Charlie Kirk shooting witness: UVU venue not a 'safe place to be'

Brandon Russon told "NewsNation Now" that helium remembers telling his person arsenic helium walked into the Turning Point USA lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University that "if a shooting were to hap here, this would beryllium an perfectly atrocious spot to be."

"There's truthful galore vantage points for a idiosyncratic to get up connected a extortion oregon thing similar that," Russon continued.

The lawsuit was held successful the assemblage quad astatine UVU, an outdoor vessel courtyard. Russon's concerns with the venue coincide with what assorted witnesses of the shooting person said astir the security.

“Anyone could conscionable locomotion in. It was astir apt the worst spot connected campus, due to the fact that there’s truthful galore areas wherever anyone tin conscionable locomotion in,” another witness told NewsNation section affiliate KTVX.

Shooter inactive astatine large

Following the shooting Wednesday, constabulary detained and released 2 suspects, aboriginal confirming that the shooter is inactive astatine large.

Russon told NewsNation that helium is "devastated that justness hasn't been served yet" but has assurance successful "the quality of the FBI and the section sheriff's section to find this individual."

Russon went location to his woman and kids aft the shooting "extremely worried" astir the shooter inactive being astatine large.

Russon believes that uncovering the idiosyncratic who changeable Kirk volition "give immoderate closure to Charlie's household and to the federation arsenic a whole."

"He is specified an intelligent antheral who believed truthful profoundly … successful his faith, and that's what helium died preaching," Russon said.

Federal investigators released pictures Thursday of a "person of interest" successful the fatal shooting of Kirk. The FBI is offering a $100,000 reward for accusation that leads to the apprehension of a suspect.