Charlie Kirk-Related Assassination Missions Removed From ‘Grand Theft Auto Online’

After multiple user-created “Grand Theft Auto (GTA) Online” missions of a certain nature surfaced online, parent company Rockstar Games took action. “Players have used the Mission Creator to craft assassination missions, even ones based on real-world events,” according to Game Rant. Rockstar removed the storylines and banned content related to Charlie Kirk.

One user-created mission “prompted the player to shoot a character named Charlie Kirk with a sniper rifle,” Variety reported.

Charlie Kirk Assassination Storylines Were Available in ‘Grand Theft Auto Online’

Since 2013, the “Grand Theft Auto” franchise has combined street racing with underground burglaries. Its fast-paced, cinematic plots have captured the attention of players of all ages, despite violent and controversial themes. Critics say the mature-rated content crossed a line when user-created missions depicting the Charlie Kirk assassination appeared online.

These missions have now been removed and banned.

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“Grand Theft Auto V” is the seventh entry in the “GTA” franchise. Players engage with “some of the most frightening and deranged elements of the criminal world,” amid luxury cars, criminal enterprises, and sexually explicit imagery. “Grand Theft Auto Online” is a multiplayer online video game in which players work together—and against one another—to carry out fictional storylines and heists.

As part of a downloadable content (DLC) update released in December 2025, “GTA Online” introduced a feature allowing users to create and share custom missions, Variety reported. These missions can then be played by other users.

“Videos surfaced on social media recently showing a mission titled ‘We Are Charlie Kirk,’” TMZ reported, “where the player grabs a sniper rifle and shoots an NPC [non-player character] standing under a canopy on the University of San Andreas, Los Santos campus.”

The user-created storyline, along with others like it, was intended to mirror the real-world assassination of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

While the video game’s safety team quickly deleted the missions, Rockstar also took additional steps to prevent similar content from appearing. The company added “Charlie Kirk” to its online profanity and prohibited-terms filter to “stop people from mimicking horrific real-world events.”

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Some users continue attempting to bypass content restrictions by misspelling Charlie Kirk’s name or using other languages, MSN reported. Moderating user-generated content remains an ongoing challenge for developers.

While Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, has vowed to “never” watch footage of the attack, online fascination with violent content persists.

“I never saw the video. I never will see it. I never want to see it,” Erika told Fox News’ Jesse Watters. “There’s certain things you see in life that you can never unsee. There’s certain things in your life that mark your soul forever.”

“We are human,” she said. “Life is fragile, and there is so much beauty in this world—why would you waste any portion of your life looking at something so evil?”