Charlie Kirk, a right-wing activist and close ally of US President Donald Trump, was shot dead in a targeted attack at Utah Valley University. Elon Musk has responded to the incident, calling it a “cold-blooded murder”. Musk expressed his shock and grief in a series of posts on X: “The shot looked real bad, but I sure hope Charlie makes it somehow”.

A couple of X users pointed out that posts on Bluesky are “celebrating the assassination”. The Tesla CEO responded saying “shows what we’re dealing with. Evil people.”

When a user wrote “Whether you agreed with him or not, Charlie Kirk is dead purely because some people didn’t like what he had to say. That should outrage every single one of us”, Musk responded with an affirmative “yes”.

“They are celebrating cold-blooded murder”, he wrote in another post.

In another post on X, Elon Musk called out the left party saying “The Left is the party of murder”. He was responding to an X user that said “The Left lectured us for the last decade about the dangers of violence from the Right. From the assassination attempts of President Trump. To Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO, being murdered. Now to Charlie Kirk. The danger was actually on the Left”.