Charlie Kirk’s family has indicated it plans to bring legal action against several Utah authorities following the conservative activist’s assassination last year.

In a newly filed notice of claim, the family alleges a “series of stunning failures and reckless decisions” preceded Kirk’s death at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025.

The filing was made only days after the first anniversary of Kirk’s death, an event that sent shockwaves through conservative circles and far beyond.

Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, was fatally shot during an outdoor campus gathering on the organization’s American Comeback Tour. He had been answering questions from a crowd of roughly 3,000 attendees when he was killed.

Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing Kirk, remains in custody awaiting a murder trial and could face the death penalty if convicted.

According to the family’s claim, Utah Valley University did not carry out a meaningful security risk assessment before the event. The document specifically alleges that officials failed to examine nearby rooftops overlooking the venue, including the location from which Robinson is accused of firing.

The family also contends that UVU Police had no written event-security plan in place and did not conduct security briefings ahead of the appearance.

“Through a series of stunning failures and reckless decisions, the UVU Parties created a foreseeable danger to Charlie,” the notice obtained by the Daily Mail states.

While Kirk’s relatives have not yet put a dollar figure on the damages they may seek from Utah authorities, the notice says the potential financial losses are “substantial.”

‘Those decisions ultimately rendered Mr. Kirk helpless to the rooftop shooter in an assassination that could have been avoided had the UVU Parties only taken reasonable steps to plan and oversee a safe event, steps outlined below that have been standard practice for other universities hosting controversial speakers,’ the notice read.

The family mentioned that the authorities in Orem, Utah, ought to have been more thoughtful with planning the event, considering Trump’s assassination attempt from a rooftop shooter just months earlier in Butler, Pennsylvania.  

‘The risk of a rooftop shooter should have been especially top-of-mind given the attempted assassination of President Trump, Charlie Kirk’s close friend and political ally, by a rooftop shooter the previous year,’ the notice stated. 

Kirk’s family notice names State of Utah, Utah Valley University (UVU), the Utah Valley University Police Department, campus police chief Jeffrey Long, Astrid Tuminez, who was UVU’s president at the time of the assassination, and ‘other state actors.’

Kirk’s family criticized UVU Police in the notice for only deploying six campus police officers for the event, representing only 25 percent of the UVU police force despite over 3,000 attendees being at the event. 

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Following Kirk’s assassination, prosecutors released security footage showing the shooter running across a rooftop to a ‘sniper’s nest’ before taking the fatal shot. 

Kirk’s family accused UVU authorities of failing to monitor CCTV footage in real-time, which they say would have allowed them to see the shooter preparing, and ‘Kirk’s tragic death could have been avoided.’ 

The filing comes days after the one-year anniversary of Kirk’s assassination, which was marked across the nation by commemoration events – including one hosted by Kirk’s Turning Point USA at the site he was killed at the UVU campus.

Ahead of the commemoration event, law enforcement was seen scouting the rooftops around the area, near to where Robinson allegedly opened fire from and where Kirk’s family now say they failed to search one year ago. 

Kirk’s widow Erika took over as CEO of Turning Point USA following her husband’s assassination, however she did not attend the organization’s anniversary tribute event. 

Instead, Erika shared a poignant message to social media, saying she has endured the ‘unimaginable’ since Charlie was killed.

She shared a picture of herself walking with their two young children, as she wrote: ‘To every person who has loved us, prayed for us, and carried our children and me before the Lord, not only today, but every day this past year… From the deepest place in my heart, thank you.

‘God, in his mercy, has used so many of you to steady us through the unimaginable. I will never have the words to adequately express what your love and prayers have meant to our family.

‘My Charlie… our babies and myself love you with everything we have.

‘We will carry you with us in our hearts forever and we thank God for every day He gave us with you.

‘Thank you for being the love of my life.’

Erika also marked the day with a post from her wedding day to the conservative activist, showing them holding hands at the altar with the caption: ‘… until Heaven.’

