Overview
- Colorado State University reported 7,419 attendees at the Turning Point USA-led vigil at Canvas Stadium.
- University officials coordinated with local, state and federal agencies, enforced a clear-bag policy and magnetometers, and reiterated Colorado’s campus firearms ban.
- CSU emphasized it did not sponsor or endorse the event, providing facilities only as required for outside organizers.
- Heidi Ganahl, Isabel Brown, Will Witt and Andrew Wommack addressed the crowd, and a separate forum titled “For Free Speech. Against Political Violence.” followed at the Lory Student Center.
- The suspect in Kirk’s Utah killing was arrested Sept. 11, as additional vigils took place in Boston and Texas, Utah Valley University set a Sept. 19 campus vigil, and a Sept. 21 memorial in Arizona is slated to feature President Donald Trump.