Manhunt Underway After Charlie Kirk Assassination

FBI director Kash Patel said on X earlier Wednesday that the "subject for the horrific shooting today that took the life of Charlie Kirk is now in custody," before saying in a later post that "the subject has been released."

Utah DPS commissioner Beau Mason said at a Wednesday afternoon briefing that a suspect was at large and that one person had been released after questioning. The "only information we have on the suspect, the possible shooter, is taken from closed-circuit TV here on campus," he said.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) said at the briefing that law enforcement officials had a "person of interest in custody," who was being interviewed in connection with the campus shooting.

"The investigation is ongoing, but I want to make it crystal clear right now to whoever did this, we will find you, we will try you, and we will hold you accountable to the furthest extent of the law," he added. "And I just want to remind people that we still have the death penalty here in the state."