Tension lingers at Utah campus traumatised by Charlie Kirk killing

The campus of Utah Valley University was mostly deserted and silent on Thursday, a stark contrast with the scenes of panic and disbelief that erupted 24 hours earlier when a sniper killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk in front of 3,000 young people gathered to hear him speak. “It’s eerie, tense, quiet,” said McKinley Shinkle, a 25-year-old electrical engineering student when asked to describe how it felt on campus, which was ordered closed for the rest of the week. The single shot that struck Kirk rang out soon after the charismatic ally of President Donald Trump began taking questions from the audience at one of his signature outreach events, where he challenges students to debate contentious issues on topics including gun...