Turning Point USA knew of safety issues but insisted Charlie Kirk converse outside, report says | Charlie Kirk taking pictures

A brand new report says that Turning Point USA insisted the conservative political group’s chief Charlie Kirk converse outside at Utah Valley University – the place he was finally assassinated – regardless of safety issues raised together with his crew by the college’s leaders and its police chief.

The impartial report with these findings was commissioned by UVU and launched on Friday. The report examined safety procedures main as much as the 31-year-old’s deadly taking pictures on 10 September 2025 throughout a chat on the college’s campus in Orem, Utah.

According to the 158-page report, college workers really useful Turning Point USA (TPUSA) transfer its occasion to a safer location weeks earlier than Kirk’s slaying. However, TPUSA “insisted upon” an outside location which “created vital protecting operations issues”, the report stated.

It added {that a} face-to-face, pre-event briefing and walkthrough with UVU police chief Jeff Long and the TPUSA safety element – together with the group’s safety supervisor Dan Flood – “also needs to have occurred” on UVU’s campus hours previous to the occasion.

“Chief Long texted Dan Flood to satisfy on the Hall of Flags outside pedestrian walkway at 11[am], nevertheless, this face-to-face assembly didn’t happen,” the report stated.

Kirk was shot and killed by a sniper that day within the early afternoon.

According to the report, the college additionally requested TPUSA for an estimated attendance determine. But the group by no means supplied one, regardless of saying it will management ticketing for the occasion, Utah’s Salt Lake Tribune newspaper reported.

“Based on our overview of all obtainable info, that at no time throughout the occasions main as much as the assassination of Charlie Kirk, or in its aftermath, did any worker or agent of UVU act in unhealthy religion or in willful and wanton disregard for the protection of others,” the report stated.

However, it additionally famous UVU’s having deferred to TPUSA on numerous occasion logistics. “Several key occasion safety selections have been deferred to the TPUSA area consultant although UVU workers members raised issues, together with issues associated to holding the occasion within the outside fountain courtyard space and utilizing TPUSA’s ticketing course of,” the college’s report stated.

“Those selections positioned the occasion in an space that was tougher to regulate and restricted UVU’s capacity to acquire dependable, real-time info relating to anticipated attendance and crowd dimension.”

The report added: “UVU ought to have retained decision-making authority over key security-related points, together with venue choice, ticketing, entry management and different circumstances essential to help campus security.”

In response to the report, Kirk household lawyer Brett Parkinson stated: “UVU hosted this occasion, and in doing so, assumed accountability for the protection of all in attendance, together with Charlie. The buck stopped with UVU management and legislation enforcement.

“Justice for Charlie and his household requires true accountability for UVU’s deadly shortcomings that day.”

Meanwhile, a press release from Jon Anderson, UVU’s president, stated the college had a accountability to “be taught from the findings of this overview, and comply with by means of on its suggestions”.

“This requires humility, an trustworthy examination of our insurance policies and practices, and a dedication to behave on what we be taught,” Anderson’s assertion additionally stated.

Anderson, who turned the college’s president in August, additionally stated in his assertion that UVU had made “significant progress in strengthening campus security over the previous 12 months”.

Kirk’s household is planning to sue the college. His household alleged in a 16 September legal notice presaging wrongful dying litigation that UVU had positioned “a politically controversial determine like Charlie Kirk in an outside occasion … surrounded by tall buildings and different elevated commentary platforms” – and that the setup was like “strolling him right into a fishbowl”.

UVU stated it was conscious of the discover and stated it “addresses authorized issues in step with our established processes”, in keeping with the Tribune.

Utah resident Tyler Robinson has been charged with aggravated homicide in reference to Kirk’s killing. He has pleaded not responsible, and no trial date had been set for him as of Friday.