A billionaire hospital executive, his daughter and another senior leader say they were singled out in what they describe as an alarming nurses union campaign in their upscale Los Angeles community. Fliers distributed throughout the neighborhood allegedly urged people to “track them down” and claimed they “can’t hide.”

Dr. Prem Reddy, the founder, chairman and CEO of Prime Healthcare, alleges in a new lawsuit that the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United went beyond protected labor activism by bringing their campaign to the homes and families of company executives in affluent Brentwood.

According to the complaint, union supporters circulated materials containing aerial images of the executives’ residences, home square-footage information and other details about their private properties. The lawsuit also alleges that banners and placards were placed on utility poles, streetlights, trees and privately owned cars.

The alleged campaign left relatives worried about their personal safety, the filing says. It claims younger children were kept indoors and prevented from playing outside in their own backyard because of those concerns.

Prime Healthcare is asking the court to issue a temporary restraining order, followed by preliminary and permanent injunctions, against the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United.

The legal action arrives less than two years after the Dec. 4, 2024, killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Midtown Manhattan street, a case that reverberated across the healthcare business.

Luigi Mangione later pleaded guilty to stalking and murdering Thompson and is set to be sentenced on Dec. 18.

Prime Healthcare ranks among the largest health systems in the United States, running 51 hospitals in 14 states and employing 60,000 workers and affiliated physicians.

The healthcare company generates roughly $7.4 billion in annual revenue.

The lawsuit says the alleged intimidation effort began Sept. 3, when union activists entered the Brentwood area where members of the Reddy family and other Prime Healthcare executives reside.

Reddy himself does not live in Brentwood, the complaint states, but is an active member of the community through family members who live there, including his daughter and grandchildren.

Fliers headlined ‘Where in the World is Dr. Reddy?’ allegedly urged members of the public to ‘track down’ the billionaire healthcare boss,

The materials included images of at least three executives’ homes and details including aerial photographs, square footage and descriptions of their properties, according to the complaint.

Among those allegedly targeted was Reddy’s daughter Sunitha Reddy, Prime’s chief revenue officer and vice president of operations, as well as company president and chief medical officer Dr. Sunny Bhatia.

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Prime claims it took hours to remove banners and clean up litter left around the neighborhood.

The lawsuit says the material was distressing because it appeared near executives’ homes and a nearby school, where children witnessed the alleged campaign.

‘Sunitha Reddy’s home is located near a school. Younger children were thereafter kept inside and could not use their own private yard to play out of concern for their safety,’ the complaint says.

Prime alleges the union’s aim was ‘to inflict stress on the families of Prime Healthcare executives’ to gain leverage in labor negotiations with its hospitals.

The company claims it sent the union a cease-and-desist letter on Sept. 9 demanding that the residential targeting stop.

But according to the complaint, a union attorney contacted Prime the following day and allegedly suggested the targeting of executives’ homes could end if Reddy agreed to meet with the union – conduct Prime’s lawyers claim was ‘tantamount to economic extortion.’

Prime also claims it sought help from the LAPD on Sept. 9 and 10 but received no response, and separately reported the issue to the Los Angeles City Council, again without receiving a response.

The dispute escalated further after Bryant Aguilar, a California Nurses Association representative who works at Prime-owned Centinela Hospital, allegedly sent a message calling on nurses to gather in the neighborhood for a Sept. 11 rally.

‘We will be joining together in Dr. Reddy’s neighborhood and rally near his residence,’ the message said, according to the lawsuit.

The message called on Centinela nurses to participate, and Prime said the hospital employs hundreds of nurses, raising fears that a large crowd could assemble outside executives’ homes.

Prime is asking a judge to bar the unions from alleged harassment and intimidation around executives’ homes and families, including targeted picketing within 300 feet of their homes and unpermitted banners or signs.

The company is also seeking nominal and punitive damages.

The California Nurses Association was contacted for comment.

The union posted a video of members protesting Monday on X with the caption: ‘Nurses across the country are rising up systemwide against Prime Healthcare because Prime endangers patients and nurses by putting profits above all else.’

Newly disclosed federal records suggest Thomas Crooks, who carried out the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, appeared to be entering what a former FBI agent described as an “almost manic state” in the period leading up to the rally attack.

