After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, a viral video showed University of North Texas students celebrating. Now, the school says it is “reviewing” the incident for possible violations.
Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Point USA, was answering students’ questions at Utah Valley University when a single shot rang out on September 10, as The Dallas Express reported at the time. He was taken to a local hospital, where he died, leaving a legacy of faith, family, and freedom.
The day following Kirk’s assassination, a UNT student’s video went viral – apparently showing classmates laughing at Kirk’s assassination footage and celebrating the murder.
BREAKING – A University of North Texas student is going viral for confronting classmates who were passing around a video of Charlie Kirk dying while laughing, and says the professor singled her out and asked her to leave class. pic.twitter.com/tNn9riEtrW
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) September 11, 2025
UNT issued a statement that evening calling Kirk’s death “tragic.” The school said it stood by the “free and civil exchange of ideas,” and said it would hold accountable students who violate the law or Code of Conduct.
“The recent actions of a few of our community members regarding Mr. Kirk’s death do not represent the values of our community,” the statement reads.
The Dallas Express asked what actions UNT has taken in response and if it will take future action against students who celebrate Kirk’s assassination.
“We can confirm UNT is reviewing the actions reported on campus for potential Code of Student Conduct violations, as well as any other potential violations of UNT System and university policies,” a media representative replied to The Dallas Express.
Republican state Rep. Brian Harrison denounced the video and pointed to UNT’s “LGBTQ Studies Minor.”
“Perhaps that explains what you’re seeing in this video,” he said. “Texans, your money is funding the trans movement… because of the elected Republican leadership in Texas.”
This is what Governor @GregAbbott_TX's Regents at @UNTsocial are doing with our tax dollars.
Perhaps that explains what you're seeing in this video.
Texans, your money is funding the trans movement… because of the elected Republican leadership in Texas. https://t.co/LHNZJio8qp pic.twitter.com/BkyZbOlncG
— Brian Harrison (@brianeharrison) September 11, 2025
Glorifying Assassination
In the video, a student filmed her classmate demeaning Kirk for supporting President Donald Trump and opposing abortion. The classmate then apparently showed the assassination video to others, who reacted with laughter.
“Why are we cheering for someone getting shot?” the student recording the video asked.
A classmate interjected, “He’s dead.”
“No matter what political beliefs are, we should not be cheering that someone got shot,” the student continued. “He has a family.”
“So did those little kids at church that got shot,” another responded, apparently referencing the transgender Minneapolis shooter who murdered Catholic kids in August.
“Yes, and who shot them? A transgender person,” the student replied, to heckling from the class.
The Dallas Express recently discovered communist propaganda on UNT’s campus, glorifying Luigi Mangione – the alleged assassin of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. “Expropriate the billionaires,” the poster read, with a picture of the reported assassin in an orange jumpsuit.
Kirk’s murder followed a trail of violent left-wing rhetoric, which created what he described just months before as “assassination culture,” as The Dallas Express reported. Soon after Kirk’s own assassination, Democrats mocked him and cheered on the bloodshed.