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I'm Audie Cornish and right now a manhunt is underway and a movement is in mourning as officials raced to find the person who killed conservative political activist Charlie Kirk.
Kirk was gunned down by a single gunshot during an event on the campus of Utah Valley University on Wednesday.
And this is an image of him before that fatal shot.
The FBI is asking the public for any video or information they might have from the scene.
I want to be very clear that this is a political assassination.
I want to make it crystal clear right now to whoever did this, we will find you.
We will try you.
And we will hold you accountable.
to the furthest extent of the law.
Okay, you may have seen images of what looks like an arrest,
but officials have released the persons of interest initially taken into custody.
Now they're going door to door looking for the shooter.
The attack drew condemnation and condolences from across the political spectrum,
including from former presidents.
In a rare public statement from former President George W. Bush, he wrote,
a young man was murdered in cold blood while expressing his political views.
Members of other political parties are not our enemies.