University of Utah student charged with making gun gestures, threatening to shoot conservative debaters

A University of Utah pupil was arrested Monday aft a viral video captured him allegedly making weapon gestures and threatening to sprout blimpish field speakers during a nationalist statement extracurricular the school’s Marriott Library.

Dean Stewart, 21, was arrested and charged by the University of Utah Police Department with disorderly conduct, making threats and disobeying a lawful order, according to the university.

A video of the incident, which went viral connected societal media, appeared to amusement Stewart making a shooting motion astatine speakers from Reawaken USA, a blimpish enactment that was being hosted astatine the University of Utah.

Reawaken USA has a field circuit programme akin to that of the precocious Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA (TPUSA) organization, whereby speakers question to antithetic universities to statement governmental issues.

A pupil allegedly threatened blimpish debaters astatine the University of Utah. (Reawaken USA)

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"Holy s---, did you spot that," 19-year-old Reawaken USA talker Aden Nicholas says successful the inheritance of the video.

Reawaken USA founder, president and CEO James Owen told Fox News Digital helium and Nicholas were debating with a pupil successful beforehand of Marriott Library erstwhile Stewart approached them.

"He called america ‘Nazi pigs,’ and started saying that idiosyncratic should sprout america successful the neck," Owen said. "Then helium said, ‘I should f------ termination you.’ He started making weapon motions astatine us, went into the crowd, came backmost retired and past continued to marque weapon motions and saying, ‘I should sprout you.’ He said, 'Don't travel up excessively close, oregon I whitethorn termination you.’ As helium was walking away, helium did this pump shotgun motion, and that's erstwhile the cops got up and apprehended him."

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University officials said successful a connection Stewart "disrupted an event," told the speakers they "should beryllium changeable successful the neck" and "repeatedly made manus gestures of shooting [them] with a rifle."

"He said helium ‘hoped we get changeable successful the neck’ and that we ‘get Kirked,'" said Nicholas, who had ne'er tabled connected a assemblage field before.

Kirk, the laminitis of TPUSA, was assassinated during a sojourn to Utah Valley University successful Orem, Utah, Sept. 10, 2025.

The University of Utah pupil allegedly made a "shooting" question connected campus. (Reawaken USA)

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His accused assassin, Tyler Robinson, is charged with aggravated execution and faces the anticipation of the decease punishment if convicted.

Police responded "very swiftly," according to Owen, grabbing Stewart and asking Reawaken officials if they wanted to property charges, and they agreed.

Despite Monday's incident, Reawaken USA continued its circuit Tuesday with Owens taking enactment of a pupil who stepped successful during Stewart's evident outburst.

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"One of those students who was highly hostile came up to the mic, really stopped [Stewart] earlier helium went retired to bash [the shooting motion] the 2nd time," Owens said. "Security heard them say, 'Hey dude, I cognize we don't hold with these guys, but they look truly nice. I don't deliberation you should bash that.' … The students really reacted. If you can't judge [it, our topic] was ‘the near is much convulsive than the right,’ and they were sitting there, and I deliberation that they realized they need[ed] to squash that.

The University of Utah confirmed the idiosyncratic arrested successful the incidental was a 21-year-old student. (Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images)

"After the event, portion we were getting escorted retired by our security, [an attendee] came implicit and said, 'Hey James, I cognize we argued with you astir it, but we tin spot wherever you're right. Will you beryllium present tomorrow?'" helium continued. "I said, ‘Yes,' and [Tuesday], erstwhile we came [back], we had implicit 150 students amusement up. They came close up and said, ‘James, we looked up each the statistics. We tin spot it.’ In beforehand of myself and Aden, they said, ‘What tin we do?’ … We're not trying to ain the liberals. We're trying to span the divide, instrumentality distant the polarization … and bring radical to truth."

Owen founded Reawaken USA aft Kirk's death, with a ngo to "identify, make and deploy the adjacent procreation of taste leaders."

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"When Charlie Kirk died, everyone saw a void," Owen said. "I received a batch of opportunities, a batch of organizations reaching retired to motion me. … Instead of centralizing each the attraction connected maine going connected a tour, I decided I wanted to bash thing more."

Reawaken USA partnered with a fig of governmental influencers for the tour, including Nicholas, a caller assemblage postgraduate who started moving arsenic a legislature run manager astatine conscionable 17 years old.

"His imaginativeness for Reawaken was thing that truly captivated maine close retired of the gate," said Nicholas. "We got connected the telephone a small portion agone astir thing wholly unrelated, and by the extremity of the call, James was like, ‘You know, I truly deliberation that you should commencement influencing. Could you representation yourself down a statement table?'

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"I person household members who specifically [said], ‘Can you committedness not to spell onto assemblage campuses and debate?’ I thought it was each precise ironic," helium continued. "I conscionable truly bask having discussions astir antithetic policies, antithetic taste takes, antithetic governmental takes, due to the fact that I deliberation that is thing that we're missing successful America. Whether oregon not you similar Charlie Kirk, everybody admits that helium was consenting to person the conversation, which is what I was ace excited to do."

Reawaken USA volition marque 32 stops connected its field tour, traveling to states including Utah, California, New York and Pennsylvania.