Charlie Kirk’s assassination while he spoke at the Utah Valley University on September 10 has stunned much of America.

Videos of Kirk being shot and killed after a single bullet has been fired has also circulated on social media.

Authorities noted that at the time two persons of interest were arrested but they do not believe them to be the shooter, later noting they had ‘no current ties’ to the crime and that the shooter is still at large.

The FBI has been providing updates on the Charlie Kirk shooter developments on its Twitter page.

Yesterday (September 11), the FBI released an image of a person of interest and called on the public to notify the agency if they have seen this person or know their identity.

The post read: “We are asking for the public’s help identifying this person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University.

Tributes have flooded in for Kirk following his murder (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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“1-800-CALL-FBI,” the agency added, for anyone with information.”

In a follow up post on the social media page, they added more details about the shooter and his actions after the shot that killed Kirk.

The post read: “The FBI is releasing video of the shooter who murdered Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025. Following the shooting, the individual jumps from a rooftop and runs away from the location.

“Trace evidence collected from the rooftop includes shoe impressions, a forearm imprint, and a palm print. The shooter’s weapon and ammunition were recovered from a wooded area near the university.”

The video showcased the apparent shooter, jumping off a university building and fleeing.

In addition to this, the bureau have also released further images of the ‘person of interest’ they are trying to locate in connection to the shooting.

They have also offered a reward of $100,000 for any information leading to an arrest in the case.

New images of a person of interest have been released (FBI)

Not long before the video and new images were released, the FBI made it clear they believed they have good footage of the alleged shooter.

Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Beau Mason announced on September 11 during a press conference that authorities had ‘good video’ of the shooter.

Mason said authorities were ‘working through some technologies and some ways to identify this individual’, but he assured they would ask for the public’s help if needed.

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The FBI continues to work alongside our law enforcement partners to seek justice in the murder of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025. We are releasing additional photos of a person of interest. Information about this developing investigation can be found

“If we are unsuccessful, we will reach out to you as the media and we will push that publicly to help us identify them,” Mason said. “But we are confident in our abilities right now.”

The FBI has also asked people in the area to check footage from doorbells cameras and submit it to the agency if they recognize anything unusual on it.

The father of JonBenét Ramsey, a six-year-old girl who was murdered 28 years ago, believes new testing will solve the case.

On December 26, 1996, JonBenét was found beaten and sexually assaulted in the basement of her own home in Boulder, Colorado.

Her mom, Patsy Ramsey, had called the police that morning to report her daughter missing from her bedroom. She had also discovered a ransom note, demanding $118,000 for her safe return.

Tragically, the little girl’s body was found hours later in the basement of the family home. She had suffered blunt force trauma and had been strangled with a garrote, which is a type of rope weapon.

Local police initially suspected JonBenét’s parents and even their son, Burke, who was just nine at the time, of being involved in the crime; however, the Ramsey family were all later cleared. And in 2008, an old DNA sample from the scene identified the presence of an ‘unknown male’.

Almost 30 years later, John Ramsey, now 81, has spoken about new testing that could help solve the case.

JonBenét was brutally murdered in her own home after a ransom note was found asking for $118,000 (John Bennett Ramsey)

He appeared at CrimeCon alongside attorney Hal Haddon, who has represented the family for decades.

“I have pressed hard for DNA analysis of the knots in this garrote, which our DNA experts say could be quite promising, because someone had to tie those – and they’re fairly sophisticated,” said Haddon. “Someone had to use their fingers and likely got their DNA in these knots. They’ve never done that [testing], and I questioned them on that every time that we’ve met.

“The handle on this garrote… is wooden, and that wooden handle has never been tested for DNA, even though splinters from that handle were found on and inside the body of JonBenet.”

Haddon went on to call the ransom note left by the killer ‘elaborate’, as he added to Ramsey: “Someone had obviously been in your home or had cased it thoroughly.

“Someone spent an extraordinary amount of time writing a ransom note which quoted extensively from murder movies which were contemporary in the day – movies like Dirty Harry.”

Last year, Ramsey revealed that there had been two breakthroughs in the case, as the family had been pushing for forensic genealogy to be used on DNA taken from the crime scene.

John and Patsy Ramsey in 1996 (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Although Haddon said it would be ‘highly unlikely’ the case could be solved without genealogical testing, Ramsey was more optimistic.

He said: “I believe there’s a 70 per cent chance we get an answer. We may not, but the odds are very high that we can.

