Overview

• Nasdaq announced the dismissal in a post on X and declined to comment further beyond that statement.
• The employee, described as a woman in a sustainability role, wrote a derogatory post about Kirk that was widely reposted on X.
• Charlie Kirk, 31, was shot in the neck while speaking at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday and was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
• Police on Friday identified and apprehended 22-year-old Tyler Robinson of Utah as a suspect after a family tip.
• The episode echoes earlier actions by financial firms, including Citigroup’s 2023 firing of an employee over an antisemitic social-media remark.