Diplomat Blames Attorney General Mayes For Charlie Kirk Assassination

September 11, 2025 ADI News Services
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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes

President Donald Trump’s special missions envoy, Richard Grenell, said Attorney General Kris Mayes was partly to blame for the political climate that prompted Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Kirk, Turning Point USA founder and CEO, was assassinated on Wednesday by an at-large, unknown shooter while speaking at Utah Valley University.

Mayes claimed she opposed all forms of political violence in a social media statement. Grenell rejected her claims; he accused Mayes of giving “aid and comfort” to “deadly violence” like the assassination of Kirk through her past actions.

“You are the poster child for cheating, stealing, and using the legal system to go after your political opponents,” said Grenell.

Friday morning, Trump announced he would be awarding Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously. Vice President J.D. Vance and second lady Usha Vance accompanied Kirk’s remains on an Air Force Two flight from Utah to Kirk’s hometown of Phoenix, Arizona.

The FBI is offering a $100,000 reward for the identity of the shooter.

Like Grenell, the campaign page for Congressman Abe Hamadeh denounced Mayes. The campaign stated that Mayes bore some responsibility for the recent tragedy with her targeting of Kirk and his affiliates.

“Kris Mayes delegated the duties of her illegitimate office to far-left activists with the explicit purpose of helping her send innocent conservatives to prison,” said the group. “She has as much right to weigh in on the current political temperature as she does to be Arizona’s Attorney General. Which is to say, none at all.”

Federal agents released surveillance photos of a person of interest in Kirk’s assassination, potentially the suspected shooter.

According to officials, the shooter arrived near campus university just before noon on Wednesday. Just before the shooting, bystander video captured an individual believed to either be the shooter or affiliated with the shooting on the rooftop of the Losee Center, a building several hundred feet away from where Kirk was speaking. After the single shot that took Kirk’s life rang out around 12:20 pm, other videos depicted that individual running from the rooftop.

Per a preliminary report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) obtained by political commentator Steven Crowder, engravings on ammunition found with the rifle near the site of the shooting had transgender and anti-fascist messaging.

“The location of the firearm appears to match the suspects route of travel. The spent cartridge was still chambered in addition to three unspent rounds at the top fed magazine. All cartridges have engraved wording on them, expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology. An emergency trace has been submitted an ATF SLC is working leads generated by the trace. The firearm and ammunition have been taken by the FBI for DNA analysis and fingerprint impressions. Upon completion of forensics, the firearm will be disassembled for additional importer information.”

The Utah Department of Public Safety advised in a press conference that the suspected shooter did fire their gun from a rooftop, then fled into a nearby neighborhood.

Late Thursday afternoon, multiple outlets reported that investigators have the name of a person of interest, citing multiple, unnamed sources: two U.S. officials and one law enforcement member. No arrest warrant has been issued.

As of this report, the manhunt continues for Kirk’s killer.

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