Erika Kirk is opening up about the heartbreaking final moments before her husband, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, was assassinated earlier this month.
In an emotional interview with The New York Times, Erika revealed the last message she sent Charlie the morning he left for Provo, Utah, to launch his campus tour.
“He got up and I could hear him eating something in the kitchen. He’d been waiting all summer to begin touring,” she recalled. Because he left so early, she didn’t get to kiss him goodbye — instead, she sent a simple text: “I love you.”
Hours later, Charlie, 31, was fatally shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University.
The Flight She’ll Never Forget
When Charlie’s longtime assistant, Michael McCoy, called to say her husband had been shot, Erika immediately boarded a plane from Arizona to Utah.
Mid-flight, she learned the devastating news that Charlie had died. “I’m looking at the clouds and the mountains,” she remembered. “It was such a gorgeous day, and I was thinking: This is exactly what he last saw.”
Saying Goodbye
At the hospital, a sheriff warned Erika not to view her husband’s body, describing the damage the bullet had done. But she insisted: “With all due respect, I want to see what they did to my husband.”
She described Charlie’s final appearance in haunting but hopeful terms. “His eyes were semi-open. And he had this knowing, Mona Lisa-like half-smile. Like he’d die happy. Like Jesus rescued him. The bullet came, he blinked, and he was in heaven.”
Choosing Faith Over Anger
Since the tragedy, Erika has leaned heavily on her Christian faith. She admitted many have asked whether she seeks the death penalty for the accused shooter, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, who turned himself in two days later.
Her response was clear: “I do not want this 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?”
Carrying Charlie’s Legacy
Despite her unimaginable loss, Erika says she is choosing to grieve fully, without numbing her pain. “I’m allowing myself to feel this so deeply, without medication, without alcohol,” she shared. “The Lord is giving me discernment.”
Her final words to Charlie, “I love you,” now stand as both a goodbye and a promise to carry his memory forward.
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