The documents, which were provided to the Senate and first detailed by the New York Post, outline concerns raised by people in Crooks’ orbit during the weeks before the shooting. The attack left one person dead and two others seriously wounded.

Jonathan Gilliam, a former FBI special agent, told News Media that the FBI material sent to lawmakers contained a series of apparent warning signs involving Crooks.

“These are definitely examples of somebody who is mentally not stable and also somebody who was spiraling into almost a manic or delusional state,” Gilliam said. “When you combine somebody who is delusional, somebody who’s hearing voices and is having almost a manic type of episode… with potential influence either by persons that they’re around or things that they see online… it’s very possible that that is the large part of this equation that we just have not seen.”

An unclassified FBI memo says Crooks was “never into explosives,” but it describes an encounter in which someone questioned him about a gallon-sized jug. Crooks reportedly said the container was used to clean the bed of his 3D printer.

The person, whose identity was withheld in the released documents, said they were skeptical of that explanation because Crooks’ “ears would flame red when he lied.” The records do not specify when the conversation about the jug occurred.

The same unidentified person recalled that Crooks became increasingly agitated as he grew older and frequently spoke to himself.

“After community college he would talk to himself more and more, moving his hands and speaking to himself…sometimes Thomas would stay up dancing all night,” the individual said, adding that he appeared to possess “endless energy.”

The individual, who appeared to be close with Crooks, said that when confronted about the habit, Crooks would “admit to talking to himself” but denied hearing voices in his head.

“Sometimes he would stay up all night, always endless energy,” an FBI notepad read.

The individual who appeared close with Crooks described his nighttime behavior to the FBI.

“THOMAS would be in [redacted] at night and it sounded like he was dancing and whispering each night. About two to three times each week, he would pace through [redacted] When [redacted] confronted THOMAS about the pacing, THOMAS would say that he was bored and trying to entertain himself. [redacted] worked [redacted] and the pacing was [redacted] distracting [redacted],” the FBI memo stated.

One of Crooks’ coworkers told law enforcement that in the weeks before the attack, he “opened up a little more” and became more “excited about going to school.”

Crooks was planning to attend Robert Morris University to study mechanical engineering and graduated with an associate degree in engineering science from the Community College of Allegheny County.

In the months before the shooting, Crooks also enrolled in the following courses at the Keystone Shooting Center:

• Basic Carbine Course, enrolled April 30, 2024, scheduled for May 25, 2024 — $139.99
• Basic Handgun Course, enrolled June 7, 2024, scheduled for June 13, 2024 — $139.99
• Intermediate Handgun Course, enrolled June 1, 2024, scheduled for June 22, 2024 — $149.99

Around the time Crooks was taking these firearm courses, he was spotted with two people at Keystone Armory in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, on May 25, 2024, where be bought 20 rounds of Red Army 7.62x54R for $19.07.

“The individual believed to be Crooks was accompanied by a white male believed to be around his mid 30’s and another older white male with a gray beard, potentially one of the individual’s father. The individual believed to be Crooks and the two other males can be seen wandering throughout the firearms store looking at various firearms,” the FBI document stated.

The documents also make reference to a redacted individual, believed to be Crooks, “purchased ammo online going site to site until he found one that would sell to him.”

FBI Director Kash Patel testified on Tuesday at a Senate Oversight Committee hearing that there’s no evidence that Crooks was connected with anyone else.

“We found no evidence that that individual was literally even speaking to any other human being other than his parents, who he resided with,” Patel testified.

The documents show the FBI contacted at least one foreign government during its investigation into the assassination attempt, but offer no further detail on why.

A devout Catholic couple in Massachusetts is pleading to regain custody of their teenage daughter, alleging that her school encouraged her to transition without their knowledge.

Joseph and Arlene Kutzko say they have not seen or spoken with their daughter Sophie, now 17, since 2024. The couple told Fox News reporter Lauren Green that the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families removed Sophie from their home because they would not recognize her as a boy, citing their religious beliefs.

