Tim Allen used his 9/11 remembrance post to honor Charlie Kirk‘s family after the conservative political commentator’s death.
“On this sad and [sic] day remembering 9-11. I add a somber prayer for Charlie Kirks family,” Allen, 72, wrote via X on Thursday, September 11. “This is a very dark moment.”
Allen was one of several celebrities to speak out after Kirk was killed at age 31 during the Wednesday, September 10, shooting at Utah Valley University.
“It’s with a heavy heart that we, the Turning Point USA leadership team, write to notify you that early this afternoon, Charlie went to his eternal reward with Jesus Christ in Heaven,” Turning Point USA, which Kirk founded, said in a statement.
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Before his death, Kirk welcomed a daughter and a son with wife Erika Frantzve in 2022 and 2024, respectively. He was speaking at the event on Wednesday before “a single shot” was fired on campus from around 200 yards away. Kirk was subsequently taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
President Donald Trump spoke out hours later, sharing via the White House’s X account, “The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie.”
Trump continued: “The president wrote in a statement shared by the White House’s X account. “He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!”
Other celebrities also paid their respects. Chris Pratt wrote via X, “Praying for Charlie Kirk right now, for his wife and young children, for our country. We need God’s grace. God help us,” while Candace Cameron Bure wrote, “We love you, Charlie. Well done, good and faithful servant.”
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The FBI is still on the search for the man who killed Kirk at a Utah college campus. During a press conference on Thursday, agents revealed they found a “footwear impression” along with a palm imprint and a forearm imprint. The authorities believe these items could help identify the killer, who allegedly used a “high-powered bolt-action rifle” they found dumped in a “wooded area.”
Sources told The New York Times that bullets were also recovered in the area where the killer fled. Tests were done on the bullets and the rifle but no leads have turned up based on that evidence.
The commissioner of Utah’s Department of Public Safety Beau Mason said the suspect “appears to be of college age.”
