September 10, 2025 • 4 mins
Hayley & Max speak with a witness who was only metres away from Charlie Kirk when he was fatally shot in the neck early this morning.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Heart podcasts here more miex one or two point
three podcasts, playlists and listen live on the free iHeart
app story. Also familiar with this now shocking scenes out
of the United States overnight, a lot of video getting around.
I'd recommend you don't look at it, but I'm sure
it's going to be pretty hard to avoid. Right wing
influencer Charlie Kirk is his name. He's a thirty one
(00:30):
year old. He has been shot dead, assassinated while giving
a talk to thousands of students at the Utah Valley
University in Salt Lake City.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
This has just happened in America. And someone that was there,
she's twenty years old. Her name's Hallie. She was sitting
three rows back joins us. Now, can you tell us
about what happened? Halle.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah. So I just went to my normal classes and
I heard about this Charlie Kirk event from some of
my friends, and I wanted to see what he had
to say, and I went and sat down in this
Ampler theater outdoors on campus. It started out super peaceful.
It started out about noon today. He had answered a
couple questions and it was going well, and one speaker
had asked him a question. Before he could even answer,
(01:13):
someone opened fire and shot him in the neck. And
there were thousands of students there. I mean, this was
this is a this is one of the largest university
in the state of Utah with the most students, and
so there was many, many, many people there and everyone
just started running and screaming and it it turned into
a real tragedy in the traumatic event.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Wow, and you're sitting what really close to this stage
at this point?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, I was on the third row. What did you do?
How did you react? At first? Honestly, he's in a
tent like at the bottom of the Amphitheater, so we
didn't really know what had happened. We didn't know if
he had gotten shot up, there was other like shots.
We didn't know where it was coming from. I just
got up and ran, Me and my friend. We just
got up and ran. That's all we could do. The
(01:59):
parking lot is pretty close to the to the Amphitheater
and where this event was happening, and we just ran
as fast as we could to our cars.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Is this a thing in America that you're I'm just
constantly afraid of that these kind of stuff can happen
because this doesn't happen in Australia.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
We don't have guns.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Honestly. You know, you hear about it happening, You hear
about shootings, you hear you hear about it in the news,
but you never ever think it's going to happen to you.
You never think it is, and tell it does. I've
heard about things like this happening, but not very close
to where I'm from. This is a very safe community,
a very safe state.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Can you tell us we're saying there's a very A
whole lot of graphic videos online. I would recommend you
don't go and look at them. For you to be
so close and to be so young, helly, you're you're
a student, you're getting through all of these what's that
moment going to be like for you? Will you be
able to forget that?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I won't be able to forget it, especially hearing that
gunshot and seeing him go down and seeing everyone running
through the grass and there's a fountain and just screaming
and terror and people holding each other. That is a
scene that has replayed all day today and we'll replay
in my head over and over again. It was just
(03:12):
so traumatic. I don't think I'll ever be able to
get over it.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
No, because you hear this gun shot and you're like
if someone else, like are they going to be more
shots fired? And so like we did you think straight?
Like where were you running to?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Where were you? You did? Just ran?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I just ran up, just getting out because the amplitheater
kind of goes down and you just run run up.
And then eventually I just tried to run out to
the parking lot to my car.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
How are you okay, I'm.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Okay, I'm okay. I'm just it was a very traumatic event.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
There was so much screaming and terror, like I can't
even I can't even describe it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I'm so sorry that you've been through this. This is
so awful and this is why in Australia we just
think the guns. We wish you were like us.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yeah, for this, something like this to happen makes me question,
you know, should there be more regulations, like should something else?
Something has to be done. This can't, this can't happen again.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Please look after yourself and take care of yourself and
whatever that looks like you need to do to process
this and go on and prosper with your young life.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Harley, thanks so much for your.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Time, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It's so grim. He's got two kids, he's got a
wife that he's left behind. I mean us aside, let's
please not assassinate people. It is so grim. The irony
of it all, and a lot of people I've seen
pointing out online who are gloating about his demise is
that he is a gun activist, and he has previously
said yep, a few people are going to have to
(04:38):
die every year for us to have our freedoms.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And this makes us even more lucky that we live
in Australia.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Absolutely
My Heart podcasts here more miex one or two point
three podcasts, playlists and listen live on the free iHeart
app story. Also familiar with this now shocking scenes out
of the United States overnight, a lot of video getting around.
