By Editor,Katelyn Caralle

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Vice President JD Vance will visit Salt Lake City, Utah on Thursday to pay respects to Charlie Kirk’s family.

He will no longer travel to New York City to visit Ground Zero for the September 11 service, a source familiar with the change in plans told the Daily Mail.

Second Lady Usha Vance will join her husband for the somber trip out west.

Kirk was assassinated while speaking at the first stop of his America Comeback Tour on the campus of Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

The father-of-two, known for his combative and viral debates with college students across the country, collapsed immediately after being hit in the neck by a single bullet from about 200 yards.

Kirk was speaking for about 20 minutes and was answering a question about mass shootings just seconds before he was struck.

He was rushed to hospital in a critical condition, but was declared dead two-and-half hours later.

The killer is still on the loose, with the FBI and Utah police conducting a manhunt for the shooter.

Kirk leaves behind his wife Erika Frantzve Kirk, with whom he had a three-year-old daughter and a one-year-old son.

The couple celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary in May.