via US news | The Guardian — Shooting reveals how political violence has become feature of American life on a night dedicated to press freedom Ahead of this year’s White House correspondents’ dinner, conversations centered on the role of the media and freedom of the press as journalists prepared to dine with the president. Instead of a speech stacked with heated barbs against the media, the event ended like many in the US do: with gun violence . Continue reading...

A fourth student was transported to the hospital, but it is unclear what injury they had.

Kirk - known for holding outdoor campus debates across the US - was shot from around 200 yards away; his attacker has not been caught.