Charlie Kirk’s Widow Erika Recalls Seeing Late Husband’s ‘Smirk’ in Hospital Following Assassination

In a heartbreaking interview, Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk remembered the moment she saw her late husband in the hospital following his assassination.

“When we walked into that room … he had this smirk on his face,” she told Fox News’ Jesse Watters through tears on Wednesday, November 5. “That smirk, that smirk to me is that look of, ‘You thought you could stop what I’ve built. You thought you could end 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.’”

The right-wing political activist, 31, was shot and killed on Wednesday, September 10 during the first stop of his American Comeback speaking tour in Orem, Utah.

The alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, was later arrested and charged with multiple counts, including aggravated murder. According to CNN, prosecutors will be seeking the death penalty.

Kirk’s widow, however, has found forgiveness through faith.

“On the cross, our Savior said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they not know what they do.’ That man, that young man … I forgive him,” she declared at a memorial service for the father of two in September. “I forgive him because it was what Christ did, and it’s what Charlie would do.”

“The answer to hate is not hate,” she continued. “The answer we know from the gospel is love and always love. Love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us.”