The FBI has release images of a “person if interest” in their hunt for a “college-age” gunman who killed right-wing US influencer Charlie Kirk.
They are asking for the public’s help in identifying the person, as a manhunt for the marksman is stepped up.
They are the first images law enforcement have released of an individual they believe may be involved in Mr Kirk’s death.
Federal agents said earlier that they found a high-powered rifle in the woods after Kirk was shot dead at Utah Valley University.
Officials have also obtained footwear, palm and forearm prints of the suspected killer.
The gunman is believed to have fled Utah State University, where the Turning Point USA founder, 31, was speaking, into a nearby neighbourhood.
At a press conference several hours before the FBI special agent Robert Bohls believe the local community is at any great risk.
The killer is understood to have arrived near campus at 11.52am local time. He then climbed stairwells up to the roof and across the roof to the Losee Center, just 130 meters from where Kirk was fatally shot with a single bullet in the neck whilst he was speaking to students at the university’s courtyard at around 12.20pm.
Investigators on Thursday morning recovered “what we believe to be the weapon that was used in yesterday’s shooting” — a bolt-action rifle — in a wooded area where authorities believe the suspect fled.
