FROM DAILY MAIL: The Utah Valley University student who exchanged words with Charlie Kirk just seconds before the conservative activist was shot and killed has broken his silence.
Hunter Kozak called the assassination ‘a tragedy’ and urged those celebrating Kirk’s death to ‘stay peaceful.’
‘It’s hard to grapple with,’ said Kozak in an emotional Instagram video posted on Thursday.
Kirk was speaking at a debate on Wednesday at Utah Valley University when authorities said a sniper fired from a distant rooftop.
Kozak, a mathematics student at UVU, was the final audience member to speak during the Q&A portion of Kirk’s campus event when the Turning Point USA founder was fatally shot.
Kozak, the second participant in the Q & A session that day, was challenging Kirk about his statements on transgender mass shooters. Kirk was shot before he was able to fully debate with Kozak on the subject.
Kozak is urging restraint and mourning even as some of his fellow progressives celebrate a heinous murder.
“As much as I disagree with Charlie Kirk, I’m on the record for how much I disagree with Charlie Kirk,” he said. “But like… man, dude, he is still a human being. Have we forgotten that?”
WATCH:
🚨 WATCH: Liberal student Hunter Kozak was mid-debate with Charlie Kirk, insisting how “PEACEFUL” the left is—when Kirk was assassinated right then and there!
The ultimate irony exposed. Has Hunter seen all the “Peaceful” comments from the left since Charlie died? pic.twitter.com/Cvwug2mmVp
— Alec Lace (@AlecLace) September 12, 2025
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