Trump confirmed on social media that Kirk, 31, had died from his injuries.
Kirk was hit while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University.
Investigators said they believed the single bullet had come from a campus rooftop, fired by someone dressed in black, in what appeared to be a targeted killing.
“The subject for the horrific shooting today that took the life of Charlie Kirk is now in custody,“ Patel said on X.
“No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us,“ Trump wrote.
“I want to be clear that this is a political assassination,“ he said.
“We just need every single person in this country to think about where we are and where we want to be, to ask ourselves: Is this what 250 years has wrought on us?”
Former Utah congressman Jason Chaffetz, who was at the rally, told Fox News the shooting had happened while Kirk was doing a question-and-answer session with the crowd.
“As soon as that shot went out, he fell back,“ he said. “Everybody hit the deck... a lot of people started screaming, and then everybody started running.”
Kirk had an outsized influence in US politics, helping the rise of Trump's support among younger voters -- one of the key factors in the Republican's return to power last year.
He used his enormous audiences on Instagram and YouTube to build support for anti-immigration policies, outspoken Christianity and gun ownership, and to spread viral, carefully edited clips of his back-and-forths during debates at his many campus events.
News of the shooting provoked horror across the political spectrum.
Right wing media figure Tomi Lahren called Kirk “visionary.”
“There is no place in our country for this kind of violence. It must end now,“ former president Joe Biden wrote on X.
Former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords -- a Democrat who survived an assassination attempt herself -- said she was “horrified” by the attack.
“Democratic societies will always have political disagreements, but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts those disagreements with violence,“ Giffords said - AFP
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