The FBI has released images of a person of interest in the shooting that killed Charlie Kirk.
The conservative activist was fatally shot on Wednesday during a scheduled debate at Utah Valley University. The suspect is still at large.
“We are asking the public’s help identifying this person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University,” the Salt Lake City branch of the FBI posted on X. The account also shared photos of the person wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses.
The FBI is offering up to $100,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible for Kirk’s murder.
The FBI also said on Thursday that it had recovered what they believe is the weapon that was used in the shooting.
A “high-powered bolt action rifle” that was found in the woods near where the incident took place was wrapped in a towel and authorities say that the location of the weapon matches the route that the suspect would have traveled.
The cartridge was still in the chamber and three unused cartridges had what authorities described as “transgender and anti-fascist” writing on them.
Law enforcement still hasn’t determined if the writing is material to the incident or a ruse to throw investigators off.
The cartridges have been sent to Quantico, Virginia to undergo high-tech testing at the FBI’s main forensics laboratory.
Donald Trump and his MAGA followers have already attempted to make the suspect a Democrat.
“For years, those eon the radical Left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals,” Trump posted on social media Wednesday.
On Thursday, Trump announced plans to award Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom and ordered all American flags to be lowered to half-staff through Sunday evening.
