Guwahati, Sept. 10 -- Conservative activist Charlie Kirk died after being shot at an event at the Utah Valley University on Wednesday, President Donald Trump informed.

"The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife, Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The shooting comes amid a spike in political violence in the United States. across all parts of the ideological spectrum.

Kirk (31), a staunch supporter of Trump, was delivering a lecture on the campus as part o...