The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Thursday it is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information in connection with the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The reward is for information leading to the identification and arrest of those responsible for killing the conservative activist at Utah Valley University.
Kirk, 31, was fatally shot Sept. 10 while speaking to students during what was to be the opening event of his "American Comeback Tour" in Orem, Utah.
The suspect entered the Utah Valley University campus at 11:52 a.m., approximately 30 minutes before Kirk was shot. Campus surveillance footage shows the gunman climbing onto a building roof that overlooked the speaking event. After the shooting, the assassin jumped from the building and escaped to a nearby neighborhood.
Authorities have declined to release the surveillance footage or provide additional details about the person of interest beyond his estimated age.
A bolt-action high-powered rifle used in the attack was recovered in a wooded area near campus where the shooter fled, according to the FBI. The weapon will undergo thorough examination and analysis.
"We are not sure how far he has gone," an official identified as Bohls said about the suspect. However, authorities said they were confident they would identify the shooter.
Two individuals were questioned and released Wednesday in connection with the shooting.
Kirk had just begun taking audience questions when he was shot. The founder of conservative organization Turning Point USA was known for conducting campus debates with college students on controversial political topics.
"He was two questions in and then we heard the shot," Brown said. "People were trying to run out when they heard that."
University professor Michael Andersen was about 50 feet away when he heard what he initially thought was a firework.
"Then people started running out of the amphitheater, and I saw some people trying to get up out of the terraces," Andersen told KSL.
Former Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who attended the event, heard one shot before witnessing Kirk fall backward, he told Fox.
"As soon as I saw Charlie go back, you realize that it was a shot," Chaffetz told The Associated Press. "It wasn't as if there was a whole bunch of gunfire. It was one shot."
"The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead," Trump wrote. "No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie."