Charlie Kirk's family claims neglect of Utah and its university

According to Kirk's family, negligence and security breaches will have allowed the murder of the founder of Turning Point USA.

“ Through a series of surprising failures and reckless decisions, the UVU parties created a predictable danger for Charlie,” says the legal document to which the Spanish news agency EFE had access.

The document also claims that, due to these aspects, Kirk was “unprotected before the shooter who shot from the roof,” which could have been avoided if the university had taken “reasonable measures to plan and supervise the event” safely.

Kirk died on September 10, 2025, at the age of 31, after being shot by a bullet while speaking in an open-air debate on campus held by conservative organization Turning Point USA, of which he was co-founder and directed.

The event had about 3,000 people, but the university only placed six police officers to ensure their safety, according to the document, which states that campus police chief Jeffrey Long had requested more agents from the then president of UVU, Astrid Tuminez, but his request was refused.

The document also maintains that the university ignored a specific warning about the risk that roofs posed without surveillance near the stage.

According to the family, Turning Point USA personnel warned Long about possible student access to a roof near the location where Kirk would speak and asked for access to be controlled or a member of his own security allowed.

The police chief replied: “I’ll take care of it,” which, according to the document, led the organization to assume that the university had the situation under control.

The complaint also points out that the UVU did not monitor the security cameras in real time, because if this had been done, it would have allowed the shooter to be detected when he crossed the roof of the Losee building towards what the images then showed as a “shooter’s nest”.

In addition, he denounces that after the attack there were no first aid personnel available or ambulance at the scene, so Kirk was transported to Timpanogas Regional Hospital in a private vehicle.

The family argues that the university and its authorities have incurred both a violation of due constitutional process by “danger created by the state” and negligence under Utah’s unjust death law.

Twenty-two-year-old Tyler Robinson is charged with shooting Kirk and facing a separate criminal prosecution for murder.

At the beginning of the month, a judge ordered the case to go to trial, but a date has not yet been set for its initiation. If you're found guilty, Robinson, who turned himself in the day after the murder, you may face the death penalty.