Charlie Kirk

Less than two weeks before Charlie Kirk's assassination in Utah, the Tulare County Sheriff's Office conducted three days of reconnaissance to prepare for a speech by the conservative firebrand at a local church in politically friendly territory.

Mayor Jerry Dyer and City Council President Mike Karbassi said their thoughts and prayers are with Kirk’s family.

Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, has been shot and killed at a Utah college event in an act that the state’s governor called a “political assassination.” A “person of interest” was in custody Wednesday evening, said Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, though no charges were immediately announced.