Charlie Kirk’s spouse, Erika Kirk, is recalling what she advised their 3-year-old daughter after his loss of life.
“After I bought residence final night time Gigi, our daughter, simply bumped into my arms and I talked to her and she or he mentioned, ‘Mommy i miss you’ and I mentioned I miss you too child and she or he goes, ‘The place’s daddy?’ How do you inform a 3 yr outdated? She’s 3,” Erika, 36, mentioned in a stay stream through Charlie’s X account on Friday, September 12.
“And I mentioned, ‘Daddy loves you a lot child he’s on a piece journey with Jesus so he can afford your blueberry finances,’” she continued.
Erika broke her silence Friday, two days after Kirk was shot throughout a talking occasion for his American Comeback Tour at Utah Valley College in Orem, Utah. His right-wing nonprofit, Turning Level USA, later confirmed that Charlie had died on the age of 31.
The previous Miss Arizona USA mentioned that Charlie, whom she married in 2021, cherished his household and being a husband and father to Gigi and their 1-year-old son.
“Most of all Charlie cherished his youngsters and he cherished me with all of his coronary heart and I knew that on a regular basis. He made positive I knew that on a regular basis,” she continued. “On a regular basis he would ask me, ‘How can I serve you higher? How can I be a greater husband? How can I be a greater father?’”
Erika mentioned, “I do know my husband continues to be right here. He’s watching over us. I don’t bear in mind the final time I slept. I couldn’t sleep final night time.”
“Charlie child, Charlie I promise I’ll by no means let your legacy die child I gained’t,” she continued. “Oh, Charlie I really like you. I really like you child. Relaxation within the arms of our lord as he blankets you with the phrases I do know your coronary heart all the time strives to listen to. Nicely carried out my good and trustworthy servant.”
On Wednesday, September 10, a gunman fired a single shot that appeared to strike Charlie within the neck as he sat underneath a tent emblazoned with the phrases, “Show Me Unsuitable.”
Legislation enforcement introduced on Friday that the suspected shooter, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, who’s from Utah and never affiliated with any political social gathering, was taken into custody. The identical day that Kirk was murdered, a faculty taking pictures in Evergreen, Colorado critically injured two highschool college students.
Throughout his profession as a extremely profitable conservative commentator, Kirk championed gun rights and the Second Modification, saying at a Turning Level USA occasion in 2023, “I feel it’s price to have a value of, sadly, some gun deaths each single yr in order that we will have the Second Modification to guard our different God-given rights.”
