Erika Kirk: Charlie Kirk’s widow reveals moment she found out he had been assassinated

Erika Kirk has tearfully recounted the traumatic moment she found out her right wing influencer husband Charlie had been fatally shot in the neck at a college rally.

In a deeply emotional sit-down interview, her first since the assassination that rocked the United States, Mrs Kirk revealed she had never watched the video of shooting at Utah Valley University on September 10, and had no plans to.

“I never saw the video, I never will see it,” she told Jesse Watters Primetime on Fox.

“I never want to see it, there are certain things you see in your life that you can never unsee. There are certain things you see in your life that mark your soul forever. I don’t want my husband’s public assassination to be something I ever see. I don’t want my kids to ever see that.”

Mrs Kirk said he had been looking forward to speaking at the Turning Point USA event and their last interaction was that morning in their Arizona home.

“He came in and he grabbed that (wedding ring and necklace) and then he left. I didn’t even get to give him a kiss goodbye”.

Sadly, she would later get to do that as he lay lifeless in a Utah hospital.

Mrs Kirk stayed behind to take her sick mother to the doctor. Moments after she watched a video of Charlie throwing hats into the crowd at the event, she received the phone call that would forever change her life and that of her children.

“Mikey (McCoym, Turning Point chief of staff) called me,” she said. “I’ll never forget, him just being like, Charlie’s been shot. He’s been shot, get the kids. Get security, get the kids, get the kids, he’s been shot. I sprinted out of her treatment centre and just collapsed in the middle of the parking lot.”

“The way the bullet hit him, he died instantaneously,” Kirk explained. “He died on the scene. But I’m so glad he didn’t suffer, I’m so glad he didn’t suffer.

“No one deserves to suffer, but a handful of people. He literally blinked and probably thought he was raptured and looked around and was like, where’s everybody else? He blinked, and he was with the Lord.”

When she arrived in Utah, Mrs Kirk said, she went straight to the hospital to see his body, despite advice from doctors and a police officer to wait until he was at a mortuary, given his volent death.

“I responded back to him and I 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 get to give him a kiss this morning,” she explained.

“I’m just so glad I saw him because… when you see someone at the mortuary, they never look the same,” Kirk reflected. “They have awful makeup and they’re cold. He was still warm, and his eyes were slightly open. It was so powerful, Jesse. He had this smirk on his face.”

“That smirk to me is that look of: ‘you thought you could stop what I’ve built’,” she reflected. “This vision, this movement, this revival, you thought you could do that by murdering me. You got my body. You didn’t get my soul.”

Mr Kirk’s alleged assassin, 22-year-old Utah man Tyler Robinson, is behind bars awaiting trial for his murder.