Erika Kirk thank you the crowd for the stadium for honored the founder of Turning Point USA

Erika Kirk, the widow of the founder of Turning Point Usa killed, Charlie Kirk, remembered her husband’s inheritance during a memorial for him on Sunday – and revealed her thoughts on her alleged assassin.

Tyler Robinson, the 22 -year -old suspect, accused of the death of Charlie Kirk on September 10, looked a lot like the other young men whom Charlie Kirk met, said Erika Kirk.

Charlie Kirk “wanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life,” she said.

“Our Savior said:” Father, forgive them because they don’t know what they are doing. “This young man … I forgive him,” said Erika Kirk. “I forgive him because that was what Christ did, and that’s what Charlie would do.”

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Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, arrives on stage to speak during the public commemorative service for the political activist Charlie Kirk at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on September 21, 2025. (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)

Addressing a crowd at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, Erika Kirk thanked the public for having honored her husband.

She started her speech by quoting one of Charlie Kirk’s favorite biblical verses, Isaiah 6: 8: “Here I am, Lord. Send me” and remembers when Charlie Kirk repeated it at the end of a conference.

“After Charlie finished, I met him behind the scenes and I told her about it … I said, Charlie, baby, please tell me next time before saying this statement,” she said.

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“Because when you say something like that, there is so much power in this verse … God will take you on it, and he did.”

Charlie Kirk was quickly urgently transported to the hospital after being killed at the University of Utah Valley in Orem, Utah, on September 10. During her Sunday memorial, Erika Kirk described the moment when she arrived to “do the unthinkable” and see her husband’s corpse.

“I look (Ed) directly on my husband’s murdered body,” she said. “I saw the injury that ended his life. I felt everything you expected to feel. I felt a shock. I felt horror and a level of grief that I did not even know.”

“But there was something else too. Even in death, I could see the man I love. I saw the only gray hair on the side of his head, which I never told him about,” she laughed. “Now he knows. Sorry, baby, tell you now.”

Erika Kirk speaks during her husband’s commemorative service, political activist Charlie Kirk, at State Farm Stadium on September 21, 2025, in Glendale, Arizona. (Win McNamee / Getty images)

Erika Kirk added that she felt “the great mercy of God” in the death of her husband when she saw her body and saw a slight smile.

“I also saw on her lips the slightest smile … It told me that Charlie had not suffered. Even the doctor told me that it was something so instantaneous that even if Charlie had been shot in the operating room … Nothing could have been done. There was no pain.”

Erika Kirk also talked about their marriage, revealing the private ritual which kept strong even in the middle of the constant trip of her husband.

“Someone asked me once how Charlie and I thought we were keeping our wedding so hard when he was busy traveling,” she said. “Our little secret: it was love notes. Every Saturday, Charlie wrote one for me, and he never missed a Saturday.”

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Erika Kirk also talked about their marriage, revealing the private ritual which kept strong even in the middle of the constant trip of her husband. (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)

“And in each of them, he told me what his highest point was for the week, how grateful he was for me and our babies,” she added. “And always at the end, he would always end up asking the most beautiful question:” Please let me know how I can serve you better as a husband. “”

Above all, Erika Kirk underlined the faith of her husband and how he practiced her Christian faith, revealing that he loved a journalist to remember the important moments of her life.

“And one of the things he wrote in his newspaper was:” Whenever you make a decision, it puts a mark on your soul “”, she said. “To those of you who have just made this decision and took the first step towards a spiritual life, I say thank you and welcome.”

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk is represented with his wife Erika Kirk on stage during an event earlier in 2025 in Phoenix. (Samuel Corum / Getty Images)

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She also pointed out how Charlie Kirk did “100% of what he could every day” and that he left the earth “without regrets”.

“There was nothing that was too hard or too painful or nothing that he just had the impression that he did not want to do,” she said.

“Charlie died with incomplete work, but not with unfinished business,” she said. “And I will miss it. I will miss it so much. Because our wedding and our family were beautiful.”

Erika Kirk, on the right, concluded by saying that she was honored to be the new CEO of Turning Point USA and that her husband’s mission “is my mission”. (Samuel Corum / Getty Images)

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Towards the end of her speech, the widow concluded by saying that she was honored to be the new CEO of Turning Point USA and that her husband’s mission “is my mission”.

“All that Turning Point USA built through Charlie’s vision and hard work, we are going to increase ten times by the power of his memory,” said Erika Kirk.

“No assassin will prevent us from getting up to defend these rights.”