Speaking on Green’s Lighthouse Faith podcast, the Kutzkos alleged that employees at Algonquin Regional High School introduced Sophie to gender-related ideology behind their backs.

Joseph Kutzko said the dispute began after administrators and counselors in the Public Schools of Northborough and Southborough allegedly exposed Sophie to “LGBTQ teachings and topics” that he said conflicted with the family’s Catholic faith.

By late November 2024, when Sophie was 15, her father said she had become increasingly distant from the rest of the family.

Sophie also began remaining at school after hours for what her parents believed was extra math assistance. The couple later claimed those sessions involved counseling connected to gender transition.

The parents became visibly emotional while discussing their daughter and said they did not understand what was happening until the school contacted state child welfare authorities and Sophie was removed from their care.

“We didn’t find out until after Sophie was removed,” Joseph said. “It came on like a tornado.”

Vernadette Broyles, the couple’s lawyer who works with the Child and Parental Rights Campaign, said that the school participated in ‘secret transitioning’ after learning that ‘Sophie had started to reject her sex.’ 

‘The school began to use male pronouns and non-binary pronouns to refer to her by a male name in these secret counseling sessions that we suspect to affirm this rejection of her sex. And all of this was happening completely secret to the parents,’ Broyles told Green. 

The couple is now fighting to keep Sophie from receiving high-dose testosterone – something that does not qualify as ‘ordinary’ medical care and needs consent from parents or permission from the court, Broyles argued. 

She said that they have since filed a motion to block this from happening.  

‘We are actively fighting in court to keep them from really poisoning this young lady with testosterone. 

‘We are actively fighting because DCF wants to proceed with this,’ their lawyer continued. 

DCF has also gone on to accuse the mother and father of alleged abuse against their daughter, they explained. 

Joseph was previously arrested over these allegations, but according to Broyles, the claims of physical abuse ended up being ‘untrue’ and ‘unsupported.’ 

‘The only thing that’s left is an allegation of neglect that has never been described. We do not even know the specific reasons for this unclear neglect charge against them,’ she said, adding that they believe the charge stems from Joseph and Arlene refusing Sophie’s transition. 

More than anything, they want their daughter to come back and live with them again, but they can’t get in touch with her. 

‘I even begged them just to hug her or kiss her. They said they can’t; they will not allow it,’ an emotional Arlene said. 

Joseph added: ‘The most important thing is to bring her back to our family, but a shorter-term goal is to prevent them from giving her testosterone … We’re begging the state, “Please, do not give our daughter testosterone”.’ 

It is unclear where Sophie resides currently. 

When contacted by the Daily Mail for comment, the Public Schools of Northborough and Southborough said that it ‘aggressively and unequivocally’ denies the claims made by the Kutzkos. 

‘We are aware of the claims being circulated by two individuals whose child formerly attended one of our schools in 2023,’ Superintendent Gregory L. Martineau said. 

‘The district unequivocally denies the claims made about the school district in a recent national media podcast as not merely baseless but grossly insensitive, intrusive and dangerous toward the child who was named in the media report. 

‘Even a cursory glance at the state mandatory reporting guidelines for all school employees should cast wide doubt on the claims made in the national podcast as having absolutely no basis in reality.’ 

The Daily Mail contacted the Kutzkos, Algonquin Regional High School, Broyles, and DCF for comment. 

Lily Rabe embraces drama and the unexpected, whether she is choosing an outfit or stepping into a new role. “I don’t ever like to stay in a comfort zone,” she tells Alexa. “That’s what keeps it all exciting.”

For red-carpet appearances and special events, the actor turns to an eclectic group of designers. “Rodarte. Erdem — a total fave,” she says during a one-on-one interview in New York City. “I love Honor. Bora Aksu. Oh, and Bode.”

Her off-duty wardrobe has a clear favorite, too: “I definitely have a Mayle obsession for my personal life.”

At 44, Rabe has built a career moving fluidly between theater and film, as well as classic works and contemporary material. “I have a sort of insatiable appetite for work,” she says. “Right now, I’d say I do feel very sated.”

