Simply days after a gunman shot and killed conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at a Utah college, his spouse, Erika, delivers her first public remarks on Friday evening.
Her deal with started streaming reside at 8:15 p.m. ET on the social media platforms of Turning Level USA, the group Kirk based.
Charlie Kirk was husband to Erika and the daddy of two younger youngsters on the time of his loss of life on Wednesday, a 1-year-old son and a 3-year-old daughter.
The founding father of the conservative youth activist group was shot whereas talking at Utah Valley College, the primary cease this fall for Turning Level USA’s “The American Comeback Tour,” which was touring to a number of school campuses throughout the nation.
In what has been described as a “political assassination,” Kirk was struck by a single shot whereas he was talking on the occasion on Wednesday. He was rushed to an space hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless.
Charlie Kirk and and his spouse Erika Lane Frantzve through the Turning Level USA Inaugural-Eve Ball, January 19, 2025 in Washington.
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President Donald Trump introduced Kirk’s loss of life on social media, writing, “The Nice, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is lifeless.”
“Nobody understood or had the Coronary heart of the Youth in america of America higher than Charlie. He was cherished and admired by ALL, particularly me, and now, he’s now not with us,” the president wrote. “Melania and my Sympathies exit to his stunning spouse Erika, and household. Charlie, we love you!”
When Utah Gov. Spencer Cox introduced at a Friday press convention the arrest of a suspect within the taking pictures, he spoke of Charlie Kirk’s household.
“I particularly wish to thank the household of Charlie Kirk — Erika, Charlie’s mother and father, his kids,” Cox mentioned. “I would like us to be pondering of them as we deliver justice on this case. They are going to be concerned in that justice. We shall be working very carefully with them as we transfer by means of this course of as properly.”
Erika Kirk is a former Miss Arizona USA and collegiate basketball participant who’s at present finding out for a doctorate in Biblical research at Liberty College, in accordance with a biography on her web site.
She is the founding father of Proclaim, a faith-based clothes line, the host of the “Midweek Rise Up” podcast and the founding father of two nonprofit organizations, in accordance with her web site.
Erika Kirk has additionally been a frequent presence by her husband’s facet at talking engagements and public appearances.
