{"id":16121,"date":"2025-09-12T07:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/16121\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:34:06","slug":"moment-suspected-charlie-kirk-gunman-flees-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/16121\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment suspected Charlie Kirk gunman flees scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new video released by the FBI has shown the alleged shooter in Charlie Kirk&#8217;s murder running across the roof of a school building, and eventually going into the wooded area near the university, where officials found the gun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/world\/2025\/0912\/1533068-kirk-reaction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mr Kirk, a 31-year-old political commentator on the Republican right who harnessed surging youth support for US President Donald Trump, was shot dead while addressing a large crowd at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police say they believe the shooter fired a single bullet from a rooftop up to 180m away, hitting Mr Kirk in the neck.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI said the suspect is seen jumping from the rooftop of a building after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Around 12pm local time on Wednesday, the suspect climbed up to a rooftop, after Mr Kirk was shot and then jumped off and ran away.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI also added that trace evidence collected from the rooftop scene included shoe impressions, a forearm imprint, and a palm print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new video released by the FBI has shown the alleged shooter in Charlie Kirk&#8217;s murder running across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-16121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}