There is good reason for that sense of fulfillment. Rabe is in the midst of a major theater season, having wrapped her run opposite Raúl Esparza in “The Winter’s Tale” on Aug. 23. The production marked her fifth appearance in the Public Theater’s free Shakespeare in the Park series.

Rabe returns to Broadway on Sept. 29 at the Hudson Theatre in “Other Desert Cities,” which officially opens Oct. 18. She plays Brooke, a troubled writer whose memoir brings a wealthy family’s deeply buried history to the surface. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Ed Harris play her parents, while Allison Janney stars as her aunt and Joe Keery as her brother.

That lineup of celebrated actors has made director John Benjamin Hickey’s new staging of Jon Robin Baitz’s 2011 play a Mohave hot ticket.

Rabe joined the cast for its first read-through on Aug. 25, though an earlier photo shoot with her new co-stars had already left a lasting impression. “I’m in love with all of them,” Rabe says.

While Rabe has previously worked with Harris, the revival is her first acting collaboration with the rest of the ensemble. She did share the Tony Awards stage with Louis-Dreyfus in June, when the pair presented the Best Play honors. Louis-Dreyfus is an 11-time Emmy winner.

“I’ll watch her in anything. I wish she were our president,” Rabe says, referring to Louis-Dreyfus’ politically sharp role in “Veep.” “Although I’m glad she’s not, because I wouldn’t be able to do this play with her.”

Then again, Rabe, along with her two brothers, knows all about real-life remarkable relatives. She’s the daughter of the late Oscar-nominated actress Jill Clayburgh (“An Unmarried Woman,” “Starting Over”), who died in November 2010, and the 86-year-old Tony-winning playwright David Rabe (“Sticks and Bones”). 

Creativity is in her DNA. “My dad is a really smart guy,” says Rabe. “He did not have a fancy upbringing at all. But he had a love of language and determination.” 

And so does she. Her mom’s legacy? Rabe pauses, as if flashing back to younger days in New York City, where she was born, before moving to Westchester and then the Connecticut countryside.

“She was such an incredible mother,” says Rabe. “She was so curious. She was always leaning in and leaning forward. She had no regrets.”

What her mother did have was a striking sense of style. “She had great clothes, and she looked beautiful in them,” says Rabe. “I remember running around in a costume from a Bertolucci movie. I always loved dressing up.”

Rabe’s grown-up passion for fashion runs deep. During an Alexa photo shoot at the historic 1850s Captain Barnes mansion on Staten Island, the sight of clothes by Prada, Chloé, Dior and others turned her into a kid in a couture store. 

“We all felt like we were in New Orleans,” she says, adding that the experience was “singular.” 

She feels that way about NYC. After 12 years of either being based in Los Angeles or bicoastal, Rabe is back in Manhattan full time with longtime partner and frequent co-star Hamish Linklater (“Widow’s Bay,” “Midnight Mass”) and their four kids — ages 4, 6, 9 and 19.

“It’s my favorite city in the world,” she says. “I’m close to the theater again, whether that means doing plays or going to see them.” 

She didn’t expect to be away from the stage so long. It’s been 11 years since Rabe’s last star turn at the Delacorte Theater. Her last Broadway show, “Seminar,” ended its run 14 years ago. At the opening night celebration for “The Winter’s Tale,” Linklater slipped Rabe a note that spoke volumes about her return to the stage and NYC: “Happy homecoming.”  

She met him through her mom in 2006, when he and Clayburgh acted in an off-Broadway play. Flash forward two decades: they’re a family of six. “We love parenting together,” Rabe adds, even if they are in “a constant state of doing a circus juggle. We’re super scrappy about it.” 

With their three young kids and a college student from his previous relationship, that’s required. “We’re not parents who don’t say no,” she says, “but we don’t have hard-and-fast rules.”

The couple got close 16 years ago, a breakout time for Rabe. While studying theater at Northwestern University, she’d made her screen and stage debuts in 2001 and 2002, respectively, alongside her mom. She notched three roles between 2005 and 2009 on Broadway, including her debut as the shy Annelle in “Steel Magnolias.”

