Erika Kirk shares the details of seeing her husband Charlie Kirk’s body after his fatal shooting at Utah Valley University on September 10
Erika Kirk, the widow of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, is opening up about the moment she saw her husband’s body after he was fatally shot.
“His eyes were semi-open,” Erika, 36, told The New York Times in an interview published on Sunday, September 21, her first since her husband was shot and killed on September 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University. He was 31.
“And he had this knowing, Mona Lisa-like half-smike,” Erika continued. “Like he died happy. Like Jesus rescued him. The bullet came, he blinked, and he was in heaven.”
Erika told the outlet she was supposed to accompany her husband to Utah for what was his first stop on a nationwide tour, but stayed behind in Arizona to help her mother, who was receiving medical treatment in a Phoenix hospital. She was at her mother’s bedside when she received a call from her husband’s assistant, Michael McCoy, who screamed, “He’s been shot!”
The mother of two — a 3-year-old daughter and a 1-year-old son — was on her husband’s chartered plane, headed to Provo, Utah, when she was told he had been pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
