(NewsNation) — The high-velocity bullet that claimed the life of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10 miraculously did not exit the conservative activist and harm others at the crowded event where Kirk was assassinated, the executive producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show” said Saturday.
Kirk was fatally wounded when a sniper fired a single round from 200 yards away on the campus of Utah Valley University and struck him in the neck.
Andrew Kolvet, who produced Kirk’s popular talk show, suggested the bullet’s failure to injure or kill others who were behind Kirk is cause for celebration. He said the surgeon who tried to save Kirk at the hospital expressed surprise the bullet went no farther but also noted the “density” of the patient’s body.
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The bullet “should have just gone through and through. It likely would have killed those standing behind him too,” Kolvet said the physician told him on Saturday. The anecdote was shared on the social media platform X.
The coroner found the bullet “just beneath the skin,” said Kolvet, who also serves as spokesman for Kirk’s Turning Point USA.
“Even in death, Charlie managed to save the lives of those around him. Remarkable. Miraculous,” he said.
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Kolvet said he had permission to share the information Saturday, the eve of Kirk’s memorial service in Phoenix. He said he was responding to “online chatter” about the lack of an exit wound.
Police recovered the presumed murder weapon, a high-powered, bolt-action rifle, after the gunman jumped from a roof on the UVU campus and fled through a wooded area.
A 22-year-old suspect, Tyler Robinson, was arrested 33 hours after the shooting and has been charged with aggravated murder. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has called the killing a political assassination and says Robinson had become radicalized.
In response to Kolvet’s statement Saturday, NewsNation reached out to the hospital that received Kirk before he was pronounced.
