Erika Kirk is opening up about the devastating moment she learned her husband, Charlie Kirk, had been shot and killed.
In her first interview since the conservative commentator’s death, Erika told the New York Times on Thursday, September 18, that she received a frantic call from Charlie’s assistant, Michael McCoy. “He’s been shot!” McCoy shouted down the line. She immediately boarded a plane, desperate to reach her husband, but while still in the air she was told he had died.
“I’m looking at the clouds and the mountains,” she recalled of the flight. “It was such a gorgeous day, and I was thinking: This is exactly what he last saw.”
When she landed, Erika insisted on seeing Charlie’s body even though law enforcement advised against it. A sheriff warned her the bullet had “ravaged” his neck, but she responded firmly that she wanted to "see what they did to [her] husband.”
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She described the scene as searing but also strangely peaceful. Charlie’s eyes were half-open, and, she said, “And he had this knowing, Mona Lisa-like half-smile. Like he died happy. Like Jesus rescued him. The bullet came, he blinked, and he was in heaven.”
More than 200,000 mourners attended Kirk’s memorial in Glendale, Arizona on Sunday, September 21, including President Donald Trump, who shared an embrace with the widow before he gave eulogy — calling the late political activist an “American hero.”
Also at the memorial, Erika gave an emotional speech that left mourners in tears. “He wanted to save young men. Just like the one who took his life,” she said from the stage, referring to her husband’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson. Choosing forgiveness over anger, she added, “I forgive him because it was what Christ did. And what Charlie would do.” She also rejected calls for the death penalty Robinson, explaining, “I do not want that man’s blood on my ledger. Because when I get to heaven, and Jesus is like: ‘Uh, eye for an eye? Is that how we do it?’ And that keeps me from being in heaven, from being with Charlie?”
Charlie was fatally shot on September 10 while giving a speech at the Utah univeristy. He was transported to a local hospital where later died.
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