Charlie Kirk was not assassinated.
Charlie Kirk was murdered.
Charlie Kirk was not a public official covered by assassination statutes. There is no suggestion that the killer was motivated by a contract. Charlie Kirk lacked the public prominence to merit "assassination" in common usage.
His killer seems to have been pretty much just a glorified schoolshooter, not unlike the kid who tried to shoot Trump. Like, shockingly little coherent motive.
The Trump rally shooter was a patsy, I'm sure. Told to shoot near Trump and promised wealth and a pardon but he was a loose end. I'm not a conspiracist but there is not one thing about that event that makes sense if it wasn't a setup.
Assassins and would-be assassins often have idiosyncratic and/or incoherent motives.
See, for instance, Mark David Chapman, Squeaky Fromme, John Hinckley, and Charles Guiteau, none of whom had motives that make a whole lot of sense.
