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BREAKING: Trump Ally Charlie Kirk Shot at Turning Point USA Event · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew
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  Speaker 1: Nelson breaking now. Trump Ally. Charlie Kirk, the thirty one
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  Speaker 1: year old head of Turning Point USA, is shot during
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  Speaker 1: a speaking event at Utah Valley University in Orum. The
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  Speaker 1: shooting took place about twenty minutes into his speech. By
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  Speaker 1: Standers said Kirk was hit in the neck while answering
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  Speaker 1: student questions. A UVU alert confirmed quote A single shot
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  Speaker 1: was fired on campus toward a visiting speaker. Police are
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  Speaker 1: investigating now suspect and custody. Video from the scene showed
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  Speaker 1: students running as the shots rang out and Kirk being
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  Speaker 1: rushed away by his security team. His condition remains unknown.
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  Speaker 1: Utah Governor Spencer Cox posted on x quote those responsible
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  Speaker 1: will be held fully accountable. Violence has no place in
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  Speaker 1: our public life. Americans of every political persuasion must unite
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  Speaker 1: in condemning this act. Our prayers are with Charlie, his family,
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  Speaker 1: and all those affected. Utah Senator Mike Lee wrote quote,
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  Speaker 1: please join me in praying for Charlie Kirk and the
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  Speaker 1: students gathered there. Vice President Vance added on x quote,
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  Speaker 1: say a prayer for Charlie Kirk, a genuinely good guy.
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  Speaker 1: And a young father. FBI Director Cash Pattel said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: we are closely monitoring reports of the tragic shooting involving
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. Our thoughts are with Charlie,
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  Speaker 1: his loved ones, and everyone involved. Agents will be on
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  Speaker 1: the scene quickly, and the FBI stands in full support
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  Speaker 1: of the ongoing response. Kirk himself had posted online only
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  Speaker 1: moments before the attack, quote, we are so back. Utah
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  Speaker 1: Valley University is fired up and ready for the first
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  Speaker 1: stop on the American Comeback Tour. Charlie Kirk rose to
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  Speaker 1: national prominence after co founding Turning Point USA in twenty twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Has since built the group into a major conservative force
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  Speaker 1: on campuses, created several offshoots, including Turning Point Action and
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  Speaker 1: Turning Point Faith, and he hosts The Charlie Kirk Show.
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  Speaker 1: He has been a strong supporter of President Trump and
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  Speaker 1: has often spoken out on issues like critical race theory
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  Speaker 1: and government mandates. On Wednesday, he was speaking under a
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  Speaker 1: tent at the university courtyard as part of his American
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  Speaker 1: Comeback Tour. Shots were fired from the top of a
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  Speaker 1: nearby building about two hundred yards away. The campus went
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  Speaker 1: into lockdown while police and federal agents swarmed the scene.
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  Speaker 1: The investigation is ongoing, and this is a developing story.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with Crime for the latest as it becomes available.
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  Speaker 1: On Kirk's condition. More crime and justice news. After this
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  Speaker 1: woman bites dog bystanders watch as a seventy year old
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  Speaker 1: Orlando woman bites a pitbull to save her dog during
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  Speaker 1: a brutal attack outside a grocery store. Shirley Passamanik was
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  Speaker 1: leaving Plasa Tropical Supermarket on September one when the dog
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  Speaker 1: charged her fourteen year old dog, Sparky.
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  Speaker 2: I get about fifty feet from the front door of
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  Speaker 2: the store and there's a pitbull all over my dog.
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  Speaker 1: Passamane spoke to w E sh it is out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: Unpro bolted at us and I did everything I could
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  Speaker 2: and I ended up on the ground. He stopped for
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  Speaker 2: a second. I thought he was coming back at us.
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  Speaker 1: Surveillance video showed Passamanic, who weighs about ninety pounds, striking
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  Speaker 1: with her cane and pulling with her hands. That's when
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  Speaker 1: she says she bit the dog.
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  Speaker 2: Then I heard somebody behind me say it, I got it.
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  Speaker 2: I got him, I got him.
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  Speaker 1: The bite startled the pit pull long enough for a
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  Speaker 1: man to grab its leash. I said, get your dog.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see the guy. I didn't even see what
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  Speaker 2: he looked like. He walks up, grabs the leash, and
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  Speaker 2: walks away, and I never got to see who that was.
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  Speaker 1: The man walked off without checking on her or the
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  Speaker 1: injured dog. The struggle left Passamanic bruised and Sparky with
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  Speaker 1: bite wounds. She said she was crushed that nobody stepped in.
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  Speaker 1: She added that Sparky is her reason for living. Passimanic
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  Speaker 1: said the pit bull should not be free and needs
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  Speaker 1: to be put down. Orange County Animal Control is investigating.
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  Speaker 1: Fifteen year old Kathy Alexis Perrera has been missing from Gaithersburg, Maryland,
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  Speaker 1: for ten years. She was last seen at her home
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  Speaker 1: on Mandolin Court the night of August sixteenth, twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Her family had returned that evening from a trip to
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  Speaker 1: Virginia Beach. They watched movies and shared some snacks before
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  Speaker 1: going to bed. By the next morning, Cathy was gone.
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  Speaker 1: Her younger brother, Christopher, was the first to notice she
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  Speaker 1: was missing. That same evening, the family reported her disappearance
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  Speaker 1: to police. Detectives collected hair samples and spoke with friends
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  Speaker 1: and relatives. The family also flooded social media with her photo,
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  Speaker 1: but no one came forward with any clear answers. Her mother,
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  Speaker 1: Lilian Pereira, told the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, quote,
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  Speaker 1: we came back from the beach and she was talking
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  Speaker 1: about all these goals about going to college and what
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  Speaker 1: she wanted to study. She wanted to study business and
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  Speaker 1: get her masters in Portugal. Her sister Emily recalls, quote,
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  Speaker 1: the detectives came by, took samples of her hair, talked
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  Speaker 1: to my brothers and her friends from school. Her brother
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan said, quote, we put it all throughout social media,
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  Speaker 1: asking people if they'd seen her. No one really knew
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  Speaker 1: anything about what happened to her. He added, quote, we
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  Speaker 1: still do what we can, asking around and post on
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  Speaker 1: social media. We miss her, we still talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like it ever goes away. Kathy was shy
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  Speaker 1: but friendly and loved the time that she spent with
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  Speaker 1: her siblings. She had just returned from a summer visit
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  Speaker 1: with her grandparents in Portugal. Police say she may have
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  Speaker 1: left of her own accord and could have been in
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  Speaker 1: the company of a teenage boy. She was of Portuguese descent,
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  Speaker 1: with brown hair and brown eyes, five three one twenty ears, nose, tongue,
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  Speaker 1: and nabel pierced. She wouldn't be twenty five years old today.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone with information is urged to call the Montgomery County
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  Speaker 1: Police Department at two four zero seven seventy three fifty
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  Speaker 1: four hundred. For the latest crime and justice news. Follow
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