation by the tip of October, drew greater than 3,000 folks.
Seconds earlier than he was shot, Kirk was being queried by an viewers member about gun violence, in accordance with a number of movies of the occasion posted on-line.
“Are you aware what number of transgender People have been mass shooters over the past 10 years?” an viewers member requested.
Kirk responded, “Too many.”
The questioner adopted up: “Are you aware what number of mass shooters there have been in America over the past 10 years?”
“Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk requested.
These have been his final phrases earlier than a single shot rings out.
Footage posted to social media present Kirk reaching up together with his proper hand as blood gushes from the left facet of his neck. He was then rushed away on a stretcher by his safety element.
“As quickly as that shot went out, he fell again,” former Utah congressman Jason Chaffetz, who was on the occasion, instructed Fox Information. “Everyone hit the deck … lots of people began screaming, after which everyone began working.”