Then, in 2010, director Daniel Sullivan cast her as Portia opposite Al Pacino in “The Merchant of Venice.” Linklater played her love interest. The show earned strong reviews in Central Park, transferred to Broadway, earned her a Best Actress Tony nomination and helped open doors wider to stage and screen roles.  

Since then, TV and film work has kept her busy — and in good company — alongside Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates and others in Ryan Murphy’s spooky anthology series, “American Horror Story.” A sampling of Rabe’s characters includes a few ghosts, a witch and famous aviator Amelia Earhart.

“It was a tremendous gift in my life,” Rabe says. “The thing that I loved most about it is that it was like being in a repertory company.” 

Her newest film is “Capsized,” a comedy drama with Rhys Ifans about a dysfunctional family. 

Rabe’s screen work isn’t just in front of the camera. In 2023, she co-directed “Downtown Owl,” a comedy set in a fictional small town in North Dakota. Harris played a local resident, and Rabe portrayed a teacher who’s new to the neighborhood.

“Ed can do anything,” she says. “I feel something very familial with him.”

That plays out in “Other Desert Cities,” a dramedy that goes inside the lives of the politically conservative Wyeths of Palm Springs, Calif. It’s a story stacked with complexity, curveballs and whip-smart language. She appreciates its take on how our nearest and dearest can be the hardest puzzles to crack.

“Often the greatest mysteries of our life are from what’s closest to us — and that’s our families,” says Rabe. “I find that to be a harrowing idea. And compelling. And exhilarating.” 

A week into rehearsals, Rabe’s sense of connection has grown deeper with her castmates, she says in a follow-up chat. “I feel it with every single one of them in ways I can’t explain. You don’t really want to explain it. You just feel it.”

On location: Our cover shoot took place at Staten Island’s Captain Barnes, a landmarked 1850s mansion built for oysterman Stephen D. Barnes and his wife, Judith Van Pelt. One of the last survivors of Staten Island’s Captains’ Row, its architecture blends Italianate and Gothic Revival traditions with Moorish flair. “Over its many lives, the house has been used or remembered as a sailors’ boarding house, speakeasy, cabaret and gathering place for artists,” says owner Biagio Pergolizzi, who is restoring the house with his wife, Giovanna. “Today, while it remains our family home, we occasionally open its doors for film, photography, music, celebrations and other creative endeavors. The people who enter become part of its continuing story.” CaptainBarnes.com

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The family of Charlie Kirk has submitted a notice of claim, the formal step that can precede a lawsuit, against Utah Valley University, the state of Utah and several people connected to campus administration and security planning. The filing alleges that lapses by those parties contributed to the wrongful death of the Turning Point USA founder.

“The risk of a rooftop shooter should have been especially top-of-mind given the attempted assassination of President Trump, Charlie Kirk’s close friend and political ally, by a rooftop shooter the previous year,” the filing states. The Sept. 9 document was signed by attorneys Loren Washburn, Brett Parkinson and Clifford Parkinson, who represent the Kirk family.

Among the claims outlined in the notice is an alleged conversation between Turning Point USA staff and UVU Police Chief Jeffrey Long. According to the filing, organizers said students had told them that the roof of the Sorenson Center was accessible. The building was described as “pretty close” to Kirk’s scheduled speaking location and sits directly west of the Losee Center, the building from which authorities say the fatal shot was fired.

“If this is true, it would be nice to either have it controlled access or allow one of my guys to be there as well,” a TPUSA representative allegedly wrote to the police chief, according to the claim. “If possible.”

Long allegedly responded: “I got you covered.”

Kirk, 31 and the father of two children, was killed in a campus courtyard on Sept. 10, 2025. Authorities have said a lone shooter positioned himself on the rooftop of the Losee Center, across the open area from the event. Tyler Robinson, 23, the man accused in the shooting, entered a not-guilty plea through his attorneys during an arraignment held nearly a year later.

