Simply days after a gunman shot and killed conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at a Utah college, his spouse, Erika, is ready to ship her first public remarks on Friday evening.
Her tackle can be streamed dwell 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 children 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 faculty 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 useless.
Charlie Kirk and and his spouse Erika Lane Frantzve in the course of 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 useless.”
“Nobody understood or had the Coronary heart of the Youth in the US of America higher than Charlie. He was beloved and admired by ALL, particularly me, and now, he’s not with us,” the president wrote. “Melania and my Sympathies exit to his lovely 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 capturing, he spoke of Charlie Kirk’s household.
“I particularly need to thank the household of Charlie Kirk — Erika, Charlie’s mother and father, his youngsters,” Cox stated. “I need us to be considering of them as we deliver justice on this case. They are going to be concerned in that justice. We can be working very carefully with them as we transfer by this course of as effectively.”
Erika Kirk is a former Miss Arizona USA and collegiate basketball participant who’s at present learning for a doctorate in Biblical research at Liberty College, in keeping 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 keeping with her web site.
Erika Kirk has additionally been a frequent presence by her husband’s facet at talking engagements and public appearances.
