Mystery bearded man in crowd at Charlie Kirk shooting seen cheering and looking back after gunshot
A video has emerged that appears to show a bearded man celebrating and looking in the direction of the gunshot moments after Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
Footage shared widely online, and ripped from TV feeds, shows a young man wearing a black T-shirt and a backwards baseball cap pumping his fists and cheering in the immediate aftermath of the shot that killed the young conservative activist on a college campus in Utah on Wednesday afternoon.
He appears to be looking backward in the direction of where the shot came from.
The unidentified man, with long hair and a beard, remained standing while other spectators threw themselves to the ground in the wake of the gunshot, which hit Kirk, a 31-year-old father of two, in the neck as he spoke at an event at Utah Valley University.
“This guy happens to know where the shooter was and is looking back, cheering him on after the lifeless body of Charlie Kirk has fallen to the ground,” one user wrote on X sharing the clip.
“This guy cheered after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I have no words left,” another X user wrote.
“How psychotic do you have to be to cheer as Charlie Kirk gushes blood and dies, while others scream and cower?” a third added.
The Utah County Sheriff’s Department said it has been contacted about the video.
The manhunt for Kirk’s assassin continued as politicians from both sides of the aisle condemned the killing.
The FBI and the Utah Public Safety Department have both said the shooting was a targeted attack, but no motive has been given for the killing.
The FBI’s Salt Lake City field office released photos of a “person of interest.”
Horrific footage shared on social media in the immediate aftermath of the gunshot shows Kirk recoiling.