“His murder was entirely preventable and, in fact, would not have happened had the State of Utah and UVU followed through on their stated security promises, which included protecting the rooftops surrounding the quad where Charlie was speaking,” said Brett Parkinson, an attorney for the Kirk family. “Those failures not only robbed Charlie Kirk of his life, but also robbed his family of their husband, father, son, and brother, with impacts that will compound for the rest of their lives.”

The prospective plaintiffs in the filing are Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, and their two juvenile children. It also acknowledges potential claims from his parents, Robert and Kathryn. The filing does not specify monetary damages. In addition to the wrongful death claim, it also raises a claim of “state-created danger” under the U.S. Constitution.

Kirk, who built TPUSA into the country’s largest conservative campus and youth-oriented activist organization in the country, also spoke at the Republican National Conventions in 2016, 2020 and 2024. He had become a personal friend of the president’s as well as other prominent figures, including leading Utah politicians, the notice continues.

As a result, he had detractors, faced death threats, and publicly spoke about that before his assassination.

“You should not have to walk around with security for your entire family and for myself just because you support a politician or political candidate or certain values,” he said at an event in May 2025.

“We get death threats,” he continued. “People want to murder us.”

Political violence was on the rise as Kirk geared up for TPUSA’s 2025 campus speaking events, titled, “The American Comeback Tour.” The filing references the numerous attempts on Trump’s life, the home invasion hammer attack on California Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, and the murders of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark.

“Tragically, the UVU Parties failed to rise to the occasion,” the filing alleges. “Through a series of stunning failures and reckless decisions, the UVU Parties created a foreseeable danger to Charlie.”

The allegations include a failure to perform a meaningful risk assessment or understand the significance of Kirk’s visit to the UVU campus. Campus police allegedly did not have a written security plan or hold a security briefing in advance.

The second was “walking [Kirk] into a fishbowl” — surrounded on all sides by tall buildings or other elevated positions. “The UVU Parties could have declined to approve the Tour event in the outdoor quad location, or could have moved the venue indoors or to a more secure location, as it had done for controversial speakers in the past,” according to the filing. The school also failed to dedicate additional resources for the outdoor venue despite the allegedly greater risk.

There were only six campus police officers assigned to the event, while Kirk’s appearance attracted roughly 3,000 spectators, according to the filing.

“On information and belief, [UVU Campus Police] Chief Jeffrey Long requested approval from then-UVU President, Astrid Tuminez, to allocate more than the six officers — which represented only 25% of the UVU police force — but his request was denied,” the filing continues.

After the denial, campus police did not seek additional resources from neighboring departments, such as the Orem or Provo police departments, according to the filing.

“The UVU Parties’ planning was so deficient that when Mr. Kirk was shot first responders were not available and Mr. Kirk was transported to Timpanogos Regional Hospital in a private vehicle, not an ambulance,” the notice continues.

The school and its leaders also had “exclusive power” that TPUSA and Kirk’s security team did not have, such as authority to create a security perimeter, use physical barriers, deploy metal detectors or use other “common sense safety measures like those utilized at sporting events on campus.”

Although the campus had a security camera system, footage was not monitored in real time, according to the filing — and there were no drones to monitor rooftops or any other part of the “sprawling outdoor event.”

“After-the-fact review of the footage at the Preliminary Hearing in the criminal prosecution of the alleged shooter Tyler Robinson showed the shooter running across the roof of the Losee Building to a ‘sniper’s nest,'” attorneys for the Kirk family wrote. “If such footage had been monitored in real-time, Kirk’s tragic death could have been avoided.”

Despite warnings to the police chief about rooftop access in the area, the Losee Center rooftop was not secured. This, according to the filing, happened despite the fact that students were known to frequent the rooftop and people often found discarded “beer bottles and other trash” or paraphernalia there.

Together, all of the alleged failures placed Kirk’s life in danger, according to the filing.

“He was legally entitled to believe that when the UVU Parties approved the Tour event to be held on campus on September 10, that the UVU Parties would only hold the event in a venue and with associated security measures that made the event safe for him to attend and participate in,” the notice reads. “Instead, Mr. Kirk was exposed to the danger of a rooftop shooter that took his life.”