Erika Kirk: Charlie Kirk’s widow reveals moment she found out he had been assassinated
Erika Kirk tearfully described the traumatic moment she learned her husband, right-wing influencer Charlie, had been fatally shot in the neck at a college rally.
In her first deeply emotional sit-down interview since the assassination that shook the United States, Ms. Kirk revealed that she had never watched the video of the shooting at Utah Valley University on September 10 and had no plans to do so.
“I’ve never seen the video, I never will,” Fox’s Jesse Watters told Primetime.
“I never want to see that. There are some things you see in your life that you can never forget. There are some things you see in your life that are branded on your soul forever. I don’t want the public assassination of my husband to be something I saw. I don’t want my children to ever see that.”
Ms. Kirk said she was looking forward to speaking at the Turning Point USA event, and their last interaction took place that morning at their home in Arizona.
“She came in and took it (the wedding ring and necklace) and then left. I couldn’t even kiss her goodbye.”
Unfortunately, he would only be able to do this later as he lay lifeless in a Utah hospital.
Mrs. Kirk stayed behind to take her sick mother to the doctor. Moments after watching the video of Charlie throwing a hat into the crowd at the event, she received a phone call that would change her and her children’s lives forever.
“Mikey (McCoym, Turning Point chief of staff) called me,” he said. “I’ll never forget Charlie got shot. He got shot, get the kids. Call security, get the kids, get the kids, he got shot. I raced out of the treatment center and collapsed in the middle of the parking lot.”
“He died instantly when the bullet hit him,” Kirk said. “He died at the scene. But I’m so glad he didn’t suffer, I’m so glad he didn’t suffer.”
“No one deserves to suffer except a handful of people. He literally blinked and thought he was probably passed out and looked around and said: “Where is everyone else? He blinked and was with God.”
When she arrived in Utah, Ms. Kirk said, she went directly to the hospital to see his body, despite advice from doctors and the police officer that he wait at the morgue because it was an intentional death.
“I answered him and said, with all due respect, sir. I want to see what they did to my husband and I want to give him a kiss because I didn’t have the opportunity to give him a kiss this morning,” she explained.
“I was so glad to see him because… when you see someone in the morgue, they never look the same,” Kirk thought. “They have terrible makeup and are cold. He was still warm and his eyes were slightly open. He was very strong, Jesse. He had a grin on his face.”
“This grin that came to me was a ‘you thought you could stop what I created’ look,” he mused. “This vision, this movement, this revival, you thought you could do it by killing me. You took my body. You did not take my soul.”
Mr. Kirk’s alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah man, remains behind bars awaiting trial for the murder.
