A former Utah Valley University student who attended the event where conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was killed on Wednesday described the event's security to CNN as "fairly mild."
"I would say security was fairly mild for the amount of people that were there," Dallin Smith told CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday. "I don't think they expected that many people. It seemed like a little bit more than some of the other events that you can watch."
"When I was coming through the doors of the campus, I didn't see any security," he added. "That wasn't my impression of what was going on."
Smith, who attended Kirk's event with his sister, also described the scene after the shooting.
"It was surreal," Smith said. "We heard two pops and we ran. Some other people ran with us. When I was standing by the door kind of overseeing what was happening, some people were standing there still taking videos. So, I went back out to look over the railing to see maybe somebody had just done some fireworks or a firecracker or something like that. But more people were screaming, crying, dispersing super quickly from the scene."
"A lot of tears, a lot of phone calls," Smith added.
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