In a raw and emotional exclusive interview with The New York Times, Erika Kirk, the widow of slain conservative powerhouse Charlie Kirk, opened up about the devastating loss of her husband, who was gunned down just eight days earlier during a campus debate at Utah Valley University.
Kirk was the founder of Turning Point USA before his life was tragically cut short by an assassin, and now Erika is stepping into his shoes as the organization’s new CEO, determined to ensure his name and mission live on forever.
Erika, 36, a former Miss Arizona and entrepreneur, was at her mother’s bedside in the hospital when she received the shattering call from Charlie’s assistant. By the time she rushed to Provo, Utah, her husband was gone.
The New York Times reports:
The sheriff met her in the hospital. He offered her the option of seeing the body but, she said, advised against it. The bullet, he explained, had ravaged Mr. Kirk’s neck.
“With all due respect,” Ms. Kirk remembered saying, “I want to see what they did to my husband.”
She was braced for the worst, but what she saw surprised her. “His eyes were semi-open,” Ms. Kirk said. “And he had this knowing, Mona Lisa-like half-smile. Like he’d died happy. Like Jesus rescued him. The bullet came, he blinked, and he was in heaven.”
She had not been able to kiss him goodbye when he left the house earlier that morning. She did so then.
Mrs. Kirk told the paper that sometimes she has been able “to see the Bible in such technicolor. To be so serene in saying, ‘Thy will be done. I surrender to it.’ Do I like it? No. That was the love of my life, my soul mate, my best friend. But God’s plan is always greater than ours.”
“I’m a strong believer that this was God’s plan,” she said. “And it’s so clear-cut. It couldn’t be more Charlie.”
Asked if she had requested prosecutors seek the death penalty, Mrs. Kirk said:
“I’ve had so many people ask, ‘Do you feel anger toward this man? Like, do you want to seek the death penalty?’ I’ll be honest. I told our lawyer, I want the government to decide this. I do not want that 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?”
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