“This new technology that’s been employed finding these old killers, old cold cases, is a dramatic improvement over the last testing that was done in our case, which was eight or 10 years ago.”

However, he added that with the prospect of a new investigative team and technology, he was ‘more hopeful than I’ve ever been’.

If you’ve been affected by any of these issues or want to speak to someone in confidence regarding the welfare of a child, the Childhelp USA National Child Abuse Hotline (1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453) operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and receives calls from throughout the United States, Canada, US Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico.

Earlier this week on Friday (September 5) President Trump officially signed off on his 200th executive order to change the name of the Department of Defense back to the name it last held in 1949, the Department of War.

Announcing the change, the POTUS said: “We won World War I, we won World War II, we won everything before that and in between, and then we decided to go woke, and we changed the name to DoD. So, we’re going Department of War.

“I think it’s a much more appropriate name, in light of where the world is right now,” he added. “It sends a message of victory.”

While historians have claimed the name was initially changed after the Second World War to reflect the US‘ position in preventing further conflict, the Trump administration has doubled down that the country is going ‘maximum lethality’ as opposed to what the newly titled War Secretary Pete Hegseth described as ‘tepid legality.’

He signed the order on Friday (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Now, it has emerged that the name change has had an unexpected consequence for actor Tom Hanks.

The 69-year-old Saving Private Ryan actor was due to attend a West Point alumni event in his honor on September 25, during which Hanks was due to receive an award.

The military academy’s president and CEO, retired Army Colonel Mark Bieger, announced the ceremony had been cancelled on the same day Trump made the announcement.

Hanks, who has never served in the military but stands as a strong advocate for veterans, was due to receive the Sylvanus Thayer Award.

The West Point Association of Graduates issues the award to non-alumni who ‘draw wholesome comparison’ to its motto: ‘Duty, honor, country,’ reports Daily Mail.

Hanks was due to receive an award this month (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)

Bieger wrote in the email notifying attendees of the cancelled event: “This decision allows the Academy to continue its focus on its core mission of preparing cadets to lead, fight, and win as officers in the world’s most lethal force, the United States Army.”

The axed ceremony comes as Hanks recently landed himself in hot water for portraying a Trump supporter as a ‘racist redneck’ in a Saturday Night Live skit in February.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration claims the name change is entirely to ‘do with winning.’

“We should have won every war. We could have won every war. But we really chose to be very politically correct or wokey and we just fight forever,” the 79-year-old said on Friday.

“We just didn’t fight to win. We didn’t lose anything, but we didn’t fight to win.”

LADbible Group has contacted West Point and Hank’s representatives for comment.

The Kennedy family have long been considered America’s most prominent political dynasty, and have also had more than their fair share of strange tragedies over the years.

From horrific illnesses to plane crashes, car crashes, assassinations and more, the family have suffered grisly premature deaths that appear straight out of a Final Destination movie, so much so that a theory has emerged over a so-called ‘Kennedy curse.’

Even Ted Kennedy, the youngest of nine children to Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald, and brother of JFK, pondered after a car crash and the strange deaths of four of his siblings by 1969 if ‘some awful curse did actually hang over the Kennedy’s’.

Here are just some of those incidents that could be attributed to the Kennedy ‘curse.’

The Kennedy family photographed in the 1930s (Bachrach/Getty Images)

1941: Rosemary Kennedy

Rose, born in 1918, was thought to have been starved from oxygen at birth and struggled to meet typical developmental milestones as she grew up.

At the age of 23, her father decided to take her for an experimental new procedure, a lobotomy, in 1941, which went terribly wrong.

Rosemary was left permanently incapacitated with the intellectual capabilities of a two-year-old.

Unable to walk and talk, she was institutionalised for most of her life up until she died at the age of 86 in January 2005.

Rosemary Kennedy with her sister, Jean (Getty Images)

1944: Joe Kennedy Jr.

The eldest of the Kennedy brood, Joe had tiptoed into politics when World War Two broke out.

So, he enlisted into the US Naval Reserve in June 1941.

Yet, during a top-secret bombing mission to Europe codenamed Anvil in August 1944, an explosive his jet was carrying detonated prematurely and killed him and his co-pilot instantly.

Joe was just 29 years old when he died, and was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his service.

Joseph P. Kennedy Jr (Getty Images)

1948: Kathleen Kennedy

Kathleen, nicknamed Kick, suffered several tragedies of her own.

While working in the UK, she sparked a romance with Lord William Hartington, whom she married in May 1944 against her father’s wishes.

