Eyewitnesses react to Charlie Kirk shooting

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All of a sudden I heard just one pop. Saw Charlie all of a sudden, like, his head kind of fell back, and blood was just gushing out of his neck. And then at that point I kind of turned my head to look up to him because it felt like it came from up behind me.

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And then I saw everybody dropping, so I dropped down. And then the next thing I know they said, run, so we all took off running.

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We heard two pops and we ran. And a lot of people ran with us. When I was standing by the door kind of overseeing what was happening, some people were standing there still taking videos. So I went back out to look over the railing

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to see like maybe someone just did some firecrackers, something like that. But more and more people were screaming, crying, dispersing super quickly from the scene. More and more people were headed Charlie's way. And yeah, just pure craziness. Then after getting back into the building, just tons of people flooding

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to go outside, get away from the scene.

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Charlie hit the ground. We saw him fall. But it looks like the shot came and it hit, he was facing us, and it looked like it hit the left side of his neck. To be perfectly blunt, it seemed like it felt like so much blood came out of his neck immediately and then we all took to the ground. I can't tell you almost what happened immediately after.

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There was a handicapped person there that wanted a hat and so I was trying to get Charlie's attention and he saw me and he came right over and handed me this hat. And it was really very kind. I'm just sitting there watching. I think, wow, he's taller than I thought he was. And he's so energetic and he's so happy. He's throwing these hats out.

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And the crowd is just going nuts. And the crowd is just going nuts. And it was a huge college crowd.

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