{"id":929,"date":"2025-09-22T13:03:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:06:09","slug":"erika-kirk-shares-3-word-message-to-alleged-killer-at-husband-charlies-memorial-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"Erika Kirk Shares 3-Word Message to Alleged Killer at Husband Charlie&#8217;s Memorial Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">At a memorial service for Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on September 21, 2025, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, his widow, Erika Kirk, delivered a poignant speech. Before 90,000 attendees, she shared the devastating moment she saw her husband\u2019s body after his fatal shooting on September 10, 2025, at Utah Valley University. Erika recounted a tender, previously unspoken detail about noticing a single gray hair on Charlie\u2019s head, saying, \u201cNow he knows,\u201d with a tearful smile. In a stunning moment, she addressed his alleged killer, stating, \u201cI forgive him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Erika described the ordinary morning before the tragedy, when Charlie left for his \u201cAmerican Comeback\u201d tour in Utah. She stayed in Phoenix for her mother\u2019s medical procedure, texting Charlie, \u201cI love you.\u201d At 11:23 a.m., she learned he\u2019d been shot. At the hospital, Erika insisted on seeing him, finding peace in his serene expression, describing a \u201cMona Lisa-like half-smile\u201d as if he died content.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The shooting, from 200 yards away, prompted a campus lockdown and a federal investigation. No suspect is in custody, with fears of a skilled, elusive shooter. Witnesses, initially confused, descended into panic, unsure if more shots would follow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FULL SPEECH: Erika Kirk speaks at Charlie Kirk memorial service\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JJyUV3t5310?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a memorial service for Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on September 21, 2025, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, his widow, Erika Kirk, delivered a poignant speech. Before 90,000 attendees, she shared the devastating moment she saw her husband\u2019s body after his fatal shooting on September 10, 2025, at Utah Valley University. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dfdddddddd.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}