Classes resume at Utah Valley University as students grieve Charlie Kirk’s killing

Orem, Utah – While the great American flag was assassinated where conservative influencer Charlie Kerk was assassinated on the campus of the University of Utah Valley, the students told the Fox News Digital that the campus feels “frightening” and “somber”.

“This is somewhere we go to to enhance our lives, and it may be the place where our lives are ended,” said James Whitney, a UVU student who told Fox News Digital.

According to the suspected shipping documents, Tyler Robinson, investigators found a “wrapped wrapped outlet rifle in a towel” in a tester area on the northeastern end of the campus, but the authorities did not confirm the exact location.

One week after Kirk’s shooting while receiving questions from UVU students, the classrooms on the Orem campus resumed on Wednesday. With students returning to the campus to push their respect for Kirk and return to the class, many still treat what they describe as an “very shock” incident.

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It was told that it was told that it ranged from 5 to 10 feet from Kirk when he was shot, to Fox News Digital while returning to the assassination site for the first time: “No one should be able to say that I have seen shooting at school, not to mention the assassination of one of your greatest gates.”

Kirk, 31, was shot while talking to UVU students last Wednesday, September 10. After a 33 -hour hunt, 22 -year -old Robinson was arrested by Kerk’s assassination. Gray explained the official charges against Robinson during a press conference on Tuesday, which was followed by the first court appearance of the suspect.

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A memorial began in the days that followed the shooting with scattered bouquets and some signs that honored Kirk outside the campus have now filled a full piece of grass outside the campus. Inside the campus, just steps away from the place where Kirk was shot, more greeting has grown day by day when students and local population are officially walking through the annihilation to pay their respect.

Jesse Paul, a UVU student, told Fox News Digital that she had seen her friends and colleagues in the class, including those atheists, to praying in the days after the assassination. UVU hosts the protest on the campus, which is appropriate at the community level on Friday, “to meet in remembering common values, recovery and reaffirmation.”

The American flag is now suspended as conservative influencer Charlie Kerk was shot at the University of Utah on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, as the campus begins to reopen it. (Deirdre Heaven/Fox News Digital)

“Many people like me, who are somewhat afraid to speak, we have passed a little because we believe that his messages were important to hear them,” Paul said of Kirk, and her tears retreated.

“The presence on the campus is difficult for everyone,” said Rider Warner, a UVU student who was on campus when Kirk was shot.

“I think it is especially difficult because some people were chanting, and this really reduces your mood,” he said. “Loss of confidence in this country.”

“I don’t think anyone should be killed by their opinion,” Warner added.

When asked about his opinion on Kirk’s policy, a source of a lot of discussion since last Wednesday, Whitney Fox News Digitter told him that he is trying to stay outside politics because “this usually happens.”

The flowers and honor occupied the conservative influential Charlie Kirk, the campus of Utah Valley University, following his assassination on Wednesday, September 10, 2025. (Deirdre Heaven/Fox News Digital)

He said that he chooses to preserve his political views of himself because political violence “becomes nature”, and when people do not agree, “they try to take it out to everyone.”

Travens, who grew up in the Spanish FORK, which is located about one hour car south of the campus, visited Tuesday to pay his respect, because “to see that this can happen near the house really scary.”

“As Charlie said, silence creates violence,” said Stevens. “I think it is important to address emotions before we deal with dialogue and policies because, in the end, this is what drives things like this – emotions.”

With the opening of the campus for UVU students looking for mental health resources and returning to work, the souvenir has filled the grass outside the campus. (Deirdre Heaven/Fox News Digital)

Miller, who said that Kirk was one of her heroes, said that through this tragedy, “We have to approach God and each other.”

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“There is a reason that we have moved to this point, and there is a reason to continue us forward,” she said.