Before his apprehension, speculation about the identity and motivations of Charlie Kirk's killer filled the void. A increasingly familiar pattern of political violence is taking shape in America.

Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old in custody as the suspect in the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, had recently become more politically active, family members said.

Charlie Kirk’s killing comes amid an alarming rise in political violence across the U.S., targeting both Democrats and Republicans. Rachel Kleinfeld, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an expert on political violence,

Political pundit Matthew Dowd made some remarks about conservative activist Charlie Kirk's death on Wednesday, leading to his reported termination from MSNBC. Charlie, 31, was shot during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, September 10.

To better understand if and how to quell this surge, POLITICO Magazine reached out to political violence experts, both in the U.S. and abroad, many of whom have for some time been sounding an alarm around the trend of increased violence.

De-escalation is that much harder, yet even more necessary, in the wake of Charlie Kirk's brutal assassination.

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The shooter who assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk and then vanished off a roof and into the woods is still at large more than 24 hours later