I'd recommend you don't look at it, but I'm sure
it's going to be pretty hard to avoid. Right wing
influencer Charlie Kirk is his name. He's a thirty one
(00:30):
year old. He has been shot dead, assassinated while giving
a talk to thousands of students at the Utah Valley
University in Salt Lake City.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
This has just happened in America. And someone that was there,
she's twenty years old. Her name's Hallie. She was sitting
three rows back joins us. Now, can you tell us
about what happened? Halle.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah. So I just went to my normal classes and
I heard about this Charlie Kirk event from some of
my friends, and I wanted to see what he had
to say, and I went and sat down in this
Ampler theater outdoors on campus. It started out super peaceful.
It started out about noon today. He had answered a
couple questions and it was going well, and one speaker
had asked him a question. Before he could even answer,
(01:13):
someone opened fire and shot him in the neck. And
there were thousands of students there. I mean, this was
this is a this is one of the largest university
in the state of Utah with the most students, and
so there was many, many, many people there and everyone
just started running and screaming and it it turned into
a real tragedy in the traumatic event.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Wow, and you're sitting what really close to this stage
at this point?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, I was on the third row. What did you do?
How did you react? At first? Honestly, he's in a
tent like at the bottom of the Amphitheater, so we
didn't really know what had happened. We didn't know if
he had gotten shot up, there was other like shots.
We didn't know where it was coming from. I just
got up and ran, Me and my friend. We just
got up and ran. That's all we could do. The
(01:59):
parking lot is pretty close to the to the Amphitheater
and where this event was happening, and we just ran
as fast as we could to our cars.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Is this a thing in America that you're I'm just
constantly afraid of that these kind of stuff can happen
because this doesn't happen in Australia.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
We don't have guns.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Honestly. You know, you hear about it happening, You hear
about shootings, you hear you hear about it in the news,
but you never ever think it's going to happen to you.
You never think it is, and tell it does. I've
heard about things like this happening, but not very close
to where I'm from. This is a very safe community,
a very safe state.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Can you tell us we're saying there's a very A
whole lot of graphic videos online. I would recommend you
don't go and look at them. For you to be
so close and to be so young, helly, you're you're
a student, you're getting through all of these what's that
moment going to be like for you? Will you be
able to forget that?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I won't be able to forget it, especially hearing that
gunshot and seeing him go down and seeing everyone running
through the grass and there's a fountain and just screaming
and terror and people holding each other. That is a
scene that has replayed all day today and we'll replay
in my head over and over again. It was just
(03:12):
so traumatic. I don't think I'll ever be able to
get over it.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
No, because you hear this gun shot and you're like
if someone else, like are they going to be more
shots fired? And so like we did you think straight?
Like where were you running to?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Where were you? You did? Just ran?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I just ran up, just getting out because the amplitheater
kind of goes down and you just run run up.
And then eventually I just tried to run out to
the parking lot to my car.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
How are you okay, I'm.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Okay, I'm okay. I'm just it was a very traumatic event.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
There was so much screaming and terror, like I can't
even I can't even describe it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I'm so sorry that you've been through this. This is
so awful and this is why in Australia we just
think the guns. We wish you were like us.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yeah, for this, something like this to happen makes me question,
you know, should there be more regulations, like should something else?
Something has to be done. This can't, this can't happen again.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Please look after yourself and take care of yourself and
whatever that looks like you need to do to process
this and go on and prosper with your young life.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Harley, thanks so much for your.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Time, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It's so grim. He's got two kids, he's got a
wife that he's left behind. I mean us aside, let's
please not assassinate people. It is so grim. The irony
of it all, and a lot of people I've seen
pointing out online who are gloating about his demise is
that he is a gun activist, and he has previously
said yep, a few people are going to have to
(04:38):
die every year for us to have our freedoms.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And this makes us even more lucky that we live
in Australia.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Absolutely
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