A quiet Utah town reckons with Charlie Kirk’s shooting: ‘Nothing like this has happened here’
by Cy Neff in Orem, Utah from US news | The Guardian on (#6ZZHJ)
People paid respects to the far-right activist and Trump ally as they pondered his divisive legacy
Orem, Utah, a sleepy suburb of roughly 100,000 people at the feet of the Wasatch mountains, never asked for the national spotlight.
But in the wake of the killing of far-right activist Charlie Kirk in front of a packed audience at a university in the heart of town, the weight of the nation's gaze was inescapable. A forest of American flags planted atop a highway interpass next to Utah Valley University (UVU), where Kirk was shot. A campus on lockdown and makeshift memorials. The ubiquitous presence of local cops and FBI agents.
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