Kimberly Hunt #

Introduction #

Kimberly Hunt is an Arizona human resources worker who was doxxed and fired in September 2025 after posting a short Facebook video questioning the sympathy that followed the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Hunt, then 31 and living in Scottsdale, filmed the video on September 10, 2025 — the same day a lone gunman shot and killed Kirk as he spoke at Utah Valley University — and challenged those saying he “didn’t deserve to die.” Within days, an anonymous TikTok account had posted her professional headshot along with her company’s address and phone number, urging followers to contact her employer; after hundreds of calls and emails disrupted the business, her boss told her he had to let her go. She has never disavowed the video and said she “would have done it again.”

Background Information #

At the time of the episode, Hunt was a 31-year-old human resources professional living in Scottsdale, Arizona. She kept her workplace out of her online life: by her own account she never listed her employer on social media, and neither the SWNS report carried by Yahoo News UK nor The Intercept’s follow-up a year later named the company. The man whose death upended her life was Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, whom The Intercept reported was shot in the throat by a lone gunman at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025, dying within minutes; his wife, Erika, has since taken over as the organization’s CEO. His assassination set off a wave of retaliation against critics: The Intercept counted more than 600 people whose lives were upended in its wake.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation #

Allegations. Hunt was never charged with any offense, and nothing in this section was adjudicated in court. Her video is documented fact — she published it herself and owns it — while the doxxing campaign, the flood of calls and emails that disrupted her employer’s business, the “hit list” warning, and the police surveillance of her home are her account, as reported by SWNS/Yahoo News UK and The Intercept. Her firing was a private employment action, taken by an employer that has not been publicly named, not the outcome of any legal process.

On September 10, 2025, the same day Kirk was shot, Hunt posted a short video on Facebook taking aim at those insisting he “didn’t deserve to die.” “He said a few deaths a year are worth it if it meant preserving our God-given right to bear arms. He actively fought against women’s rights. He’s openly Islamophobic, and he spreads anti-trans rhetoric,” she said into the camera, before asking: “How many hate crimes happened because of him? Spare me the empathy because he didn’t believe in it either.” She said she had sympathy for Kirk’s children but not for his widow, Erika.

The response found her quickly despite her careful separation of work and social media. Soon after the video, an anonymous TikTok account posted her professional headshot, her company’s address, and its phone number, encouraging followers to contact her employer; within hours, she says, she was the victim of a “mass doxxing campaign” targeting people who had made critical comments about Kirk after his assassination. Doxxers spammed her workplace with hundreds of phone calls and emails, she says. When her boss asked her to a meeting, she knew the writing was on the wall. “He explained that I had put him in a tough position because there were so many phone calls coming into our business that it was disrupting their operations,” she recalled, “And that he had to let me go.”

Public Reaction and Consequences #

Hunt’s doxxing was not an isolated flare-up but part of a coordinated wave. Lists circulated naming people accused of “celebrating” Kirk’s death, and Vice President JD Vance urged followers: “When you see someone celebrating Charlie’s murder, call them out,” adding, “And hell, call their employer.” The calls and emails to Hunt’s employer were precisely the response the anonymous TikTok post had invited, and they achieved their aim: she was fired within days of the video, an outcome she attributes to the campaign against her rather than anything her employer had objected to before it.

The pressure outlasted the job. Hunt said the harassment continued after her firing, and at one point she received a call from her local sheriff warning that she was said to be on a “hit list”; officers surveilled her home for two weeks.

Current Status #

Hunt remained out of full-time work a full year after the firing: The Intercept, profiling her on the first anniversary of Kirk’s death, reported that she “hasn’t been able to find a full-time job since September” 2025. She has shown no sign of retreating from the video or the views behind it. “I don’t think dying absolved him of the stochastic terrorism that he inflicted on people,” she told the outlet, adding that in her view the backlash “painted a bigger picture of the right and the mob mentality.” No legal action by Hunt over the firing or the doxxing campaign appears in either press account.

Impact on Their Career/Life #

The immediate cost was her livelihood: within days of posting the video, Hunt went from HR professional to unemployed, with her face, name, and workplace circulated to strangers who had been urged to call. The harassment that followed — the hundreds of calls, the “hit list” warning relayed by her local sheriff, two weeks of officers watching her home — turned a firing into a sustained ordeal she did not choose and could not opt out of. A year on, she was still job hunting, but unrepentant: she told The Intercept she “would have done it again.”