Article continues below advertisementDonald Trump confirmed conservative activist Charlie Kirk has been pronounced dead after being shot in the neck on Wednesday, September 10. He was 31."The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie," the president wrote on Truth Social. "He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family.