A witness told Fox News Digital that people in the crowd immediately dropped to the ground when Charlie Kirk was shot. (Lexi Langley)

Lexi Langley, a recent graduate of Brigham Young University, told Fox News Digital people immediately dropped to the ground after the shot was fired.

“At the moment, I wasn’t aware he had been shot. Everyone just seemed to hit the ground around me,” Langley recalled. “I started bracing myself for more gunfire because I feared it might be a mass shooting. The thought that it could have been an assassination attempt never even occurred to me.”

Charlie Kirk hands out hats before speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP)

Langley said she ran into a building with others and that’s when she realized what had happened.

“It still didn’t really feel real. Like I felt like I was in a dream. It was so weird,” she said. “So many people were coming through crying… it’s like the worst way to bond with strangers. But in that moment, it was like, it doesn’t matter who I talk to, we are all in this together.”

A police officer walks out of a building at Utah Valley University as authorities investigate the fatal shooting of political activist Charlie Kirk on Sept. 11, 2025, in Orem, Utah. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

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