Her brother, Joe, was the only member of her family to attend the wedding since he was serving in Britain at the time.

Well, we know Joe died just three months after the ceremony, but Kathleen’s husband also died not long after.

Kathleen with her husband William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Hartington was killed by a sniper while in active service in Belgium just four months after tying the knot.

Four years later, Kick then met her own demise in a plane crash in 1948.

She was flying out to Paris to convince her father to approve of her new partner, the 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, whom also perished in the crash.

JFK and his then fiance Jacqueline (Getty Images)

1963: Patrick Kennedy

In August 1963, JFK’s wife Jacqueline Kennedy gave birth to a baby boy whom they baptised and named Patrick.

The infant sadly only lived for 39 hours after being born premature and succumbing to complications of hyaline membrane disease.

JFK and Jacqueline had already suffered a miscarriage and a stillbirth prior to Patrick’s death.

Three months after Patrick, JFK was gunned down in an assassination.

JFK was assassinated in 1963 (Getty Images)

1963: John F. Kennedy

Before becoming 35th President of the United States, JFK suffered chronic health conditions for most of his life, and a life-long back injury from playing football as a child.

While he was medically disqualified from the US Army in 1940, he joined the US Naval Reserve, where he re-injured his back in a patrol torpedo boat accident in 1943, but heroically saved the life of another crewman.

The most famous of the Kennedy tragedies unfolded on 22 November, 1963, when the then POTUS was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 46.

RFK and Ethel Kennedy with their children (Getty Images)

1968: Robert F. Kennedy

The seventh child of the Kennedy’s, Robert, also entered the political ring in the 1960s, serving as attorney general between 1961 and 1964 and later as US senator for New York.

RFK was emerging as a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nominee in 1968, hoping to follow in his brother’s footsteps.

Horrifically, not long after winning the California primary in June that year, he was also assassinated.

Ted received a two-month suspended jail sentence for the incident (Art Zelin/Getty Images)

1969: Ted Kennedy

Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy likewise served in politics as a member of the senate from 1962 up until his death in 2009.

While he died of a brain tumor at the age of 77, two weeks after the death of his sister Eunice, the senator became embroiled in a tragedy where he lived to tell the tale.

Late one evening in July 1969, Ted left a party on Chappaquiddick Island to take a party-goer, Mary Jo Kopechne, back to land.

While driving, Ted reportedly lost control of the car and the pair plummeted into the water below.

Ted escaped and swam to shore, only reporting the incident to the cops at 10am the next morning, by which point the 28-year-old’s body had been found.

Ted received a two-month suspended jail for leaving the scene of an accident and was suspended from driving for 16 months.

The so-called Chappaquiddick Incident tarnished his image and his dream of ever becoming president.

Ted Kennedy Jr. had his leg amputated as a child (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights)

1973: Ted Kennedy Jr.

Ted’s son, aptly called Edward Kennedy Jr., was born in 1961.

Medics later determined Ted Jr. suffered from osteosarcome, a form of bone cancer, in his right leg at the age of 12.

After several rounds of failed chemotherapy, doctors decided to surgically amputate his leg in 1973.

Though fortunately still alive today, working as an attorney in New York City, it appears the ‘Kennedy curse’ has still followed the 63-year-old for most of his life.

Ted Jr., narrowly missed being aboard Air Florida Flight 90 by 10 minutes which crashed into the Potomac River and killed 74 people.

David Kennedy died of a drugs overdose in 1984 (Getty Images)

1984: David Kennedy

RFK’s fourth son, David, born in 1955, similarly dodged death when he almost drowned.

His father jumped in and saved his life. The next day, David watched his father’s assassination live on TV.

It is reported David turned to drugs to help him cope with the trauma while a car accident in 1973 left him addicted to opiods.

In April 1984, he died of an overdose from a combination of cocaine and prescription meds.

JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette died in a plane crash (Justin Ide/Newsmakers)

1999: John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.

On his third birthday, JFK Jr., also known as John-John, participated in the funeral procession of his father.

As an adult, he worked for almost four years as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, and went on to work as a journalist and founder of politics-lifestyle magazine, George.

After several high profile relationships with some of Hollywood’s famous faces, John-John married Carolyn Bessette in 1996.

Although the death of his cousin in a skiing accident put him off for a few months, JFK Jr., was a keen pilot and decided to jet off with his wife and sister-in-law on July 16, 1999, to attend another cousin’s wedding.

The jet failed to arrive and days later, the wreckage of his plane were found strewn across the seabed.

All three bodies were recovered.