{"id":192217,"date":"2025-09-10T19:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/fbi-director-kash-patel-says-they-are-closely-monitoring-after-conservative-commentator-charlie-kirk-shooting\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T19:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:18:21","slug":"fbi-director-kash-patel-says-they-are-closely-monitoring-after-conservative-commentator-charlie-kirk-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/fbi-director-kash-patel-says-they-are-closely-monitoring-after-conservative-commentator-charlie-kirk-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Director Kash Patel Says They Are Closely Monitoring After Conservative Commentator Charlie Kirk Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/kash-patel\/\" title=\"Kash Patel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kash Patel<\/strong><\/a> is speaking out following the tragic shooting of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/charlie-kirk\/\" title=\"Charlie Kirk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Charlie Kirk<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old Director of the FBI quickly took to social media to release a statement about the department\u2019s involvement after t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/09\/10\/charlie-kirk-shot-during-college-presentation-university-releases-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he conservative commentator was shot at<\/a> at an event in Utah. <\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2141049\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are closely monitoring reports of the tragic shooting involving Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University,\u201d he wrote on his official <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FBIDirectorKash\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/x.com\/FBIDirectorKash&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\/X<\/a> account. \u201cOur thoughts are with Charlie, his loved ones, and everyone affected. Agents will be on the scene quickly and the FBI stands in full support of the ongoing response and investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s official account also reposted his statement. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Charlie Kirk<\/strong> was speaking at Utah Valley University for an event and was only about 20 minutes into his appearance when shots were fired. <\/p>\n<p>A suspect has already reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/09\/10\/charlie-kirk-shooting-suspect-is-now-in-custody-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">been taken into custody<\/a> in connection with the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>This story is still developing.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/09\/10\/fbi-director-kash-patel-says-they-are-closely-monitoring-after-conservative-commentator-charlie-kirk-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kash Patel is speaking out following the tragic shooting of Charlie Kirk. The 45-year-old Director of the FBI quickly took to social media to release a statement about the department\u2019s involvement after the conservative commentator was shot at at an event in Utah. Keep reading to find out more\u2026 \u201cWe are closely monitoring reports of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-192217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}