If you love your job and desperately want to keep it to pay your bills, then do not post anything derogatory about Charlie Kirk on social media.
An assistant dean at Middle Tennessee State University is learning the hard way why people should keep bad things to themselves.
The dean was fired after posting “inappropriate and callous comments” about the murder of Charlie Kirk, the school’s president said in a Facebook post.
The move, “concerning the horrific and tragic murder of Charlie Kirk,” Middle Tennessee State University’s President Sidney McPhee said in a statement, came after Kirk was shot in the neck on Wednesday as he answered questions about transgender individuals and mass shootings.
The dean said she has “zero sympathy” for Charlie Kirk, whose wife and kids were present during his shooting death.
Now she has no employment.
The school fired Laura Sosh-Lightsy, who “joined the MTSU family in June 2004. Laura has over two decades of experience in student development.”
BREAKING: Assistant Dean of Students at MTSU has been FIRED effective immediately following vile comments celebrating Charlie’s death. https://t.co/kus1M9qShe pic.twitter.com/X6WK7dazXY
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 11, 2025
According to her LinkedIn page, Sosh-Lightsy was the assistant dean of students at MTSU, who previously attended Western Kentucky University.
Being fired is one thing, but having a paper trail with your name leading to this is going to be quite damaging for her future employment chances.
Update On Charlie Kirk’s Shooter
The gunman who killed Kirk targeted him and fired from a campus building 200 yards away, hitting him once in the neck.
President Donald Trump announced Kirk’s death, praising the activist as a “truly Great American Patriot.”
Authorities did not immediately identify a motive, but the suspect’s identity is starting to emerge slowly.
On Thursday, the FBI released two photos of a new person of interest that they think might be the killer of Charlie Kirk.
The images show a male wearing jeans, a long-sleeved black shirt with an American flag graphic, black sunglasses, and a hat.
The FBI is offering a $100,000 bounty for information that helps crack the case.
